Tamed by spectacle - the opaqueness of image Painting

A contemporary Korean painting artist Juheon Cho is from Seoul. She received two separate degrees in Korean traditional painting/ Fine art and printmaking from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul and studied her masters in Fine art at Goldsmiths University of London. Her interest is on Korean traditional deep colour painting(진채화), commodification of personal narrative, self restoration through drawing, diaspora, the value of artisanal labour. After the study, she worked as an artist traveling back and forth between the UK and Korea, she had six solo exhibitions starting with her first solo exhibition ‘The Little boy and a toxic Land (The 5th base gallery/London)’ in 2015 and was invited to ‘Tamed by spectacle - the opaqueness of image (The muse at 269 Gallery/London)’, ‘A spectacle fever ; media between real and digital (Gallery Dos/Seoul)’, ‘Flat digital (Chungmuro Media Center/Seoul)’, ‘Memories ; Obersee (Villa Heike/Berlin), ‘.dear.diary (Junghyun Gallery, Wrocław, Poland)’. She had invited and collaborated with Exhibitions and collaborations with other artists at ‘DIGITDISCO: THE BODY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL (The showroom/London), ‘Media Ecstasy (Art Museum KNU/Daegu)’, ‘Future with Arts (Daegu art factory/Daegu)’, ‘Geeky Zone (K Museum of contemporary art/Seoul)’ as well as many other exhibitions. After returning to Seoul from London, she taught ‘contemporary art research’ class and ‘fine art painting’ at Daegu University and Kyungbook National University, and currently lives and works as an artist in Berlin, Germany.