Cho Yong-ik

Cho Yong-ik (20 February 1934 – 2 July 2023) was a South Korean artist. He was a leading figure in Korean abstract painting along with Kim Tschang Yeul, Park Seo-bo, and Chung Sang-Hwa.

Cho was born in Pukchong County, South Hamgyong Province on 20 February 1934. He majored in art from Seoul National University and attended the Paris Biennale in 1961 and 1969 as one of Korea's delegates. His works are on exhibition in multiple museums, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, and the Ho-Am Art Museum.

Cho died on 2 July 2023, at the age of 89.

Personal history

1960 Jury member of The Chosun Ilbo Contemporary Artists Exhibition 1958–1961 The chief of Contemporary Artists Association 1962 The chief of the Actuell Committee 1965–1968 Jury member of Young Art Prize 1965–1981 Invited Professor at Seorabeol Art College (Presently Chung-Ang University) 1967 The Chief of I.S.P.A.A. (International Society of Plastic and Audio – Visual Art) 1967–1969 5-6th Paris Biennale Korea Representative 1973–1979 Representative of Seoul '70 1974–1992 Professor at Chugye University for the Arts 1974–1981 23-30th National Art Exhibition of Korea, The Recommended & Invited Artist 1977–1983 Korean Fine Arts Association Vice Executive Director

Solo exhibitions 1974 Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 1984 Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 1990 Arko Art Center, Seoul 2001 Jongno Gallery, Seoul 2008 Han Gallery, Seoul 2008 Geohong Gallery, Guri, Korea 2016 Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul 2016 Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected group exhibitions

1961 The 2nd Biennale de Paris, Paris, France 1966 Contemporary Korean Painters Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1967 São Paulo Art Biennial, Sao-Paulo, Brazil 1980 Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 1983 Korea Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition, Viscontea Hall, Milano, Italy 2015 Re:Contemporary- Fermented Souls, Waterfall mansion, New York, USA 2016 Art Basel Hong Kong, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong kong

Selected museum collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwangju National Museum Seoul Museum of Art Walkerhill Museum Samsung Museum of Art, Leeum