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□ E-mail : chcho09@gmail.com
□ URL : www.youngjoocho.com
Youngjoo Cho is a Seoul-based artist who has worked in Paris and Berlin. In the meantime she has presented performance, installation, photography, video, sound, and dance in a variety of exhibitions and projects.
She has been interested in the theme of ‘Korean women in Korean society’ and has worked on the issue ‘irrationalities and inconveniences of social structures’. Cho has also been realizing performative projects that utilize children, teenagers, and middle-aged women and deal with gender issues, female identity, and female body images.
Education
2007 École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy Art (MA)
2005 École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy Art (BA)
2001 Sungkyunkwan University Art Education(BFA)
Selected Solo Exhibition
2020 Cotton era, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul
2020 Five Seasons, Seoullo Media Canvas, Seoul
2019 Mrs. Jellyby's magnifying glass, PLACEMAK LASER, Seoul
2016 Watery Madams, Korean Cultural Centre India, New Delhi
2014 Our little gender stories, Space Mass, Seoul
2013 Mild depressive episode, Corner Art Space, Seoul
Selected Collective Exhibition
2020 The 20th SongEun ArtAward Exhibition, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul
2020 MoCA X Busan X Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan
2020 We Are Linked, Stereo Vision, Seosomun Shrine History Museum
2020 Safe House, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA
2020 Look With Inward Eyes, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju
2020 Happiness Finds Me, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 Carpenter’s scene, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2019 Focus On X OVNI: Objectif Video Nice, Nice, France
2019 Marginalized Histories of Korean Women, University of Mary Washington, Phyllis Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Virginia, U.S.A.
2019 Un-wall, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2019 NaNa Land: It’s My World, Savina Museum
2018 The Arrival of New Women, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul
2018 Soft Power, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, South Korea
2018 Media Media, Seoul Cnavas, Seoul
2017 Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2017 Miss Lee and Mrs. Kim: The Story of Youngsook Lee and Sookja Kim, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2016 The City of Homeless, Organized by Arts Council Korea, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2015 Real DMZ, Organized by Art Sonje Center & Samuso, Ceorwon / Art Sonje Center, South Korea
2014 Gwangju Biennale: "Sweet Dew - Since 1980, Gwangju Folly, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 Emerging Artists Program , Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul
2012 Rebus New York City, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
2011 Sommer auf dem Balkon, Gallery Antje Wachs, Berlin
2009 Splendid Isolation-Goldrausch 2009, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Betanien, Berlin
2009 Power of Spoken Words ‘Import Export’, rum 46, Århus, Denmark
2008 Congress of Culture-Global Alien, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Betanien, Berlin
2007 Freedom of Speech-"Global Alien TV", Gallery Ssamsiespace, Seoul
2006 Made in Asia, 5th International Contemporary Art Festival 'Nuit Blanche', Le Divan du Monde, Paris
2006 Paris Tout Court, 4th International Short Cinema Festival of Paris, Paris
Awards
2020 The 20th SongEun ArtAward, Grand Prize
Residencies
2021 MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul
2020 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul
2017 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2015 Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon
2014 Hongti Art Center, Busan
2013-2014 Space Mass Residence program, Seoul
2010 Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi
2009 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Berlin
Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea
Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
Suwon Ipark Museum Of Art, Suwon, Korea
Feathers on lips
Single channel video, color, sound, 10mn 30sec, 2020
Three breaths
1 channel video, 8 channel sound,steel metal ducts, & performance, 12mn 37sec, 2020
Writing my body
Single channel video, color,sound, 10mn, 2019
Partly living
Multi-channel video, color,subtitles (Korean), 1~2mn each, 2019
DMG: Demilitarized Goddesses
Single channel video, color, sound, 8mn 51sc, DMZ: Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, 2015
