Wook-kyung Choi

• (1940 - 1985)
  
  Born in 1940, Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1966     Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, US
               Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US (three-month special training course) 
  1965     M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, US
  1963     B.F.A., College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  1959     Seoul Arts High School, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024
  Wook-kyung Choi, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  A Stranger to Strangers, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2021
  Wook-Kyung Choi: Alice's Cat, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2020     
  Wook-kyung Choi, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017     
  Wook-kyung Choi, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016     
  Wook-kyung Choi: American Years 1960s-1970s, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013     
  Wook-kyung Choi Solo Exhibition: Painting & Drawing, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Wook-kyung Choi Solo Exhibition, Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2005     
  Wook-kyung Choi, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996
  Wook-kyung Choi (1940 – 1985), Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea
  Wook-kyung Choi (1940 – 1985), Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1989     
  Works by Wook-kyung Choi, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987     
  The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1982     
  Invitational Solo Exhibition, Catholic Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
  
  1981     
  Invitational Solo Exhibition, Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1978-79 
  Impressions of New Mexico, American Cultural Center, Seoul; Busan; Daegu, Korea
  
  1977     
  Invitational Solo Exhibition, Roswell Museum, Roswell, US
  
  1976     
  Shinsegae Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1975     
  Invitational Solo Exhibition, Unge Kunstners Samfund Gallery, Oslo, Norway
  
  1974     
  Invitational Solo Exhibition in Honor of Korean Art, Taipei, Taiwan 
  Invitational Solo Exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
  Unitarian Church Gallery, Atlanta, US
  
  1973     
  Midopa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1971     
  Homecoming Exhibition, Shinsegae Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1970     
  Sharon Art Center, Sharon, US
  
  1969     
  Nari Zagal Gallery, Peterbourough, US
  
  1967     
  Western University for Women, Oxford, US
  
  1965     
  Cornell University, Ithaca, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024
  Abstract Gestures from Female Painters, New Spring Project, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  Action, Gesture, Paint: Women artists and abstraction worldwide 1940-70, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
  Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
  Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE
  
  2022
  Saturation, Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
  
  2021
  Elles font l'abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 
  With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
  Women in Abstraction, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Spring II, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2019     
  Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Herstory of Abstraction in East Asia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  
  2018    
  SeMA Collection: The Lost World, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  SeMA 30th Anniversary: Digital Promenade, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Oscillation, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017     
  DNA of Coreanity, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
  
  2016     
  70th Anniversary Show: Another Korean Modern and Contemporary Art History, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004    
  Artists on Journey, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001    
  3^rd Anniversary of Gana Art Center Exhibition, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000    
  Passion and Expression: Abstract Expressionism of Korean and Western Artists after the War, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  30^th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  Women Artists Festival, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  50 Years of Korean Art (II), Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
   
  1997    
  Textbook Art, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995    
  100 Self-Portraits of Korea: From Chosun Dynasty to Now, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  100 Self-Portraits of Korea, Cheongju National Museum, Cheongju, Korea
  
  1994    
  1994 Korean Contemporary Art: Light and Color, Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991    
  25 Contemporary Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
  Four Painters: Oh Kyung Hwan, Ryu Hee Young, Lee Bong Yeul and Choi Wook Kyung, Gallery Chung-A, Seoul, Korea
  
  1990    
  Opening Exhibition, Galleria Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1987    
  Yeong-nam University’s 40^th Anniversary Exhibition of Art Professors, Dong-a Shopping Center Gallery, Daegu, Korea 
  
  1986    
  Ewha Women’s High School 100^th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  1985    
  Invitational Exhibition of Four Contemporary Painters, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  70 Years of Korean Fine Arts (Joong-ang Daily News’ 20^th Anniversary Exhibition), Ho-am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1984    
  ’84 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Korean Contemporary Art in the 1960s: Informel and Its Environment, Walker Hill Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Exhibition of Contemporary Korean Art, Viscontea Hall, Milan, Italy
  ’83 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Exhibition of Seven Non-Figurative Painters, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1982    
  Invitational Exhibition of Top-Ranking Young Artists of 1981, Selected by 11 Art Critics, Galerie Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Korean Artists, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan
  Exhibitions of Prints and Drawings by Contemporary Artists, Kwan-hun Gallery, Seoul; Myong-dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition, Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
  
  1982-85
  Korean Drawings Now, Tours from Brooklyn Museum to a number of other museums in the US
  
  1981     
  Exhibition of Drawing ’81, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Exhibition of Korean Art ’81, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Korean Drawing Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, US
  The 4^th Joong-ang Grand Exhibition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  The 16^th São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
  The Second Invitational Exhibition of Oriental and Western Paintings, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1980     
  The 3^rd Grand Exhibition of Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition of Prints and Drawing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Prints and Drawings by 8 Artists, Maek-hyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
  
  1979    
  Invitational Exhibition of Five Painters, Lee Gallery, Daegu; Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The 4^th Invitational Exhibition, sponsored by Yeongnam-ilbo, Daegu, Korea
  
  1978    
  The Exhibition of Art Professors of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US
  The Charity Exhibition by the Council, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1977    
  Invitational Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Painters, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  The 9^th Art Exhibition of Korean Artists in the Southern California Area, Korean Art Hall, Los Angeles, US
  
  1975    
  Invitational Exhibition in Commemoration of the Year of Women, Atlanta, US
  
  1973    
  Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Honolulu, US
  
  1972     
  Invitational Exhibition of 14 Korean Contemporary Artists, sponsored by the American Cultural Center, Chosun-Ilbo Gallery, Seoul; Daegu; Busan, Korea
  Invitational Exhibition, sponsored by Tschang-mi Hoe, Fukuoka, Japan
  Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1971     
  Art professors Invitational Exhibition of New England Area, Nausea, US
  
  1967-68 
  Annual Invitational Exhibitions, sponsored by Skowhegan School Foundation, New York, US
  
  1966     
  Scholarship-Grantees’ Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum School of Art, New York, US

Selected Awards

• 1976     
  10 Months' Residency Grant from the Roswell Museum, Roswell, US
  
  1972    
  3^rd Prize at the 8^th Paris Biennale Competition, Paris France
  
  1969     
  2 Months' Residency Grant from the Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, US
           
  1966     
  Full Scholarship from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US
  1^st Prize at the Drawing Division of Student’s Exhibition and Competition in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US
  
  1965     
  Honorable Mention Award, Michigan State Art Award, Sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
  Max Beckham Scholarship from the Brooklyn Museum School of Art, New York, US
  
  1961    
  1^st Prize (Prime Minister’s Award) at the 2^nd Exhibition by Korean Fine Arts Association, Seoul, Korea
  Honorable Mention Award, Korean National Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Missouri State University, Kansas, US
  Skowhegan School Foundation, New York, US
  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US
  Colby Collage of Art Museum, Watervile, US
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
  Christian Academy House, Seoul, Korea
  Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Hansol Art Museum, Wonju, Korea