Chunghi Choo

Chunghi Choo (b. 1938 Inchon, Korea) is a metalworker. She creates jewelry, hollowware, flatware, sculptures, mixed media objects, and textile art works.

She received a B.F.A. from Ewha Women’s University in Korea and a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art in the Jewelry and Metal Arts Program at the University of Iowa. Her work can be found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Cooper-Hewitt, Philadephia Museum of Art, and the Long House Reserve, among others.

Chunghi Choo, Decanter, R.H. Hensleigh and Tim Thayer photograph, Courtesy of Cranbrook Art Museum, © Chunghi Choo





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