Elly Cho

Elly Cho has exhibited around the world and holds numerous awards. Her art explores the intersection between nature, the environment and human behaviour, across various mediums including mixed media, video and performance art.

Cho’s approach to art making, is largely inspired by the relationship between nature, environment and the viewer’s perception to nature based on their personal history.
She approachs the subject matter of cultural landscapes in narrative form, and these narratives often relate to her own life experiences and memories. In her video work, She has used familiar landscapes that stimulate viewers to engage with an imaginative response.
Her recent research about color, nature and mental health brought new body of work that explores the relationship between ecology and human existence. By drawing on colors and movement of nature, aesthetic of being, and poetry in nature. She trys to mimic the movement of the species and then expanding the drawing to a more imaginary scene of poeticism. She feels that nature is a place where everyone feels to be part of and even if we are all apart from each other, being in nature, makes us together and connected. Through her work, She seek to instill in the viewer a highly cha...

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York
Master of Arts in Art Education, October 2011

University College London, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK,
Master of Fine Art in Fine Art Media, August 2001

University College London, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK,
Bachelor of Arts in painting, August 1999

University of The Arts London, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
BETEC (equivalent to a foundation program), August 1995

Le Rosey and Collège du Léman, Switzerland
International Swiss School, 1988-1993

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Meta-Islet , KIAF Plus (Seoul)
2019 Eclipse: Recognized by the Sound, Art Asia, Coex Convention and Exhibition Center, Seoul
2016 Fragment, Macy Gallery, Teachers College Columbia University, New York
2013 Landscape, Memory, and Desire, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
2009 Journey of Hope, Gallery ARTSIDE, Seoul
2003 Reflection- Game- Reflection, French Cultural Center, Seoul
2002 Symphony for Salvation, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2001 Universal Apparition Paintings, Hampstead Museum, London

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 SUNNY ART PRIZE 2021, Sunny Art Centre, London
2019 Exhibition at Art and Social Activism Festival, New York
2017 Requiem for Hybrid life, SEMA storage (Seoul Museum of Art), Seoul, Sponsored by art council Korea
2016 Sulwha Cultural Exhibition: Once upon a time-The two love stars-Altair and Vega, Sulwhasoo flagship store, Seoul
2015 JABEOLRAE Media Art Project: Projection Mapping, Generative Art, Seoul Metropolitan Government,
Hangang Park, Seoul
2015 The Exhibition from the Archive of Soma Drawing Center, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art
Seoul
2015 Chock, Exhibition of the Art Society of Korea, Central Academy of Fine Arts, B...