Juheon Cho (b. 1987, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist and professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Kyungpook National University, working between Seoul, Daegu, and Berlin. She holds two BFA degrees in Western Painting and Korean Painting from Ewha Womans University and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Working primarily with drawing-based painting, Cho explores how personal emotions shaped by movement between different cities and cultural environments, including Seoul, Newcastle, Oslo, Gangneung, London, Berlin, and Daegu, extend into broader social and political sensibilities.
Her practice begins with small, specific moments encountered in everyday life: conversations, landscapes, events, and experiences drawn from her own life and those of people around her. The emotions experienced by individuals occupying different social positions—as women, people of colour, Northeast Asians, migrants, people in international marriages, those working away from their home countries, women living apart from their families, young female educators, and artists—may manifest as cultural anxiety, isolation, sadness, or anger, but also as solidarity, joy, beauty, and harmony.
Rather than confining these emotions to personal narratives, Cho seeks to explore how individual lives intersect with broader social structures, and how we develop new senses of belonging and identity within unfamiliar environments.
Working primarily with drawing-based painting, Cho explores how personal emotions shaped by movement between different cities and cultural environments, including Seoul, Newcastle, Oslo, Gangneung, London, Berlin, and Daegu, extend into broader social and political sensibilities.
Her practice begins with small, specific moments encountered in everyday life: conversations, landscapes, events, and experiences drawn from her own life and those of people around her. The emotions experienced by individuals occupying different social positions—as women, people of colour, Northeast Asians, migrants, people in international marriages, those working away from their home countries, women living apart from their families, young female educators, and artists—may manifest as cultural anxiety, isolation, sadness, or anger, but also as solidarity, joy, beauty, and harmony.
Rather than confining these emotions to personal narratives, Cho seeks to explore how individual lives intersect with broader social structures, and how we develop new senses of belonging and identity within unfamiliar environments.
EDUCATION
1987 Born in Seoul, South Korea
2010 BFA in Painting, Ewha Womans University
2011 BFA in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University
2015 MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2020 MA in Visual & Experience Design, University of Applied Sciences Europe, (degree not awarded)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 A Work Towards Coexistence, Peyto Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
The Dream of Coexistence, Flat Pot, Seoul, S. Korea
2024 To Live Like the Way I Paint, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023 @project.dear.diary, Junghyun Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2021-2022 Memories ; Obersee, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2018 Flat digital, Chungmuro Media Centre, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 A Spectacle Fever; media between real and digital, GalleryDOS, Seoul, S. Korea
2016 Tamed by spectacle-the opaqueness of image, The Muse at 269 gallery, London, UK
2015 The little boy and a toxic land, 5th base Gallery, London, UK
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION
2026 Where the Artists Stand, GlogauAir Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2025 The Joy of Life, Peyto Gallery, Seoul, S.Korea
2024 Pieces of Us, Dohing Art Gallery, Seoul, S.Korea
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Nature’s Veil, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Incorrigible Drawing Club. 2, LADIES DRAWING CLÜB, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 Art works, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
Letter from the East, Lichtenberg/Studio ID,Berlin, Germany
2022 BBA Art Prize Exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2022, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Germany
SEOUL, MKW curated, Berlin, Germany
2021 Unblock.Berlin, Studio ID, Germany
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2021, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Germany
2020 Lange Nacht der Bilder 2020, Studio ID, Germany
2019 4482 [sasapari], Celo art space, Seoul, S. Korea
2019 Harmony Art Exchange Program, Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018 Sunny Art Exhibition, Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
Geeky Zone, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 Media Ecstasy, KMU Art Museum, Daegu, S. Korea
Future with arts, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, S. Korea
Overlapping Space, Guguji Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2016 Revolution, University of Suffolk- cafe Siena, Ipswich, UK
Petta Fiesta Exhibition - Print making part, Pettaugh, Ipswich, UK
2015 A selection of talented graduates, VJB Arts, London, UK
Goldsmiths MFA degree show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
DIGITDISCO:THE BODY IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL, The show room, London, UK
2014 Interim Show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
4482 [sasapari] Symposium, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
2010 EWHA KOREAN PAINTING, EHWA Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2009 EWHA PAINTING, EWHA art center, Seoul, S. Korea
AWARD
2024 Jackson’s Art Prize - Special mention
2023 Barbican Arts Group Trust Prize - 3rd Prize
2022 BBA Art Prize - 3rd Prize
2021 ArtConnect Magazine - Artists to Watch 2021
2018 Sunny Art Award, London, UK - shortlisted
Chungmu-ro Media Centre public contest (Exhibition supported from Seoul city and Seoul media committee)
2017 GalleryDOS ‘The perfect application’ public contest
2010 ASYAAF - Grand Prize (Korean Painting)
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2024 Jan “Dark Skies, Wild Seas: Cot Valley Group Artist Residency”, Cornwall, UK
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
2016-2019 JCC ART STUDIO
Position: Co-Founder
It is a experimental contemporary art institution, alternative cultural educational space and artist studio located in Seoul.
2022-Present CHO & HEATH Art Space
Posotion: Co-founder
COLLECTION
Peyto Gallery
Hurs Gallery, London, UK
POP MY MIND Ltd, Ipswich, UK
Dechan, Seoul, S.Korea
IMM Investment Global, Hong Kong
YoungNam Law Firm, Deagu, S.Korea
Industrial Bank of Korea, Seoul, S.Korea
Private collections
(London, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Busan, Gyeonggi-do, Los Angeles, Berlin, Hong Kong, Wrocław)
COLLABORATION
2019 Team cats and Bears - Steam advertisement of digital game ‘Bubbles the Cat’
2018 Flat digital+Flat painting Ver.1 (Atom Land Ride), Game developer-Warren Heath
2017 Atom land ride (Let’s be innocent-disaster game Ver.1), Game developer-Warren Heath
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