January Yoon Cho
제뉴어리 조 윤
Interdisciplinary:
photo, video, drawing, performance, installation
January Yoon Cho’s work delves into the notion of identity through photography, video, drawing, and performance.
She is particularly interested in exploring one’s relationship with the social or physical environments and how they intersect leading to social conformity, feminism, and environmentalism.
Web: www.yooncho.com
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Cho’s work has been featured in the US and Europe, including the Islip Art Museum, NY; Hammond Museum, NY; Korean Consulate General NY, NY; McKinsey & Company, NY; Austin Museum of Art, TX; Wichita Falls Museum of Art, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL; The Croton Free Public Library, Croton-on-Hudson, NY; Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, TX; Dunn and Brown Contemporary, TX; Women & Their Work, Austin, TX; Penn State University, PA; The LAB, San Francisco, CA; University of Texas at Dallas, TX; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; Centro de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; and Triennale di Milano, Italy.
She is a recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund in Feminist Art and the Puffin Grant in Environmental Art categories. Cho has given talks at non-profit and corporate institutions including the Austin Museum of Art and McKinsey & Company, NY. She was a visiting artist at Ringling College of Art and Design and attended Vermont Studio Center Residency. She was an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and New School University in New York and Hanyang University, in Seoul, Korea. Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1973. She received a BFA from RISD and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She currently resides in New York City.
