b. Seoul, South Korea
lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Woohee Cho is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily with video installation and performance. The key theme of his work is self-identification. He is a gay who grew up in a religious, conservative middle-class Korean family. His identities and living environment merged and clashed with each other, which gives him inspiration and a deeper understanding of self-identification. The aim of his work which stems from his personal experiences is to expose and queer the structural irony of patriarchal, heterosexual norms. While facing the discomfort and traumatic experiences, his body is functioned as the active agent, material, medium of his artwork, and the playground/battleground of discourse. He is a co-founder of Nomad Pavilion. Cho received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA from Seoul National University.
Education
2020 California Institute of the Arts, MFA in Art, with supplemental concentration in Integrated Media, CA
2014 Seoul National University, BFA in Visual Communication Design, KR
Residency
2020-2021 REEF residency, LA, CA
2019 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art : States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism, NYC, NY
Solo exhibitions
2020 Unsolicited Pleasure, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2019 hashtag whynohomo, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2014 Exhibition practice, Cafe Morris Gallery, Seoul, KR
Group exhibitions
2021
2014 일일연속극은 지겨워 (Daily serial drama is boring), Wooseok hall, Seoul, KR
Press / Publication
2020 Artforum: MFA spotlight (PDF)
2019 Hyperallergic: At CalArts, graduating students are making sincere and rigorous work (PDF)
2019 Ration: issue#2
Film Festival / Screening
2021
2015 NORMAL FAMILY, Last Projects, LA, CA
Performance / Screening
2019
(2012~16 involved in creative play group “병소사이어티, bjung(丙) society”)
2016 Labor-intensive Game 2016 : Recreation, stage design
2015 Labor-intensive Game 2016, stage design
2014 Why do you do this to me?, A-O-Bjung-Ing Festival, actor
2013 OmniBUS, 16th Seoul Fringe Festival, actor
2012 Mamameal, Creation!, 15th Seoul Fringe Festival, actor
2020 California Institute of the Arts, MFA in Art, with supplemental concentration in Integrated Media, CA
2014 Seoul National University, BFA in Visual Communication Design, KR
Residency
2020-2021 REEF residency, LA, CA
2019 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art : States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism, NYC, NY
Solo exhibitions
2020 Unsolicited Pleasure, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2019 hashtag whynohomo, California Institute of the Arts, CA
2014 Exhibition practice, Cafe Morris Gallery, Seoul, KR
Group exhibitions
2021
다시 만날 때까지: part2, 아티스트런스페이스 쇼앤텔 (artist run space Show and Tell), Seoul, KR2020
Once More, With Feeling... (New Wight Biennial 2020), UCLA New wight gallery, LA, CA
Time is Out of Joint: part 2, MAK center Mackey apartment, LA, CA
object subject, Other places art fair, CA
Archive Machines: Resisting, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
CalArts EXPO, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA2019
Nowhere Better Than Here, Nomad Pavilion, Venice, CA
Acqua Alta, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
ArtChangeUs, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
20/20, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CalArts EXPO, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA2016 준비족 연대기 (Water Preppers), Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, KR
2014 일일연속극은 지겨워 (Daily serial drama is boring), Wooseok hall, Seoul, KR
Press / Publication
2020 Artforum: MFA spotlight (PDF)
2019 Hyperallergic: At CalArts, graduating students are making sincere and rigorous work (PDF)
2019 Ration: issue#2
Film Festival / Screening
2021
Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI2017 Screening Project Dongshi Sangyoung #8 : Ah! Sports, Open Box, Seoul, KR
2015 NORMAL FAMILY, Last Projects, LA, CA
Performance / Screening
2019
The revolting lumpen, Human Resources LA, LA, CA
(performer for Beck + Col)
Acid-free, Blum and Poe, LA, CA
(New Writing, published by Steph Smith)
Readings & Performances, Emotional Store, LA, CA
(with Sohyeon Jenny Eom)
Talent Show, REDCAT, LA, CA (with Yue Zhu)
The revolting lumpen, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
(performer for Beck + Col)
Shelter or Playground: The House of Dust at the Schindler House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, LA, CA
(performed various scores by Fluxus artists)
(2012~16 involved in creative play group “병소사이어티, bjung(丙) society”)
2016 Labor-intensive Game 2016 : Recreation, stage design
2015 Labor-intensive Game 2016, stage design
2014 Why do you do this to me?, A-O-Bjung-Ing Festival, actor
2013 OmniBUS, 16th Seoul Fringe Festival, actor
2012 Mamameal, Creation!, 15th Seoul Fringe Festival, actor