Chunghi Choo
South Korean jeweler (born 1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chunghi Choo (born 1938) is a jewelry designer and metalsmith who was born in Incheon, Korea in 1938. She received a BFA degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, where she majored in Oriental painting and studied philosophy of Oriental art and Chinese brush calligraphy.[1] She moved to the United States in 1961 to study metalsmithing, weaving, and ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she received an MFA in 1965.[2]
Chunghi Choo | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Iowa |
Known for | Metalsmith and Jewelry Designer |
She taught jewelry and metal arts at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History from 1968 to 2015 and is currently Professor Emeritus.[2]
Her works have been exhibited worldwide and are found in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London;[3] Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris; the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[4] the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; the Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen; the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[5] Museum of Modern Art[6] and Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Art Institute of Chicago;[7] and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[8] among others.[9] Her work, Blooming Vessel, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.[10][11]