Soilart Jo Dojoong

I want to put the image of eternity in my heart and draw it on canvas. I have been using soil as a material since 1997, leading the earth painting genre in the world of art history.

I had a desire to break away from the same art form. My discovery experience commenced by erasing my past experiences and knowledge.

The soil is cozy and warm. It is comfortable and calm. This feeling cannot be felt with the color of paint. This initiated the possibility of discovering a new perspective for the essence of things.
I started by rejecting the techniques I enjoyed in the past. When as a painter you are free from this burden, you can discover a fresh sense of nature and begin to see the depth and the clarity.





Colors that cannot be expressed with paints.

The struggle with the soil to get it

Even if I wrestle with the soil day and night like this, there is a color that is so rare that it disappears with a single brushstroke.

It was a process to find originality



​Beautiful paintings are great works. However, it is not a work of art or a cultural property.

I think a work of art, first, must have originality, and secondly, no one should be able to imitate it.

The beauty of nature is all contained in m...

1983.2.23 Graduate School of Painting, College of Arts,

Chung-Ang University Western Painting Major (Master of Fine Arts)



1982~88 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art Education, Chonbuk National University

1985 Korean Artist Exhibition in France

2001 Soil Painting Solo Exhibition (Jeonju Minchon Art Center)

2003.05 Earth Painting Solo Exhibition (Lotte Gallery, Sogong-dong, Seoul)

2004 G) International Youth Federation IYF World Camp Invitational Exhibition (Jeju ICC Convention Center)

2012 Earth Life Exhibition (Insa Art Center, Insadong, Seoul)

2012.05 SBS JTV's Scent of Culture_ Appeared in a canvas with the vitality of the land

2012.07 SBS JTV Soil and Life (picture) aired

2012 IYF World Camp Invitational Exhibition (Busan BEXCO Auditorium)

2013 PARK's Gallery Invitation Exhibition

2013 Seven People's Painting Exhibition Jeonju Taejo Palace Tourist Hotel Opening Exhibition

2016 Jeonbuk Women's Education and Culture Center Land Life Exhibition

2016 Jeonbuk Art Modernity History Dictionary (Jeonbuk Museum of Art)

2017) International Youth Federation IYF World Camp Invitational Exhibition (Busan BEXCO Auditorium)