Education
1991 Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY; Painting: M.F.A.
1985 Hong-Ik University, College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea: M.F.A. Solo Exhibitions: 2023 "Sook Jin Jo: Witness III", Mardag Gallery, Franconia Sculpture Park, Schafer, Minnesota
2022 "On the Street: The Extraordinary Vision of Sook Jin Jo", Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, New York
2021 "Art Jeoji 2021 - Witness II", Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
2018 "Shanghai Black", Black & White Gallery/Project Space, Brooklyn, New York
2016 "Rebirth", Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
2015 "Earth and Sky: Captured Movement", Charles B. Wang Center , Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
2015 "Transformations", Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
2014 "SeMA GOLD 2014: Nobody", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 "Drawings & Paper Collages", Raum für Kunst und Literatur, Basel, Switzerland
2011 "Walter Gropius Master Artist Workshop Series", Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2010 "The In Between", John Schmid Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2010 "Chairs", O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2009 "Chairs", Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "Life, Dreams, Death and Life", In collaboration with immigrants from Latin America,
Tenement Museum, New York
2007 "A Mid-Career Survey of the Work of Sook Jin Jo: A 20 Year Encounter with Wood - Selected Artworks from New York", 2007 "Resurrection II", Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, New York, NY 2006 Zone Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY 2006 Galerie Gana Beaubourg, Paris, France 2005-06 "My Brother’s
Keeper: Site-Specific Installation", Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 "Inauguration Exhibition for “Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual
Arts"”: 2004 "All Things Work Together", O.K. Harris Works
of Art, New York, NY 2002 "Paper Collages", O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 2002 "Wood Constructions & Paper Collages", Galerie Hertz, Louisville, Kentucky 2002 Korean Cultural Center/Embassy of
Korea, Washington, DC 2002 "Sook Jin Jo and Ellen Petraits", Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis,
IN 2001 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1998 St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY 1997 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1996 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1993 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1993 "KAFA Award exhibition", Korean Culture Center, Los Angeles,
CA 1991 "Inauguration Exhibition", Bo Yoon
Gallery, New York, NY 1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, Birmingham, MI 1991 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 1990 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1988 "Wood Constructions & Paper Collages", Hanaro Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1986 "Today in Seoul", Aunkan Gallery, Osaka, Japan 1985 "Over There", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea Selected Group Exhibitions: 2023 "Path of Contact- Arko Art Center 50th Anniversary", Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2023 "New Acquisitions: And We Have Almost Lost", Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea 2020 "Diving into the Color", National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Gwacheon 2019 "King Sejong and Music:Chiwhapyeong", Presidential Archives, Sejong City, Korea (curated by Cho, Eun Jung) 2019 "ADFF (Architecture and Design Film Festival)
Short Films Walk : NY--Art House(film)", Gandio Blasco, New York, NY 2018 "Changwon Sculpture Biennale", Changwon, Korea 2017 "Seoul Photo Festival", Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (curated by Yongdo Jeong) 2017 "Asia Women Artists", Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea (curated by Sukwon Chang) 2017 "Whispering Woods", Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland (curated by Sibylle Omlin, Nadine Schneider, Josiane Imhasly) 2017 "Everything Exists Now", Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, England 2016 "station MOVES", Meinblau, Berlin, Germany (curated by Yongdo Jeong) 2016 "April the Eternal Voyage", Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea (curated by Chaeyoung Lee) 2014 "The Water: Light from GangJeong", The Arc Museum Plaza, Daegu, Korea (curated by OkReal Kim) 2014 "Faces & Traces", Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2014 "Double Mirror", American University Museum, Washington, DC (curated by Iris Moon) 2013 "Bridges Not Walls", Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia (curated by Martha Kjeseth Johnson) 2012 "Dislocation", Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea 2012 "The Secret Forest", National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, Gwacheon, Korea 2012 "Contemplative Ink", Asian Art Piers, New York, NY (curated by Louise Chen) 2011 "Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011", Cheongju, Korea (curated by Junmo Chung) 2011 "LandArt", Tschäpperli, Basel/Aesch, Switzerland (curated by Margrit Gass) 2010 "In/Process", Forum Schloss Platz, Aarau, Switzerland (curated by Samar Martha) 2010 "Clay City Dreams: Wood & Paper", New York Institute of Technology, New York (curated by Jennifer Mitchell) 2010 "Winter Salon", Elga Wimmer PCC New York (curated by Björn Ressle & Hee Yuen Chun) 2009 "For Excellence", Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul 2008 "New Century New Painting: Recent Acquisitions from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection", Bob Rauschenberg Gallery,
Ft. Myers, FL 2007 "Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of Martin Z. Margulies", Margulies Warehouse,
Miami, FL 2007 "20 New York Artists", Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul 2007 "Freedom Tree", Jamaica Flux,
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica, New York 2006 "Fluid Artcanal International",
Le Landeron, Switzerland (curated by Won-Seok Koh) 2005 "Into The Light: Recently Acquired
Works from the Collection", Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA 2004 "Lodz Biennale", International
Artists’ Museum, Piotrkowska, Poland 2004 "Gwangju Biennale", Gwangju
Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea ( curated by Seok-Won Chang) 2003 "Dreams and Reality: Korean American Contemporary Art", International Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, 2002 "Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the Present", 2002 "New Collections 2001", National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, Kwacheon, Korea 2002 "Containers", Maronie Art Center, Seoul, Korea 2002 "Japan and Korea Art Festival", Ihatov Cultural Center, Ihatov, Japan(curated by Junho Lee) 2002 "Reaction",
Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY 2001 "Fifteen Asian American Artists", Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, New York (curated by Rhonda Cooper) 2000 "Foundation of a Century", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York 2000 "Earth's Altars:Ritual and revelation", Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, New York (curated by Sherry Chayat) 1999 "Twenty Six American Artists", Campo & Campo, Antwerp, Belgium (curated by Marc Lambrechts) 1999 "Color of Life-installation/performance",
7,480,800 cu ft, Socrates Sculpture Park, L.I.C., New York 1999 "The first Seoul Arts Festival for Overseas Koreans", Sponsered by KBS, Gallery Sang, Seoul, Korea 1998 "In the Eye of the Tiger", Il Min Museum, Seoul, Korea 1997 "In the Eye of the Tiger",
Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York (curated by Yuyeon Kim) 1995 "Exploring Undefined Boundaries", Montclair State College,Upper Montclair College, New Jersey 1995 "The Collage Aesthetic: Six Direction", Keuka College,, Keuka Park, NY; 1992 "Three Artists from Korea",
Tenri Gallery, New York, NY 1992 "A Small Bite of the Big Apple: Contemporary Art from O.K Harris", Bobbit Visual Arts Center, Albion,
MI 1992 "Centerpieces", Norton
Center, Centre College, Danvile, KY 1986 "Ecole de Seoul; Special Memorial Invitation: Lee, Seung-Jo", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea (curated by Kim, Bok-Yung) 1991 "24 Korean Artists in New York", Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York 1990 "Wood-The Eternal Medium", Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York 1990 "Aurora", Asian American Arts Centre, New York (curated by Fred Wilson) 1989 "Resonance of Decay", Korea Gallery, New York (curated by Soo Yeon Yi) 1987 "Today's Young Artists", Batangkol Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1987 "Korea:New Painterly Assets", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ( curated by Toshiaki Minemura) 1987 "Ecole de Seoul", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea (curated by Park Seo Bo) 1986 "Ecole de Seoul", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea (curated by Choi Myoung-Young) 1986 "Korea; 31 Contemporary Women Artists", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea (curated by Park Seo-Bo) 1986 "Contemporary
Korean Artists", organized by NEW IMAGES, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan 1986 "Twelve Emerging Artists",
Kwan-Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1986 "Concept of Matter-New Generation", Kwan-Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1986 "Inauguration, In Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1985 "The 11th Seoul Contemporary
Art Festival", Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 1985 "Representation-10",
Seok Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1985 "KIS '85- Kunsan International
Show", Cheonju Art Center, Cheonju, Korea 1985 "New Direction-Summer'85",
Yoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1985 "Frontier",
Hanaro Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1985 "Inauguration; Two Dimensional Works", Hoo/Jun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1984 "A Property of Matter-New
Method of Existence", Youth Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1984 "Seoul/International
Drawing Biennial' 84", Fine Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 1983 "Synchronism", Korean Design Center, Seoul, Korea 1983 "The 10th Independents
Exhibition", National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea Selected Commissioned/ Site Specific/ Collaborative/ Community Involved Projects
: 2023 "Art House Chapel III ", Mission Center, Quezaltepeque, El Salvador (commissioner; Youngja KIm)
2022 "Art House Chapel II ", Mission Center, San Andres Itzapa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala (commissioner; Youngja KIm)
2021 "Witness II", Commissioned byJeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju,Korea
2020 "Hide & Seek", National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Gwacheon 2019 "Lost Memory", In collaboration with “Örebro Dagliga Verksamhet Konsthörnan och Tygtrasan” (those with special needs), sponsored by Örebro Konstall & Örebro AiR (International Artists in Residency), Örebro, Sweden
2018 "Art House Chapel", International School and Christian Mission Academy, Tipitapa, Nicaragua (commissioner; Youngja KIm)
2017 "Witness", Commissioned by Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland
2016 "The Face of Heaven", Commissioned by Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
2014 "Wind", Commissioned by Dalseong Culture and Arts Foundation, Daegu, Korea
2014 "Outdoor Theater & Video", The Arc Museum Plaza, Daegu, Korea
2012 "Libations", Commissioned by UnSPACE:Interior/Architectural Design Firm, New York, NY
2012 "TreeHaus", Commissioned by UnSPACE:Interior/Architectural Design Firm, New York, NY
2011 "Space Between", Commissioned by Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
2009 "Wishing Bells; To Protect and To Serve", LA Metro Detention Center, Commissioned by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, California (commissioned in 2004)
2007 "Freedom Tree", Jamaica Center for Art and Learning, Jamaica, New York
2007 "To The Unknown God", Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2005 "My Brother’s Keeper", Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Isan", Commissioned by Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India
2004 "All Things work Together", O.K. Harris Work of Art, New York, NY
2004 "Wishing Worlds/ We are All in One", In collaboration with local students and community, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas,
El Paso, Texas
2004 "Construction in Process", Working with local college students, International Artist Museum, Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
2001 "Let's Go To School", In collaboration with local students and community, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro School, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
2000 "Meditation Space", Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, New York
1999 "Color of Life", Working with local community and volunteers, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Theatrical Projects /Performances: 2019 "Nocturne in Process", In collaboration with musician, artists & choreographer, Joan James Harris Theater, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2019 "Sejong's Dream", In collaboration with Derek Bermel-Artistic Director of AOC( American Composers Orchestra), Presidential Archives, sponsored by Sejong Cultural Foundation, Korea
2015 "Je Suis...", La Napoule, France 2011 "Coming Together" with Audience, Tschapeliri, Basel/Aesch, Switzerland 2010 "Trabant" Installation: Sook Jin Jo, Music/Performance: Tomek Kolczynski, Video: Oguz Ozlu,
Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland 2008 "Crossroads-Installation & Performance in collaboration with Derek Bermel(clarinet)", Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Brazil 2006 "Where Did You Go?", Zone Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York 2005 "All
Things Work Together ", Peace Performance with Audience, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY 2004 "May
We All Be in Peace, Peace, and Only Peace" Peace Performance with Audience, Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland 1999 "Color of Life-Life
and Death Performance in collaboration with Sean Katsuyama(cello), Paul Bentham(clarenet) & Muriel Vergnaud(flute)",
Awards/Fellowships/Grants/Commissions
2020 "Visual Grant", Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, New York 2019 "Master Artist in Residence", Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2018-19"Residency
Fellowship" Örebro AiR (International Artists in Residence), Örebro, Sweden
2015 "Residency
Fellowship", La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France 2014 "Residency
Fellowship", Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2012 "TreeHaus" Project, A.R.E. Design Award,
A' Design Award 2010 "iaab Fellowship" (International Exchange and Studio Program), Christoph Merian Stifung Foundation, Basel, Switzerland 2010 "Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Grant", Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2008 "National Artist Award", Hachonghyun Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2007 "Residency Fellowship", SACATAR Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil 2009 "Wishing Bells" Project,
Public Plaza at the LA Metro Detention Center, Commissioned by City of Los Angeles Department 2005 "Site-Specific Sculpture
Fellowship", Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India 2004 "Korean Culture and
Arts Foundation Grant", Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2001 "Residency
Fellowship", SACATAR Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil 2000 "Artist in Residence",
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, New York 1999 "Artist Fellowship",
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York 1996 "Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant", The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY 1993 "KAFA Award", Korea Arts
Foundation of America, Santa Monica, California Bibliography:
Periodicals: People's Daily Overseas Edition Japan Monthly Shun Wakizono, Eyes og Asia <70> "Things That Are Thrown Away Have Traces of Life--Sook Jin Jo, an International Artist Living in New York", Februrary, 2024. WhiteHot Magazine Jonathan Goodman, "Sook Jin Jo at Amelie A. Wallace Gallery (SUNY Old Westbury)", December, 2022. Sculpture Jonathan Goodman, “Out of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Sook Jin Jo”,
July/August, 2021, Cover, p.52-63. Sculpture Jonathan Goodman, “Reviews: Sook Jin Jo”, November, 2018, p.67-68. Tikkun Aryeh Cohen, “The Place of Politics: Public Protest and the Rabbinic Construction of Space”, March, 2017. ARTEFUSE Jonathan Goodman, "Visions of the Cross: Photographs by Sook Jin Jo", October 10, 2017. Public Art, Yoon, Jin-sup, “Artworks with sublimity and tragic beauty as a metaphor of life”,
January 2017, p.74-81. Fronterad, Jonathan Goodman, “Sook Jin Jo: Approaching the Mystery of Things”,
January 7, 2016, arte. Sculpture, "Itinerary", December 2015, p.10. Seoul Art Guide, Daljin Kim, "Sook Jin Jo invited to SeMA Gold", April 2014, p.84. Sculpture, Elena Goukassian, "Commissions", September 2013, p.22-23. SouthEastern College Art Conference, Margaret Richardson, "Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents:Sook Jin JO",
Volumne XVI Number 2, 2012, p.229-233. Sculpture, Jonatahn Goodman, "Reviews: Sook Jin Jo", October 2011, p.71-72. Kunstbulletin, Simon Baur, "Sook Jin Jo-In der sauberen Schweiz wirken meine Arbeiten expressiver ",
November 2010. Art
News, Barbara MacAdam,"Reviews: Sook Jin Jo, OK Harris",
April 2010, p.117. World Sculpture News,
Robert C. Morgan, "Reviews: Sook Jin Jo at OK Harris Gallery", Hong Kong, Volume 16 Number, Winter 2010, p.74. ArtScene
, Diane Calder, "Sook Jin Jo", Los Angeles, 2009, p.14-15. Art in Culture, Jang Seung-Yeon, "Conversation with Installation Artist Sook Jin Jo & Musician Lee Sang-Eun ",
Korea, April 2008, p.186-191. Space, Yu Jae-Kil, "Meditative Space for Others ", Korea, October 2007, p.146-150. Wolganmisool, Yongdo Jeong, "Korean Report Overseas: Sook Jin Jo", Korea, November 2007, p.142-147. Sculpture, Sook Jin Jo, "News", April 2007, p.11. Art in America, "Floodwall's Originality Challenged", March 2007, p.207. Asahi Journal, Yumi Kori, "All Things Work Together", Japan, December 2006, P. 153-155. Sculpture, Virginia Nostrand Lee, "Commissions: Sook Jin Jo", July/August 2006, p.20. Sculpture, Jonathan Goodman, Reviews: New York," Sook Jin Jo, OK Harris ", October
2005, p.28. Art
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a Biennial", April 2005, p.55-57. Art
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Heartney, "Sook Jin Jo at OK Harris", April 2005, p.155. Contemporary,
Slawomir Margec, "News-Warsaw", no 68, 2004, p.18-19. KoreAm,
Minju Pak, "Reuse Recycle Renew", November 2003, p.62-63. Sculpture,
Robert C. Morgan, "The Spokes of the Wheel", September 2003, Cover, p.5, p.29-33. Art in
Culture (Seoul, Korea),
Yongdo Jeong and Robert C. Morgan, "Sook Jin Jo", September 2002, Cover, p.25, 26, p.92-99. Wolgan
Misool (Seoul, Korea),
Mijin Kim, September, 2002, p.54-57. Nuvo,
Julie Pratt McQuiston, "Weaving Meaning", June 12, 2002. Illinois
Alumni,
Scott Spilky, "A Brazilian Odyssey: The Art of Sacatar", March/April 2002. Misulsegae,
Jin Han, "Special Feature: Noteworthy Artists of This Year Selected by Correspondents of Misulsegae: Sook Jin Jo and Ricci Albenda", Sculpture,
Jonathan Goodman, “Reviews: Sook Jin Jo, O.K. Harris”, June 2001, p.74-75. ART News,
Mary Schneider Enriquez,“New York Reviews: Sook Jin Jo”, June 2001, p.133. NY ARTS,
Donald Kuspit, “Sook Jin Jo”, February 2001, p.41. Korean
Culture & Arts Journal,
Young Sook Park, ” Sook Jin Jo”, July,2000, p.116-117. Review,
Dominique Nahas, "In the Eye of Tiger; Exit Art", June 15, 1997, p.7. Review,
Robert c. Morgan, "In the Eye of Tiger (A Survey of Contemporary Korean Artist);
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Art, Amy
Schrier, "Flash Asia: International Asian Art in Brief", March-April 1996, p.55. Art in
America, Eleanor Heartney, "Report
from Korea: The New Players ", July 1993, p.35-41. Art in
America, Amy
Fine Collins and Bradley Collins, “Reviews: Sook Jin Jo”, June 1990,P.177-178. Art in
Pocket, Ohno Ikuhiko, "News
from Seoul", Tokyo, Japan, Spring 1986, p.178-180. Bibliography:
Books, Catalogues: 2021"Traces", Sook Jin Jo: Disappearing Buildings : A Visual History, Essay: Robert C Morgan, 2018"Seoul Cross", Sook Jin Jo: Book of Photography of Crosses in Seoul, Essay: Jonathan Goodman, 2017" A Pleasant Art Lesson for Leaders, Kyunghee Yoo, Maroniebooks Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea. p.139-141. 2016
"Sook Jin Jo: Seeing Beyond the Clouds", Essay: Margaret Richardson, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China. 2016
"station MOVES", Essay: Yongdo Jeong, Martin Hartung, Rabea Rugenstein, MeinBlau, Berlin/ Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul. 2016
"April the Eternal Voyage", Preface: Eunju Choi, Essay: Chaeyoung Lee, Myungwoo Noh, Seonryoung Cho, Hyosil Yang, Wonmo Ryang, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea. 2015
"Sook Jin Jo: Transformations", Essay: Sara M. Picard, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island. 2014
"SeMA GOLD 2014: Nobody", Preface: Kim Hong-hee, Essay: Yeo Kyung-hwan, Young-Jin Kwon, 2014
"Face & Traces", Preface: Juri Steiner, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China. 2013
"ART PARKS - A Tour of America's Sculpture Parks and Gardens", Author & Introduction: Francesca Cigola, 2012
"Dislocation", Preface: Kim Sunhee, Essay: Lee Soukyoun, Kang Hyoyeon, Daegu Art Museum. 2011 "Sook Jin Jo: Complete Works 1985-2011", Essay: Jonathan Godman, Donad Kuspit, Todd Siler, Robert C. Morgan, Simon Baur, 2010
"Elegy", Sook Jin Jo: Book of Photography of Cemeteries in Itaparica, Brazil, Essay: Richard Vine, 2011 "THE MARTIN Z. MARGULIES COLLECTION Painting and Sculpture",
Essay: Peter Plagens, Klaus Kertess, 2009 "For Excellence: The 11 KAFA Awarded Artists", Essay: Howrad Fox, David Pagel, MoA(Museum of Art), Seoul National University. 2009 "Sook Jin Jo: Wishing Bells", Essay: Donald Kuspit, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, California. 2007 "Sook Jin Jo; A 20 Year Encounter with Wood;
Selected Artworks from New York", 2006 "A Sculpture Reader (Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980)", Edited by Glenn Harper/ Twylene Moyer, 2006 "Socrates Sculpture Park", Introduction; Alyson Baker and Stuart Match Suna, 2006 "Sook Jin Jo (New York/Paris)", Essay: Richard Vine, Korean Cultural Service NY and Paris. 2004 "Sook Jin Jo(Collaborative Public Art, Sculpture and Drawings 1994-2004)", 2003 "At the Crossroads (Celebrating the Centennials of Korean Immigration to the US)", Wolhee Choe, New York: Korean Cultural Service. 2002 "Unexpected Selections
from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection art from 1985 to the present", Roni Feinstein, 2002 "Extraordinary Things: A Study of Contemporary Art through Material Culture", Terry A. Barnhart, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. 2002 "Containers", Hyekyung Kim, Maronie Art Center/ Korea Arts and Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea. 2002 "Korea Art Festival", Sato Ryoseke, Ihatov Cultural Center, Ihatov, Japan. 2001 "Fifteen Asian American Artists", Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony
Brook, Stony Brook, New York. 2000 "Foundation of a Century",
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York. 2000 "Earth's Altars:Ritual
and revelation", Stone Quarry hill Art Park,Cazenovia, New York. 1999 "Twenty-Six American
Artists", Campo &Campo, Antwerp, Belgium. 1998 "The Ist Seoul Arts
Festival for Overseas Koreans, Introduction:Bong Kyu Kim", Seuol, Korea. 1997 "In The Eye of the Tiger",
Forward: Ahn Kyung-Hee, Jennete Ingbergman, Papo Colo, Il Min Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 1996 "Sook Jin Jo", Essay: Donald Kuspit, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York. 1994 "Contemporary Art in Korea", Seong-Rok Seo, MunYae Publishing Co., Seoul, Korea p.269. 1993 "New York
25 Hour", Seok Won Jang, Ja Yu Sae Gae, Korea p.13, p.90. 1993 "KAFA Awardee:Sook Jin
Jo", Essay: Howard Fox, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California. 1993 "The Collage Aesthetic:
Six Directions", Essay: Gary Jurysta, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York. 1992 "Ecole de Seoul, Its Retrospect and prospect", Essay;:Kim, Bok-Yung, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea. 1987 "New Painterly Assets of Korea", Essay: Minemura Toshiaki, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 1986 "Ecole de Seoul", Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Bibliography:
Newspapers: The Korea Times (LA),
Christine Eun Seon Ha, " Impressionable Artwork... Leading to Healing and Inspiration ", March 10, 2023, A12. Hangil Times (Korea),
Jinsan Kim,"Art Jeoji 2021 - Witness II: Sound & Video Installation by Sook Jin Jo, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art,", March 8, 2021. Jaemin Ilbo (Korea),
Suhwan Kim, "Unexpected Stimuli Captivating 'Me'-- Witness II by Sook Jin Jo, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art,", March 10, 2021. NA (Sweden),
Jesper Karlsson, "Här presenterar New York-konstnären sitt offentliga verk – på Norr i Örebro: ”Det här är unikt”", May 11 2019. Maeil Newspaper ,
Kyung-Dal Lee, "Abandoned Wood Transformed into Artwork by an Artist's Hands", September 12, 2014, Art. L.A. Weekly,
Patrick Range McDonald, "Then & Now: L.A. Riots, 20 Years Later", April 26, 2012, Features. The Herald Dispatch ,
David Lavender, "A Vision in the Raw",April 5, 2011, Life.
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(New York), Sukie Park, "Tough World, People Whispering...150 Chairs", January 19,
2010. JoongAng Daily
(Korea), Limb Jae-un, "Space for Reflection", July 15, 2009, Feature 7. Dong-Ah Il Bo
(Korea), Koh Mi-Seok, "Wishing Bells in LA", March 10,
2009, culture A23. The Korea Times
(Korea),
Park Sun-Young, " New York Artist Sook Jin Jo's Exhibition in Korea", September 10,
2007, Art 30. The New York Times, Lisa Chamberlain, An Art Gallery in the Lobby,
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The
Brooklyn Rail, James Kalm,
“Sook Jin Jo -My Brother’s Keeper”, February,
2006 Gazeta
Wyborcza Lodz(Poland),
Izabella Adaamczewaska, “Oasa dia sztuki”, September 21,2004,p.1. El
Paso Times, “Wishing Worlds”, July 4, 2004, p.3F. Los
Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic, “A Step Toward a Larger
Goal”, October 14, 2003. The
Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, “Korean American Art, with
an Emphasis on American” August 22, 2003. The
Commercial Appeal (Memphis,TN), Jon W. Sparks, “Ribbons
of Korean life tie the inner visions unfolding in “Seoul To Soul”
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Herald, Elisa
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Times(Korea),
Michael Anderson, "Art that can Hardly Contain itself", August 18,
2002, culture. Ihatov
Times, Sakaki
Sadoru, "Art Festival of Japan and Korea Join Auspices", March 25,
2002, p.2. The Korea
Daily, Eun Sook
Rim, "Art Festival Celebrating World Cup in Korea and Japan", March
10, 2002. Korea
Times of New York ,
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Daily, Eun Sook
Rim, "Mural Installation at the School in Brazil", November 17, 2001,
p. A-10. The Segye
Times, Hana Lee,
"Cover Story: Artist Sook Jin Jo's Mural at the School in South America",
October 29, 2001, p.1. Syracuse
Herald American,
Katherine Rushworth, "Earth's Altar: Stone Quarry Hill offers a chance
to pause and reflect", July 9, 2000, p.16-17. Cazenovia
Republican, Margaret
Potter, "Focus on artists at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park",June 2000. Korea
Times New York,
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P.A12. Newsday,
"Color of life-Sook
Jin Jo" photos by Moises Saman, September 28, 1999 Western
Queens Gazette,
Linda Wilson, "Socrates Sculpture Park- A battle to fit Every Cubic Foot
with Artists' Handiwork", August 18, 1999, p.15 Q Guide,
Kate Bobby, "Sculpture Park celebrates a new :Sculptures herald a new future
for beloved site", May 20, 1999 Chorus, Dan
Monick,
"Skeletons", Vol. 1, issue 3, 1997, p.36. New York
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Cotter, "In the Eye of Tiger"; Exit Art . June 20, 1997, C22 The Central
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on Sook Jin Jo's Performance Piece", New York, May 19, 1999,
p.1, p. A-9 Segye
Times, Ok Ki Kim, "
Sook Jin Jo's Public Art Work at Socrates Sculpture Park", May
19, 1999, p.1, p.5 Segye
Times, Ok Ki Kim, "Four
Artists Invited for Space World Gallery Opening", Space World-Segye
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Kang, "In The Eye of Tiger", Seoul, Korea, Feburary 16, 1999 The Central
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p.1 The Korea
Daily, Chang Kyu Lee, "New
Challenger-Report Series: Artist Sook Jin Jo", Seoul, Korea,
Jan 6, 1996, p.20 The Korea
Daily (New York), Tae Soo Jeong,
"Sook Jin Jo Solo Show; An Expressive Living Energy", Sep.17, 1993 The Korea Times
(New York),
" The Second KAFA Awardee-Sculptor Sook Jin Jo; Abstract Form From Ruined
Wood boards" May 10, 1993, p. A9 The Korea
Times L.A, Seong Eun Kim, "Sook
Jin Jo - The Reward Of KAFA Award", May 6, 1993 The Korea
Daily (New York), Min S. Lee,
"Will to the Transcendental; A Prominent Korean-Artist Sook Jin Jo", Sep. 24, 1992 Cho Sun
Il Bo(New York),
"Bo Yoon Gallery Opening Exhibition Sook Jin Jo", May 3, 1991 The Korea Daily
(Michigan), Jun S. Choi,
"Orientalistic Mysticism;
New York Artist Sook Jin Jo at Michigan', April 1, 1991 Metro
Times, (Detroit, MI), Manon Meilgaard,
"O.K.Harris: The Raw
and The Polished", May 17, 1991, p.13-14. The Korean
Journal U.S.A, Dong Sin Hahn,
"A Person of the Week:
Artist Sook Jin Jo", Jan. 26, 1991, p.1, 14, 15 The Korean
Journal U.S.A, Dong Sin Hahn,
"Wood Board Painter
of New York-Sook Jin Jo", Jan.12, 1991 Segye Times
(New York), Ok K. Kim,
"The Harmony of Wood Grain", Dec. 14, 1990 The Korea Times
(New York), " Wood board Aesthetic,
Sook Jin Jo Exhibition at 0.K.Harris Gallery, Dec. 14, 1990 Television/Video/Internet
Coverage: 2023
Narrow is The Way 33 minutes Documentary Film on Art House Chapels in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador 2023
K-AuctionInterview with Sook Jin Jo, Interviewer: Lee, Seong Hyun, Seoul, Korea March, 2023
Art House 10 minutes Documentary Film on Art House in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala; 2021
Art Korea TV 18 minutes Interview with Sook Jin Jo, Interviewer: Martino Kim, 2021
MMCA ArtistTalk/Interview: Sook Jin Jo 90 minutes & 20 minutes, 2019
Art House 10 minutes Documentary Film on Art House in Tipitapa, NIcaragua; 2018
My America Ep3
20 minutes Documentary Film on Sook Jin Jo; Director: Brian Kim; 05/20/18
Raggedy Anns Foot, Elisabeth Condon, " China, Two Perspectives: Sook Jin Jo & Yun Fei Ji", New York 2013
KAP(Korean Artist Project with Korean Art Museums) Interview with Sook Jin Jo, Seoul, Korea 2010
Sook Jin Jo "Outside In" One hour twenty three minutes Documentary Film on Sook Jin Jo; Director: Shayne Barker, 01/27/07
Arude Jonathan Goodman, “10 Questions for Sook Jin Jo”, New York 2007
Sook Jin Jo "Collecting Materials"
60 minutes Documentary Film on Sook Jin Jo; Photographer & Director: Tae Hoon Lee, 01/27/07
DAILY SERVING:an international forum for the contemporary visual arts Jonathan Marshall, “Sook Jin Jo”, USA 06/21/04 5
o’clock News “Sook Jin Jo’s Wishing Worlds”
Interviewed by Felipa Solis, Channel 9 (KTSM), El Paso, Texas 09/16/02
WMBC-TV
Sook Jin Jo at O.K.Harris Gallery, New York/ New Jersey 11/13/01 New
York Seoul Career Forum
Robert C. Morgan, " Sook Jin Jo", November 2001 01/04/01
Art Now Ms.Voice Internet, New York, NY. 06/03/99
Color of Life
(thirty minutes Documentary Film on Sook Jin Jo); Director: Gu-Teag Kang; 11/07/98 First
Seoul Arts Festival for Overseas Koreans,
KBS Overseas Koreans Foundation, Seoul, Korea 02/22/96 Cultural
Salon WMBC-TV, Sook Jin Jo Interview: 20 Minutes, New York- NY, NJ 02/16/96 Chun RI Ahn
Ji Sook Kwon, DNT Art News in New York, Seoul, Korea 02/06/96 World
Story SBS Radio
Co., Artist Sook Jin Jo (interview 10 Minutes), Seoul, Korea 1990 Art
Today Hilton Kramer, Ivan C. Karp, No.1 Vol.2, New York, NY
Selected Public/ Private
Collections: National Museum of Modern & Contemporary
Art in Korea Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea LA Metro Detention Center, Los Angeles, California Erie Museum of Art, Erie,
Pennsylvania Art House, Christian Mission Academy/International School, Tipitapa, Nicaragua
Housatonic Museum of Art,
Westport, Connecticut Moran Museum Sculpture Garden, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea Stone Quarry Hill Art Park,
Cazenovia, New York Yongji Park, Changwon, Korea Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea Young Un Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kyoungki Do, Korea Jeju Museum of
Art/Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea Global Arts Village, Ghitorni, New
Delhi, India Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro School,
Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil Dalsung County, Dasegu, Korea Girlsclub Collection, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Christian Mission Academy, Tipitapa, Nicaragua Mr. & Mrs. Han Huskey,
Los Angeles, California Dr. Marvin Klein,
Farmington Hills, Michigan Toshiaki Minemura,
Tokyo, Japan Bo K.Yoon,
Seoul, Korea Myoung Y. Choi,
Seoul, Korea Moon-Shin Hong,
Seoul, Korea YJ KIm, Orange County, California S. Baxam,
New York, New York P. Loach,
New York, New York C. Lee,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong W. Siu,
Shanghai, China YI Baik,
Boston, Washington D.C. John di Domenico,
New York, New York Dr. & Mrs. Peter Flubacher,
Basel, Switzerland Martin Z. Margulies Collection,
Miami, Florida Buk Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea Workshops, Artist Talks and Art Related Experiences:
Selected Artist's Essays:
Wolgan
Misool (Seoul, Korea), Inspiration from Artistic Space LA Napoule, February 2016, p.136-139. Art in Culture (Seoul, Korea),
우리 시대의 정신성을 찾아서 In Search of the Spirit in Our Time, March, 2014, p.126-127. Seoul Art Guide,
남동생의 파수꾼 My Brother’s Keeper, February 2012, p.120. Art in Culture(Seoul, Korea),
나믓가지의 얼굴들 The faces of Branches, September 2011, p.42-43. Segye Times(New York),
50 days in Itaparica, every Thursday from January 2002 to June 2002.
Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
traveling to:Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA;Slippery, Rock University, Slippery, Rock, PA(curated by Gary Jurysta)
Socrates Sculpture Park, L.I.C., New York
of Cultural Affairs (2004), Los Angeles, California
January 2002, p.46-51.
Art Asia Pacific,
Dominique Nahas, "In the Eye of Tiger; Exit Art", Issue 18,1998, p.30-31.
Art
Today(Video Magazine),
Ivan Karp, No.1, Vol.2, 1990.
Noonbit Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea, 143 pages.
Noonbit Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea.
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Preface: Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Princeton Architectural Press, p. 29.
Maroniebooks Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea.
Noonbit Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea.
Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Inc., Miami, Florida, p.140.
Essay: Donald Kuspit, Arko Art Center/ Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea.
Essay: Robert C. Morgan, ISC Press and University of Washington Press, p.218-222.
Essay by Mark di Suvero, Thomas Hanrahan, Irving Sandler etc., Yale University Press, p.152.
Essay: Donald Kuspit, Robert C. Morgan, Kate Bonansinga, University of Texas, El Pas.
The Art Museum at the Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
on View at FIU, is a Whimsical Tour of the Post-Modern Age", September
22, 2002, p.3
Director: Brian Kim & Sook Jin Jo, New York, NY
Director: William Chuck Moss, New York, New York
Seoul, Korea
National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Korea (MMCA), Korea
Director: William Chuck Moss & Sheba Remy Kharbanda, New York, New York
Voice of America (VOA), Washington DC
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
WMBC-TV; televised in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut; KBS
Documentary Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Artist Talk on Zoom, organized by Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
May 9, 2023
Artist Talk on Zoom, organized by Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota
November 16, 2022
Artist Talk, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York
November 19, 2020
Artist Talk, Central Connecticut State University(CCAU), New Britain, Connecticut
October 25, 2019
Master Artist Community Outreach, Southeast Museum of Photography, Madorsky Theater, Daytona College, Florida
2019
2019 Inter-disciplinary Curatorial Panel, i-Park Foundation, East Haddam, Connecticut
October 1, 2019
Artist Talk, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea
September 27, 2019
Artist Talk, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
September 24, 2019
Artist Talk, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
April 12, 2019
Artist Talk, Örebro Konstskola, Örebro, Sweden
April 29, 2019
Artist Talk, Örebro Konstall, Örebro, Sweden
March 8, 2019
Artist Talk, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY
November 17, 2017
Artist Talk, Ahl Foundation, New York, NY
April 18, 2017
Artist Talk, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY
April 2, 2015
Artist Talk, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
March 11, 2013
Artist Talk, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
August 31, 2012
Artist Talk, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
February 24, 2012
Studio Visit, New York Professional Outreach Program, University of Massachusetts, MA
October 5, 2011
AHL Foundation Workshop, Korean Cultural Service, New York
April 15-17, 2011
Master Artist Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
April 14, 2011
Artist Talk, Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
November 9, 2010
Panelist, "Maturity in Art: Reflecting on Generational Differences",
Po Kim & Silvia Wald Foundation, New York
March 2, 2010
Artist Talk, DOCK(aktuelle Kunst aus Basel), Basel, Switzerland
September 25, 2009
Artist Talk, "Promoting Tolerance Through the Arts", The institute of International Education, United States Department of State, Washington D.C.
October, 2008
Workshop, ESOL Students from Jacob Riis Settlement House, Tenement Museum, New York
March, 2008
Artist Talk, AHL Foundation, New York
October 24, 2007
Artist Talk, Art department, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
September, 2007
Artist Talk, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
September, 2007
Artist Talk, Seong-Sin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
February 20, 2007
Artist Talk,Art & Design Class, New School/ Parsons School of Design, New York
June 1, 2006
Panelist, "Living Cultural Democracy: Arts In Changing Communities", American
For The Arts, Milwaukee, WI
September 15, 2005
Artist Talk, Department of Art and Design, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair,
New Jersey
April, 2005
Juror, Artist Residency Fellowships, SACATAR Foundation, Pasadena, Los Angeles
March, 2005
Artist Talk, Asian Art Study, New School/ Parsons School of Design, New York
June 3, 2004
Viisting Artist, Arts Department, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas
March, 2004
Studio Visit, Fine Arts Department of Graduate School, Long Island University,
Long Island
December 15, 2002
Artist Talk, Arts Department, Rhode Island College, Rhode Island
September 19, 2001
Artist Talk, João Ublado Riberio School, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil
April, 2001
Artist Talk, Asian Art Study, New School/ Parsons School of Design, New York
November, 2000
Lecture of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, organized by Korean
Central daily News, New York.
August, 2000
Artist Talk, Art and Architecture Meeting, Sook Jin Jo studio, New York
April, 1998
Juror, Sculpture for University of Connecticut, Connecticut Commission of the
Art, Harford, Connecticut
November, 1997
Juror, Connecticut Artist Fellowships, Connecticut Commission of the Art, Harford,
Connecticut
April, 1997
Artist Talk, Asian Program, School of Visual art, New York
June, 1987- May, 1988
Reporter/writer, Art Post – Fine Arts Magazine, A.P.I., Seoul Korea
1985, 86 Winter Semester
Instructor, Art and Life, Korean Broadcasting Communication University, Incheon,
Korea
August, 1985
Organizing Committee, Frontier Festival 프런티어 제전, Seoul, Korea