SOOWHAN CHOI

• CHUGYE UNIVERSITY FOR THE ARTS
  11GA-GIL 7, BUKAHYUNRO SEODAEMUN-GU SEOUL 120-763 KOREA
  Born 1972, Gyeongju, Korea
  
  Present : Professor at Chugye University for the Arts

EDUCATION

• 2004-2006
  M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
• 1993-1998
  B.F.A. ChuGye University for the Arts, Seoul, Korea

RESIDENCIES

• 2014-2016
  STUDIO M17, Paju, Korea
• 2009-2012
  JangHeung Atelier, Korea
• 2008
  CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
• 2007
  THE CANAL CHAPTER, New York
• 2006
  Studios Midwest, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, U.S.A.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2021
  Walk in Emptiness, BONGSAN CULTURAL CENTER, Daegu, Korea
• 2019
  COMPLEX EMPTINESS, Pontone Gallery, London, UK
• 2016
  Walk in Emptiness, Pyo Gallery SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
• 2015
  from dot, Makeshop Art Space, Paju, Korea
• Walk in Emptiness, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
• 2012
  Emptiness, Yoo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
• 2011
  through Thousand Years, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
• 2009
  Light Wave & Love Wave, ILJU ART, Seoul, Korea
• What sees what?, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
• 2008
  From Moment to Moment, ART SPACE H, Seoul, Korea
• 2005
  Walk in Emptiness, Gallery X, Chicago

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & TWO PERSON SHOWS

• 2021
  EXPO CHGO ONLINE: A CURATED DIGITAL EXPOSITION
• SOUTH KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART, Pontone Gallery, Augusta, USA
• 2020
  Welcome, White Block, Cheonan, Korea
• Art Miami: Special Online Edition
• UNTITLED, ART San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
• 2019
  Night of light, SHINSEGAE GALLERY, Korea
• Art Miami, Miami, USA
• Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
• The Five Senses of the City, Gyeongju/Osan/Iksan/Cheonan/Chuncheon, Korea
• VOLTA BASEL 2019, Switzerland
• 2018
  ABU DHABI ART, Manarat Al saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• KIAF2018, COEX, Seoul, Korea
• 2017
  Beautiful Winter, LOTTE GALLERY, Daejeon, Korea
• MEDIA ART IN ULSAN, ULSAN CULTURE ART CENTER, Ulsan, Korea
• Responds to light and sound, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
• THE35th KOREA GALLERIES ART FAIR 2017, PYO gallery, COEX, Seoul, Korea
• 2016
  How to keep winter, Shinsegae gallery, Incheon, Korea
• “road-look back, C21, Seoul, Korea
• Document The traces of 10years The future of the 10years, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
• 2015
  Fall, GUM BO SUNG ART,Seoul, Korea
• Light & View, Gallery KUNST, Daegu, Korea
• BLUE, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
• ART BUSAN, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
• ART GYEONGJU 2015 SPECIAL EXHIBITION, HICO, Gyeongju, Korea
• 2014
  DREAMLAND, YANGPYEONG, yangpyeong art museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
• Prologue 2014, MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Korea
• LANTERN FESTIVAL 2014, Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, Korea
• MakeShop Top10, MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Korea
• SeMA’s New Acquisitions 2013, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• 2013
  Winter Project_ALIVE ART MUSEUM, yangpyeong art museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
• The 4th International Contemporary Art Gwangju Art· Vision Exhibition, Exhibition halls of
• Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
• The Enjoy Encounter, Pangyo, Korea
• Museum + Summer Vacance, Shinsegae gallery, Incheon, Korea
• 2012
  ILLUMINATION-Light in Today’s Art, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
• CheonMa Opening Special Exhibition, Cheonan, Korea
• CHEONGDAM ART FAIR, Art space Who, Seoul
• KIAF/12, COEX, Seoul
• Gana Atelier Resident Artists Report Exhibition, Gana Art Center, Seoul
• Artience Project, the Expo Science Park, Daejeon, Korea
• contemporary art space c21 opening exhibition, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul
• The Vision & Reflection 2012, Kyoung Book National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
• 2011
  2011 Ceramic ART & TECHNOLOGY, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
• Forty, Art Today, Gallery H, Seoul, Korea
• MAGIC HOUR, Lotte Gallery, Busan, Korea
• dot and… , interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
• Hotel Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
• Mural Project, Anguk Station, Seoul, Korea
• Minimal Art, Gallery CHUNGDAM, Cheongdo, Korea
• 2010
  Oh, Happy Day!, Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Korea
• Light Effect, Lotte Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
• Christmas Is All Around, JangHeung Artpark Red space, JangHeung, Korea
• ceramic ART & TECHNOLOGY, aT center, Seoul, Korea
• ART EDITION 10’, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
• 123 gallery, 123 GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
• Art Road 77 Art Fair 2th-With Art, With Artist!, Gallery HANGIL, Heyri, Korea
• fantastic, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
• my room our atelier, Gana Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
• International Fine Art Project, South Africa
• Art Amsterdam 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Facing Korea Now, Canvas International Art gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• New ARTPARK: Individuals, ART PARK, Seoul, Korea
• Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Happy New Art, Road to the Museum, Seoul, Korea
• 2009
  LIGHT ON!, Johyun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
• The First Noel, Severance Art Space, Seoul, Korea
• Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
• Oil’s other name, Yeonhui-dong Projects, Seoul, Korea
• Velvet Inspiration, KIMI Art. Seoul, Korea
• HAECHI Parade, Gwanghwamun Plaza, Seoul, Korea
• Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
• Living Furniture, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
• The desire & restriction_about a virtual image, LEEAHN Gallery, Daegu, Korea
• Christmas in August, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Mad for Furniture, Nefspace. Seoul, Korea
• THE INITIATIVE_Seoul, MUE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Ways of tracing moments, KT Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Truth about retina, Inter Alia, Seoul, Korea
• Seoul Living Design Fair 2009, COEX, Seoul, Korea
• The tactic confronting with the island, Chungjeonggak, Seoul, Korea
• Take out, Curiosity, Seoul, Korea
• 2008
  an interim report, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
• Illusion of light, World Culture Open Center, New York
• SAIC + DCB, Design Center Busan, Busan, Korea
• 2007
  The 11th Annual Art Under The Bridge Festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn
• Canal Chapter Residency Project, New York
• Its Me!, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
• The 2ndAll that is solid melts into air, Chashama, New York
• 2006
  Studios Midwest Exhibition, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Galesburg, IL
• All that is solid melts into air, Gallery 2, Chicago
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago
• Generations, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago
• Light Experiments, ATS deep display of SAIC, Chicago
• 2005
  STREET STORIES, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
• 2004
  Nippon U.S.A. / SAIC Presidential Award Exhibition, Chicago
• 2001
  Same Generation & Next Generation, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• “TA-RAE”, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2000
  26th AJAC Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• The 5th Art Festival-Graduate School of Arts, Chung-Ang University Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• Kwangju Biennale Special Exhibition “forest of Human Beings, Forest of Painting,” Korea
• “Art of art” Chung-Ang University Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• 1999
  “TA-RAE” , DongDuk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 1998
  “TA-RAE” , KongPyng Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• 1997
  BFA Graduate Exhibition, DukWon museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• Up coming New Artists, Inter Gallery Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• Neo – 97 The Trend of Korean Art, DukWon museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• “The Great Koguryo Exhibition at the British Museum” Memorial Art Festival
• LOGOS Gallery, England

LECTURES

• 2006
  Walk in Emptiness, Ford Center for Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, U.S.A.
• Ready-Made Karma, SAIC Auditorium, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

INTERVIEWS

• 2017/08/09
  Responds to light and sound, Arirang TV, Korea
• 2011/02
  Happy Home Vol.282 FEB 2011 P.89
• 2011/01
  VOEF vol. 8
• 2010/09
  ARTPEOPLE Vol.006 SEP-OCT 2010 P.120 ~ P.121
• 2010/02
  LED, Designer’s new reclaimed land, DESIGN VOL.380 FEB 2010 P.136
• 2009/10/27
  LED, creating light art!, MBC Cultural Contemplation, MBC, Korea
• 2009/03/30
  Light Artist_SOOWHAN CHOI, KBS 1TV Cultural Field, KBS, Korea
• 2006/07/26
  Studios Midwest, Galesburg Radio 14 WGIL, Galesburg, U.S.A.