Cho Woo Bin

I create paintings that record the events, thoughts, or emotions I experience each day. Catch and record the passing time as if you were writing a diary. The desire to talk about these things and the desire not to talk about them coexist. So, I replace the story with another object and bring it into the painting. They are largely made up of things found in everyday life. I appear in the painting disguised as an object I created. Objects arbitrarily paired with meaning like this make up a story. The space where objects in a painting are placed has meaning in the act of creating a painting. The act implies time. When carving a tree, growth rings hidden within the tree bark are revealed. Tree rings contain the time a tree has gone through. In order to capture the physical time of creating a painting in form, I piled up several layers of paint on the panel. The color and viscosity of the paint was selected, applied and ground depending on the occasion or mood. Those choices piled up to create an unintentional image. Unlike objects with thoroughly calculated composition, this is accidental. Coincidence and inevitability in my paintings resemble our daily lives.

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Education

2011  Seonhwa Arts High School

2017  Ewha Womans University, Bachelor of Arts in Western Painting and Sculpture

2020  Ewha Womans University Sculpture Master’s degree completion

Exhibition

2023  Daekyo International Sculpture Symposium, The Seoul Lightium 3rd Exhibition Hall, Seoul

2022  ‘Build a Bridge of Friendship’ Primorsky State Museum of Art (Vladivostok, Russia)

2022  ‘Walking the Sculptor’s Path’, Geumboseong Art Center, Seoul

2021  ‘Method of Representation’, ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul

2020  ‘OPEN? STUDIO’ ART MUST GO ON Online Media Support Project, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

2020  ‘One eye, one span, one o’clock’, Ewha Art Pavilion, Seoul

2019  KAFA Korea Art Festival Art Fair, KINTEX, Ilsan ‘TAKE OFF’, Space55, Seoul

2019  ‘RE:START’, Ewha Art Pavilion, Seoul

2019  HARBOUR ART FAIR, Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong

2018  ‘What is the use of what I love?’, Haenghwatang, Seoul

2018  ART ASIA, KINTEX, Ilsan

2018  KAFA Korea Art Festival Art Fair, KINTEX, Ilsan

2018  Asia Hotel Art Fair Seoul, InterContinental Seoul Parnas, Seoul

2018  ‘Flowing air, moving wind’, Yujung Art Center, Seoul

2017  ‘Fire for effect’ A.I.R Vallauris Small Art Object, Belarus, France

2017  Tongyeong Art Fair, Citizens’ Cultural Center, Tongyeong

2017  SPOON ART SHOW 2017, KINTEX, Ilsan

2016  ‘THE FIRST STEP OF MASTERPIECES’, Samsung Blue Square, Seoul

2016  ‘CONTEMPORARIES Art Park Grand Opening’, ART PARK, Samsung Blue Square, Seoul

2014  The 2nd Singapore Bank Art Fair, Gallery AKA, Pen Pacific Hotel, Singapore

2014  ‘Companion Exhibition’, Gallery Undera, Seoul

2014  ‘Same Eyes and Different Knowledge’, Gallery Below, Seoul