----- Cho Won Kang -----

ABOUT

Cho’s “Relationship” series feature dogs and their owners but whose heads are cropped.

 Originally inspired by Robert Graham’s two headless bronze statues at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,

 Cho employs this stratagem to further complicate what goes on in his painting. 

Of the three relationships, the first two, namely the one between the dogs and their owners, 

and the other between the dogs and us viewers, seem straightforward enough; 

but the third, the one between the headless owners and us viewers, 

is troublesome because they are unknown to us. Here lies the crux of the matter: 

we have to imagine who they are, we are not in on what the dogs know. 

Cho has taken away what we take for granted when we meet people in our everyday life: their faces. 

EDUCATION 

MFA  School of Visual Arts, New York

MFA  Painting Department, College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Seoul

BFA   Painting Department, College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Seoul

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015   Gallery aHsh, Seoul

2013   Gallery MARK, Seoul

    Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung

               Gallery Mano, Seoul

2012   Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung

    Gallery Mano, Seoul

1998   Dataphilia, Visual Arts Gallery, New York

1994   Icon Gallery, Seoul

1990   Battanggol Gallery, Seoul

1989   Battanggol Gallery, Seoul

1988   Battanggol Gallery, Seoul

1984   Yoon Gallery, Seoul

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014   Blind Spot Relationship, Gallery Ahsh, Seoul

    Cheongdam Art Fair, Seoul

               ARTSHOW BUSAN 2014, BEXCO, Busan

2013   Cheongdam Art Fair, Seoul

    Art Taipei 2013, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei

               KIAF/13, COEX, Seoul 

               Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong

2012    KIAF/12, COEX, Seoul

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015   Aficionado Artists, Gallery Toon, Choonchun

   Seoul Fine Arts Association, Hanjeon Art Center, Seoul

   Hongik Art Fair, Best Western Mapo Garden Hotel, Seoul

2014   New Vision, Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul

   Seoul Fine Arts Association, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

   Thank You! 20 x 20, Gallery Mano, Seoul

   Hongik Art Fair, Lotte Hotel, Seoul

2013   Seoul Fine Arts Association, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

   Art Eternal Light, Seoul Art Center, Seoul

   MULTIPLE DREAMS, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung

2012   The Korean Watercolor Painters Group, Gallery La Mer, Seoul

   Hongik International Art Festival, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul 

2011   Artists in 50's, Gallery Mano, Seoul

   A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Pfo gallery, Busan

   Water & wind, Posco gallery, Pohang, Korea

2007  Linear & More, Gallery Korea, New York

1998  Printed Visions, Visual Arts Gallery, New York

   Melange of Arts, Art 54 Gallery, New York