WOOK-KYUNG CHOI

Wook-kyung Choi, graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University in 1963, and entered Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States in 1965. She graduated from the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York the following year. While staying in the United States, Choi worked as an assistant professor at Franklin Pierce College and continued to teach in Duksung Women’s University as an associate professor and later as a professor beginning in 1981.

Choi was shortlisted for the Biennale de Paris award and received 3rd prize. She has had many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and South Korea including a solo exhibition at Gong-gan Gallery, Seoul (1981), Wook-kyung Choi retrospective at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (1987), and Works of Wook-kyung Choi at Ho-Am Art Museum (1989). Her works are housed in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon in Korea, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Korea, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in New York and the psychology department in Missouri State University. Wook-kyung Choi died at the age of 45 in July, 1985.