1961 Born in Seoul
1987 B.F.A the Dept of Fine Art. The College of Fine Arts. Hong-Ik University
Works and lives in Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Jeong-Hwa Choi: Dandelion
General Merchandise, Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, Korea
2018 MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2018, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2017 Gesture, Thing, P21, Seoul, Korea
House, House, Eunpyeong History Hanok Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 Happy Together, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2015 "Side" with Onyang Folk Museum and Choi Jeong-hwa,Onyang Folk Museum, Asan Korea
O-on: Park View Green, Beijing China
2014 The Choi Jeong Hwa: Natural Color, Multiple Flower Show, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
Tathata, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka
Leeum 10th Aniversary Exhibition 'Beyond and Between', Leeum, Seoul
2013 Life, Life, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu
KABBALA, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
321 Art Community Project, Tainan
Total Support, Total Museum, Seoul
Thank You!, Taoyuan Landscape Art Festival, Taoyuan
2012 Love. Sweet. Life, K11, Hong Kong
Peace of Everyone, the MOTHER of DESIGN, K11, Marunouchi HOUSE, Tokyo
2011 Redcat Gala Show, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 In the Mood for Love, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2009 Shine a Lightn Cultural Centre UK, London
O.K!, Towada Art Centre
2008 Plastic Paradise, Point Ephemere, Paris
2007 Welcome, Wolverhampton
Truth, Disney Hall, Red Cat Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Believe it or not, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 Disrocation-Rerocation, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 Choi Jeong-Hwa, Oz Gallery, Paris, France
1988 Choi Jeong-Hwa, YeonHui Design Center, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Ssamzie Space 1998-2008-2018: Still Scary Children, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2017 yeongChang Olympic Memorial Exhibition, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Airair Community Project, Nara, Japan
Garbage X Instructions, National Folk Museum, Seoul, Korea
Harmony of discord, Museum of Interim Art, Beijing, China
Asian Hoerang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
Honololulu Biennale, Honolulu City Hall/Wad Village, Hawaii, USA
Chibais, Calligraphy Museum of the Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
sing death, Seoul Arts Center Calligraphy Museum, Seoul
Spring Play: Mountains, Flowers, Rice, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Creative Waterway, YCC Temporary, Yokohama, Japan
2016 Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Station, Tokyo, Japan
The 20th Anniversary Vogue Korea MODE & MOMENTS: 100 Years of Korean Fashion, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
Saitama Trienale, Saitama, Japan
Jikji Korea, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, Korea
Ibaraki Prefecture Northern Art Festival (Kenpoku Art), Irabaki, Japan
Mega City Asia, Boston Museum of Art, Boston, USA
Helsinki Festival, Senette Square, Helsinki, Finland
2015 FLOWER POWER, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
Alchemy, Peninsula Hotel Chicago, Chicago, USA
Funfenfen, Tainan, Taiwan
Flowers to Breathe Together, Han River Public Art Project, Seoul, Korea
Transformers, MAXXI National Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Texty Food, France Pavilion, Milan Expo 2015, Milan, Italy
2014 Art14, Pearl Lam Galleries, London
Natural color, multiple flower show, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka
Leeum 10th Aniversary Exhibition '交感 Beyond and Between', Leeum, Seoul
2013 Playground 2013, Kota Kinabalu
321 Art Community Project, Tainan
Total Support, Total Museum, Seoul
Breathing Flower, Very Fun Park 2013, Taipei
Whatchamacallit, Things Varying in Form from things to beings, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju
Present of The Sun, Setouchi Triennale 2013, Shodojima
Iro Iro Iro, Kunisaki Art Project, Kunisaki
2012 World Biennal Forum Venue Design, Gwangju
Welcome, Sucheon
Tina B Project, San Salvatore, Prague
Phantoms of Asia, Civic Centre Plaza, San Francisco, California
Wish, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk
Festival of the World, Hayward Gallery, London
Arsenale 2012, Kyiv Biennale, Kyivraine
Perth International Art Festival, Perth,
Jean Prouve X Choi Jeong Hwa, Vitra Seoul, Seoul
2011 Live Live, Kota Kinabalu
Lingua franca, St. Moritz
Welcome, Ecoland
Revive, Gwangju
My Own Private Neon Oasis, Brisbane, Australia
Whatchamacallit, Gwangju
Lingua Franca, St Moritz, Switzerland
Cosmos, Oulim Art Gallery, Gyeonggi-do
Happy Together, Pohang Museum, Pohang
2010 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
By Day By Night, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
SHContemporary 10, Shanghai
Art HK 10, Hong Kong
Plastic Garden, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Roppongi Art Night, Mori Museum, Tokyo
Kirishima Open Air 10th ‘Workshop’ Japan
2009 ‘Your Bright Future’, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
‘Your Bright Future’, LACMA, Los Angeles
2008 Opening Exhibition, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
D’art Contemporain au Chateau D’oiron
Spring Art Show, Space-c, Seoul
New Project, Pekin Fine Art, Beijing
Gala Party, Red Cat Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Peppermint Candy, Santiago, Chile
Trace Root, Arco, Madrid, Spain
Elastic Taboo, Wein, Austria
2006 Gwangju Biennale – The First Chapter, Trace Root, Gwangju
Special Project, Vivocity, Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Art & Industry, SCAPE Biennial, Christ Church, New Zealand
Open-Air Exhibition, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Through the Looking Glass, Asian House, London
2005 Dressing Ourselves, Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy
Design Edgen Pavilion, Suntec City, Singapore
Until Now, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Secret Beyond the Door, Venice Biennialn Pavilion, Venice, Italy
CP Biennale, CP Center, Jakarta, Indonesia
Roomscape, Ssamziegil Gallery, Seoul
2004 Kim Jonghak-Choi, Jeong-Hwa, Garam Gallery, Seoul
Liverpool Biennial, Lime Station, Liverpool
Happy Happy Project, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool
Public Communications with GASUM, Melbourne Art Fair
This is not a love lettern Cultural Foundation Center, Seoul
The Tale of Seouln Cultural Foundation Center, Seoul
2003 Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hill, Tokyo
Lyon Biennale, Lyon
Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Yang Gwang Chan Ran, Biz Art Center, Shanghai
Virgin Road, Ssamzie space, Seoul
Time after Time, Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco
2002 Happy Together, Kagoshima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima
The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius Lithuania
Orient. Extreme, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
Korean & Japanese Contemporary Prints Exhibition, Gallery OM, Osaka Japan
Gwangju Biennale, World Cup Art Soccer Korea and Japan, Gwangju
2001 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Station, Yokohama
Lunapark/Contemporary Art from Korea, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2000 Bar Epicurus, Mitsubishi-Jisho Atrium, Hukuoka
Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis/ Pompidou Center
AIR AIR, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
1999 Lord of the Rings, Hasselt Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
Tachigawa Festival, Tachigawa Station, Tokyo
Hot Air, Grandship Convention and Art Center, Shizuoka
Slowness Speed, National Gallery of Victory, Melbourne, Australia
Between the Unknown Straits, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Art Center, Seoul
1998 Sao Paulo Biennial, Ciccilo Matarazzo Pavilion, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Seamless, De Appel Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Taipei Biennial, Site of Desire, Taipei Museum
Awards
1986 Participation Prize in the JoongAng Fine Art Prize
1987 Grand Prize in the JoongAng Fine Art Prize
1997 The 5th Total Museum Prize
2005 Ilmin Art Prize, Ilmin Cultural Foundation
2006 Korea Artist Prize, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Public Collections
TATE Gallery
Arario Gallery
Art Sonje Center
Tokyo Mori Museum
Canberra Museum
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Leeum Museum
Houston Museum of Art
Auckland Museum
MMCA, Korea Rep.
Daegu Art Museum
New Museum
Towada Museum
MAXXI Italia Contemporary Museum
Kirishima Open-Air Museum
SoMA
EMAAR, UAE
Bucheon Techno Park
Houses of Parliament, Korea Rep.
Pohang City
Cheongju City
Uljin City
Anyang City
Yokohama City
Vivo City
City Hall of Lyon
Korean Cultural Centre UK, London
Samsung Life
SSAMZIE co.
Shinsaege Department Store
Liverpool Station
Shodoshima Island
Le Consotium
Winser Hotel
