A contemporary Korean painting artist Juheon Cho is from Seoul. She received two separate degrees in Korean traditional painting/ Fine art and printmaking from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul and studied her masters in Fine art at Goldsmiths University of London. Her interest is on Korean traditional deep colour painting(진채화), commodification of personal narrative, self restoration through drawing, diaspora, the value of artisanal labour.
After the study, she worked as an artist traveling back and forth between the UK and Korea, she had six solo exhibitions starting with her first solo exhibition ‘The Little boy and a toxic Land (The 5th base gallery/London)’ in 2015 and was invited to ‘Tamed by spectacle - the opaqueness of image (The muse at 269 Gallery/London)’, ‘A spectacle fever ; media between real and digital (Gallery Dos/Seoul)’, ‘Flat digital (Chungmuro Media Center/Seoul)’, ‘Memories ; Obersee (Villa Heike/Berlin), ‘@project.dear.diary (Junghyun Gallery, Wrocław, Poland)’.
She had invited and collaborated with Exhibitions and collaborations with other artists at ‘DIGITDISCO: THE BODY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL (The showroom/London), ‘Media Ecstasy (Art Museum KNU/Daegu)’, ‘Future with Arts (Daegu art factory/Daegu)’, ‘Geeky Zone (K Museum of contemporary art/Seoul)’ as well as many other exhibitions. After returning to Seoul from London, she taught ‘contemporary art research’ class and ‘fine art painting’ at Daegu University and Kyungbook National University, and currently lives and works as an artist in Berlin, Germany.
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Juheon Cho focuses on the artist's reflections on their daily experiences as an outsider living in Berlin. A drawing project ‘@project.dear.diary’ - It highlights the artist's practice of capturing daily sensations of nature, people, and the world through shapes, textures, and colours in her 140 drawings. This process is not just observational but involves active engagement with her foreign self-identity and artistic identity, emphasising her role not as a bystander but as an active participant in her own environment and unveiling pathways for self-reconstruction and progression.
140 number of her drawings are transformed by creating the ‘Mind-scape (@a.work.towards.incomplete)'. In the process of creating Mind-scape paintings, drawings lose their narrative, becoming patterned and commoditised. This fragmentation reduces them to elements of colour, shape, and texture, erasing their original narrative significance. It explores the cycles of personal narratives becoming commodified.
From the ‘@a.work.towards.incomplete’ The artist also uses the power of incompleteness, creating a narrative where the artistic process itself, with transitory sketch lines and intentionally unpainted segments, becomes a testament to their continual involvement. This deliberate state of incompletion invites the audience to be aware of the artist's labour beyond the artwork.
Currently at StudiosID. Berlin.
EDUCATION
2015 Goldsmiths University of London / MFA Fine Art
2011 Feb EWHA WOMENS UNIVERSITY, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Fine Art (Hons.)
2010 Feb EWHA WOMENS UNIVERSITY, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Korean Painting (Hons.)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021-2022 Dec-Jan Memories ; Obersee, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2018 Nov Flat digital, Chungmuro Media Centre, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 Aug A Spectacle Fever; media between real and digital, GalleryDOS, Seoul, S. Korea
2016-2017 Dec Tamed by spectacle-the opaqueness of image, The Muse at 269 gallery, London, UK
2015 Nov The little boy and a toxic land, 5th base Gallery, London, UK
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION.EVENT.OPEN STUDIO
2024 Feb The Incorrigible Drawing Club. 2, LADIES DRAWING CLÜB, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 Dec Art works, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
2023 Sep ‘Letter from the East’, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Berlin, Germany
2022 Jun BBA Art Exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2022 Aug ‘SEOUL’, MKW curated, Berlin, Germany
2020 Sep ‘Lange Nacht der Bilder-Open studio’, Studio ID, Germany
2019 Sep 4482 [sasapari], Celo art space, Seoul, S. Korea
2019 Apr Harmony Art Exchange Program, Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018 Sep Sunny Art Exhibition, Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
2018 May 'Geeky Zone', K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 Nov 'Media Ecstasy', KMU Art Museum, Daegu, S. Korea
2017 Nov ‘Future with arts’, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, S. Korea
2017 Feb ‘Overlapping Space’, Guruji Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2016 Oct “Revolution”, University of Suffolk- cafe Siena, Ipswich, UK
2016 Jul Petta Fiesta Exhibition - Print making part, Pettaugh, Ipswich, UK
2015 Sep A selection of talented graduates, VJB Arts, London, UK
2015 Jul Goldsmiths MFA degree show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2015 Mar ‘DIGITDISCO:THE BODY IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL’, The show room, London, UK
2014 Jul Interim Show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2014 Feb 4482 [sasapari] Symposium, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
2011 Sep SHASHA, Gongpyung Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2011 Aug ASYAAF, Hongik University Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2011 Jul Her Story , Samchung Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Nov EWHA KOREAN PAINTING, EHWA Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Aug ASYAAF, Sungshin University Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Mar Hong Kong Modern Art Fair, Hong Kong
2010 Jan 2010 Selected New Artists, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, S. Korea
2009 Nov EWHA PAINTING, EWHA art center, Seoul, S. Korea
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
March 2016 to February 2019 - Name of University, Daegu University : Lecturer on Contemporary Art
-Course: Researching Contemporary Art, 2nd Year Students.
March 2018 to February 2019 - Name of University, Kyungpook National University : Lecturer on Fine Art
-Course: Expressing Technique, 3rd Year Students.
January 2016 to December 2018 - JCC : Lecturer on Fine Art
-Course: Art History (Hellenism-Cinquecento Renaissance)
-Course: Contemporary Art and Humanity
-Course: Time, Sense and memory
-Course: Fossil and Past
EDUCATION
2015 Goldsmiths University of London / MFA Fine Art
2011 Feb EWHA WOMENS UNIVERSITY, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Fine Art (Hons.)
2010 Feb EWHA WOMENS UNIVERSITY, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Korean Painting (Hons.)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 Feb @project.dear.diary, Junghyun Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2021-2022 Dec-Jan Memories ; Obersee, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2018 Nov Flat digital, Chungmuro Media Centre, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 Aug A Spectacle Fever; media between real and digital, GalleryDOS, Seoul, S. Korea
2016-2017 Dec Tamed by spectacle-the opaqueness of image, The Muse at 269 gallery, London, UK
2015 Nov The little boy and a toxic land, 5th base Gallery, London, UK
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION.EVENT.OPEN STUDIO
2024 Feb The Incorrigible Drawing Club. 2, LADIES DRAWING CLÜB, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 Dec Art works, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
2023 Sep ‘Letter from the East’, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Berlin, Germany
2022 Jun BBA Art Exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2022 Aug ‘SEOUL’, MKW curated, Berlin, Germany
2021 Sep ‘Unblock.Berlin’, Studio ID, Germany
2021 Sep ‘Lange Nacht der Bilder 2021’, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Germany
2021 Sep ‘Lange Nacht der Bilder 2021’, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Germany
2020 Sep ‘Lange Nacht der Bilder-Open studio’, Studio ID, Germany
2019 Sep 4482 [sasapari], Celo art space, Seoul, S. Korea
2019 Apr Harmony Art Exchange Program, Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018 Sep Sunny Art Exhibition, Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
2018 May 'Geeky Zone', K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 Nov 'Media Ecstasy', KMU Art Museum, Daegu, S. Korea
2017 Nov ‘Future with arts’, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, S. Korea
2017 Feb ‘Overlapping Space’, Guruji Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2016 Oct “Revolution”, University of Suffolk- cafe Siena, Ipswich, UK
2016 Jul Petta Fiesta Exhibition - Print making part, Pettaugh, Ipswich, UK
2015 Sep A selection of talented graduates, VJB Arts, London, UK
2015 Jul Goldsmiths MFA degree show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2015 Mar ‘DIGITDISCO:THE BODY IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL’, The show room, London, UK
2014 Jul Interim Show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2014 Feb 4482 [sasapari] Symposium, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
2011 Sep SHASHA, Gongpyung Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2011 Aug ASYAAF, Hongik University Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2011 Jul Her Story , Samchung Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Nov EWHA KOREAN PAINTING, EHWA Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Aug ASYAAF, Sungshin University Art Center, Seoul, S. Korea
2010 Mar Hong Kong Modern Art Fair, Hong Kong
2010 Jan 2010 Selected New Artists, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, S. Korea
2009 Nov EWHA PAINTING, EWHA art center, Seoul, S. Korea
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
March 2016 to February 2019 - Name of University, Daegu University : Lecturer on Contemporary Art
-Course: Researching Contemporary Art, 2nd Year Students.
March 2018 to February 2019 - Name of University, Kyungpook National University : Lecturer on Fine Art
-Course: Expressing Technique, 3rd Year Students.
January 2016 to December 2018 - JCC : Lecturer on Fine Art
-Course: Art History (Hellenism-Cinquecento Renaissance)
-Course: Contemporary Art and Humanity
-Course: Time, Sense and memory
-Course: Fossil and Past
AWARD
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
2018 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
2009 Korea Art Competition - Special Mention
National competition for over 20 artists to exhibit their work. Competing in oil painting category.
2009 Korea Art Competition - Special Mention
National competition for over 20 artists to exhibit their work. Competing in traditional Korean painting category.
INTERVIEW. PUBLIC TALK. PRESS RELEASE
2023 Suzy Royal, Lange Nacht der Bilder 2023-Meet the artist at the studio
2023 Kim-Min ju, KOFICE (Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange)
(https://kofice.or.kr/c30correspondent/c30_correspondent_02_view.asp?seq=22763)
2023 Kim-Chang man, Global Epic News. (http://www.globalepic.co.kr/view.php?ud=202301251146551477f6c6bd0e60_29)
2022 Two room Magazine, No.19, ‘Space of Women artists in Berlin.’
2022 The Muse Letter January 2022 (https://issuu.com/yourmuseat269/docs/museletter_january2022.15.01)
2021 ArtConnect Magazine
(https://www.magazine.artconnect.com/juheon-cho)
2021 Hue & Eye Magazine (https://www.hueandeye.org/juheon-cho/)
2021 Oh -Ju young, Woman Daily. (http://m.womandaily.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=65905)
2020 Kulturring Berlin, (https://youtu.be/E8_hkGfaE9M)
2018 Sung-Jae Kim, The Kyoung Buk Daily
(http://www.kbsm.net/default/index_view_page.php?idx=193988)
2018 Ji- Hyae Kim, The Daegu Daily
(http://www.idaegu.com/?c=7&uid=376229)
2018 Mi- Hyang Choi, The Art Korea Broadcast
(http://www.artkoreatv.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=34643)
2018 Jin- Bum Cho, The Young Nam Daily,
(http://www.yeongnam.com/mnews/newsview.do?mode=newsView&newskey=20180110.010220803210001)
2017 Bo-a Choi, Kyoung Sang Daily News
(http://www.ksmnews.co.kr/default/index_view_page.php?idx=188829&part_idx=383)
2017 Jae-Bum Kim, UP Korea
(http://www.upkorea.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=101661#07Pk)
2017 Suk-Jin Kim, The Global News
(http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=669616)
2017 The Niji Magazine, Meet The Artis
2016 The STATE Magazine, No.23, 'Hot and Cool Art'
2016 Hee-jeong Yoon, The Kyoung Buk Daily
(http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=609515)
2016 Un-young Paik, The Global News
(http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=609515)
2016 Min-kyeoung Kim, The Munhwa News
(http://www.munhwanews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=31731)
2010 Chae-gang Lee, The EWHA Weekly, Vol.1382, September
2010 Jung-mi Son, The Chosun Daily Newspaper, Vol.27887, August.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
2016-2018 JCC ART CENTER
Position: Co-Founder and owner
It is a experimental contemporary art institution, alternative cultural space and artist studio located in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
2022- CHO & HEATH Studio/Gallery
Posotion: Co-founder and Director
Posotion: Co-founder and Director
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2024 Jan “Dark Skies, Wild Seas: Cot Valley Group Artist Residency”, Cornwall, UK
COLLECTION
Private collections
(London, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Busan, Gyeonggi-do, Los Angeles, Berlin, Hong Kong)
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
COLLABORATIONS
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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