Juheon Cho

About

Juheon Cho (b. Seoul, South Korea) is a contemporary Korean painter whose practice centres on traditional Korean deep colour painting (진채화). Through this form of art, Cho explores themes such as the commodification of personal narrative, the possibility of self-restoration through drawing, diaspora and the value of artisanal labour.

Cho reflects on her personal experiences as an outsider living in Berlin. Her drawing project ‘@project.dear.diary’ consists of 140 drawings that capture daily sensations of nature, people and the world. The vivid and fluid quality of the shapes, textures and colours within the drawings involve an active engagement with her foreign self-identity and artistic identity. Cho emphasises her role as an active participant in her own environment and unveils pathways for self-reconstruction and progression. Her works are further transformed in the ‘Mind-scape’ paintings, where drawings lose their narrative. A process of fragmentation reduces the drawings to elements of colour, shape and texture. The significance of their original narratives is erased; as a result cycles of personal narratives become commodified. In ‘@a.work.towards.incomplete’, the power of incompleteness creates a narrative where the artistic process itself becomes a testament to continual involvement. The deliberate state of incompletion, achieved by transitory sketch lines and intentionally unpainted segments, invites the audience to be aware of the artist's labour beyond the artwork.

The artist currently lives and works in Berlin. Juheon Cho studied at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul (2010-11), from which she obtained two separate degrees in Korean traditional painting/ Fine Art and Printmaking. The artist then studied her masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London (2015). The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe as well as South Korea, and was part of the 2022 BBA Artist Prize group exhibition in Berlin.

Education

2015

Goldsmiths University of London / MFA Fine Art

2011

Feb Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Western Painting and printmaking

2010

Feb Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, S. Korea / BFA Korean Painting

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2023

@project.dear.diary, Jung Hyun Gallery, Wocław, Poland

2021-2022

Memories; Obersee, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany

2018

Flat digital, Chungmuro Media Centre, Seoul, S. Korea

2017

Spectacle Fever; media between real and digital, GalleryDOS, Seoul, S. Korea

2016-2017

Tamed by spectacle-the opaqueness of image, The Muse at 269 gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2024

Nature's Veil, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

Art. Works, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London. UK
Letter from the East, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Berlin, Germany
BBA Artist Prize 2023, BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2022

Lange Nacht der Bilder 2022, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Germany
SEOUL, MKW curated, Berlin, Germany

2021

Unblock.Berlin, Studio ID, Berlin, Germany
Lange Nacht der Bilder 2021, Lichtenberg/Studio ID, Berlin, Germany

2019

4482 [sasapari], Celo art space, Seoul, S. Korea
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
In us without us, KiMI ART, Seoul, S. Korea

2017

Media Ecstasy, Art Museum KNU, Daegu, S. Korea
Future with arts, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, S. Korea
Overlapping Space, Guruji Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea

2016

Revolution, University of Suffolk- cafe Siena, Ipswich, UK
Petta Fiesta Exhibition - Print making part, Pettaugh, Ipswich, UK

Awards & Residencies (Selected)

2024

Jan ‘Dark Skies, Wild Seas: Cot Valley Group Artist Residency’, Cornwall, UK

2023

Barbican Arts Group Trust Prize - 3rd Prize

2022

BBA Artist Prize - 3rd Prize

2021

ArtConnect Magazine - Artists to Watch 2021

2018

Sunny Art Award, London, UK - shortlisted
Chungmu-ro Media Centre public contest - Solo exhibition supported from Seoul city and Seoul media committee

2017

GalleryDOS ‘The perfect application’ public contest -Solo exhibition supported

Publications (Selected)

2023

Suzy Royal, Lange Nacht der Bilder 2023-Meet the artist at the studio
Kim-Min ju, KOFICE (Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange)
Kim-Chang man, Global Epic News.

2022

Two room Magazine, No.19, ‘Space of Women artists in Berlin.’
‘Lange Nacht der Bilde 2022’

2021

ArtConnect Magazine
Hue & Eye Magazine
Oh -Ju young, Woman Daily

2020

Kulturring Berlin

2018

Sung-Jae Kim, The Kyoung Buk Daily
Ji- Hyae Kim, The Daegu Daily
Mi- Hyang Choi, The Art Korea Broadcast
Jin- Bum Cho, The Young Nam Daily

2017

Bo-a Choi, Kyoung Sang Daily News
Jae-Bum Kim, UP Korea2017 Suk-Jin Kim, The Global News
The Niji Magazine, Meet The Artist

2016

The STATE Magazine, No.23, 'Hot and Cool Art'
Hee-jeong Yoon, The Kyoung Buk Daily
Un-young Paik, The Global News
Min-kyeoung Kim, The Munhwa News

Collections

Private collections: London, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Busan, Gyeonggi-do, Los Angeles, Berlin, Hong Kong

Public collections: Hurs Gallery, London, UK - POP MY MIND Ltd, Ipswich, UK - Dechan Academy, Seoul, S.Korea - IMM Investment Global, Hong Kong - YoungNam Law Firm, Deagu, S.Korea - Industrial Bank of Korea, Seoul, S.Korea