Fall 2022 seminar: M.S.AAD. candidate, architecture
Jin Kyung Cho is a research-based curator and architect. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea, in 2014. Cho has worked on and organized numerous public projects involving art, architecture, and urbanism. She was a curatorial research and production assistant for the 4th Anyang Public Art Project, titled Public Story (2012-14). From 2016 to 2020, she worked on various projects at New York-based Obra Architects, including serving as lead architect on a multipronged project titled "Perpetual Spring" included in the exhibition Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future (2019-20). Cho's independent projects include participation in the exhibition Lotus Land (2017) at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju and Interlude (2017) at Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea in Seoul. She is a 2022 grantee of the Arts Council Korea International Exchange Program. Cho's current research is focused on the development of environmental and ecological art and architecture since the emergence of earth art in the 1960s. She is the inaugural Tony Smith Foundation research 2022 Spring fellow.