Jaiyoung Cho Korea, b. 1979

Jaiyoung Cho (b.1979) employs a boundary-pushing sculptural language to reconstruct the order of objects and spaces, challenging fixed perceptions through a physical engagement with the viewer. Her practice spans a wide range—from small objects and furniture to interior environments and architectural structures—constantly reinterpreting surfaces and forms.

Cho works with lightweight, fragile materials such as cardboard, thread, and fabric applying a precise formal language to create incomplete and flexible structures through shape, contour, and the surrounding negative space. Through notions of skin, surface, and structure, she invites viewers to reconsider familiar orders and to question the boundaries and meanings of everyday things. Her embrace of delicate materials facilitates a process of form emergence, where attitude and materiality manifest directly as shape. Rather than fixed entities, her works unfold continuously—extending, intertwining, and emphasizing transformation as their core. Beyond merely generating new forms, Cho manifests layers of perception that exist beyond familiar systems of order.

Educated in sculpture at Ewha Womans University and its graduate school, and holding a degree in Fine Arts from the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, Cho has held numerous solo exhibitions domestically and internationally. Her work has also been featured in prominent group exhibitions and public projects, including 《SongEun Art Award》(SongEun, 2024), 《TOGETHER》(Paradise Art Space, 2023), 《apmap review》(Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2022), and 《Kak》(Hite Collection, 2022).