ENG / 한국어
contact woohee.hit (et) gmail.comb. Seoul, South Korea
lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Woohee Cho is a visual artist based in Los Angeles and Seoul. His works focus on moments in everyday life where individual identity collides with or is subsumed by society. These are transformed into installations, videos, and performances as a means of queering the normativity of society. Gathering, personalizing, and laughing are the primary methodologies of his practice.
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 / Award
2025 MOHN grant, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, LA, CA
2025 Interdisciplinary Fellow, UCross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2024 Artist in Residence, Alex Brown Foundation, Des Moines, IA
2023 SFAC Visual Art fellowship, 서울문화재단 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2023 International Residency, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (partial fellowship)
2020-2021 Artist in Residence, REEF residency, LA, CA
2019 Artist in Residence, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art : States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism, NYC, NY
2019 Body and Tech fellowship, The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, Valencia, CA
Solo exhibitions
2025 Can the living save the dead?, Vox Populi gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 10987YOU654ME32US1, 탈영역 우정국 Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
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
Film Festival / Screening
2022
2015 NORMAL FAMILY, Last Projects, LA, CA
Group exhibitions
2024 Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete, Fellows of Contemporary Art, LA, CA (3 person show, FOCA Curator Lab)
2024 Two Tongues, Multiple Mothers, Human Resources, LA, CA
2023 Mother Mold, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2021
2014 일일연속극은 지겨워 (Daily serial drama is boring), Wooseok hall, Seoul, KR
Press / Publication
2021
2019 Ration: issue#2
Public Talk / Workshop
2021 The Chosun Family: In Convo with Woohee Cho, IG Live at ONE Archives
2020
Performance
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 / Award
2025 MOHN grant, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, LA, CA
2025 Interdisciplinary Fellow, UCross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2024 Artist in Residence, Alex Brown Foundation, Des Moines, IA
2023 SFAC Visual Art fellowship, 서울문화재단 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2023 International Residency, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (partial fellowship)
2020-2021 Artist in Residence, REEF residency, LA, CA
2019 Artist in Residence, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art : States of Consciousness in Cognitive Capitalism, NYC, NY
2019 Body and Tech fellowship, The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, Valencia, CA
Solo exhibitions
2025 Can the living save the dead?, Vox Populi gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023 10987YOU654ME32US1, 탈영역 우정국 Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
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
Film Festival / Screening
2022
Brussels Independent Film Festival, Brussel, Belgium2021
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA
66th Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
OUTFEST Film Festival, LA, CA
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
Group exhibitions
2024 Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete, Fellows of Contemporary Art, LA, CA (3 person show, FOCA Curator Lab)
2024 Two Tongues, Multiple Mothers, Human Resources, LA, CA
2023 Mother Mold, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2021
同乡会 / 同鄉會/ Tong Xiang Hui / 동창회 / Reunion, Chinatown, LA, CA2020
On Becoming, Avenue 50 Studio, LA, CA
다시 만날 때까지: part2, 아티스트런스페이스 쇼앤텔 (artist run space Show and Tell), Seoul, KR
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
2021
Magazine 43: Artist Hightlights2020
loves me love me not: volume v, 2021
Emergency Index Vol. 9, Ugly Duckling Presse, NYC, NY
Artforum: MFA spotlight (PDF)2019 Hyperallergic: At CalArts, graduating students are making sincere and rigorous work (PDF)
2019 Ration: issue#2
Public Talk / Workshop
2021 The Chosun Family: In Convo with Woohee Cho, IG Live at ONE Archives
2020
BETWEEN: The Contradictions of non-Alignment with Christina Novakov-Ritchey and Arushi Singh, UCLA New Wight Gallery
LAMAG Learn: Ideas for Resisting Artist Talk and Workshop with Woohee Cho, Malisa Humphrey and Farrah Karapetian, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Performance
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