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 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