January Yoon Cho Art Studio

Interdisciplinary visual artist exploring relationships between individuals and their environments

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The Walk Project

explores our connection to the environment through photography, video, drawing, and the artist’s walk performances across diverse American desert and waterscapes, incorporating silhouette drawings of biological life forms. The Desert Walk Series comprises approximately one hundred walk performances. The Water Walk Series is currently in progress.

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THE WALK PROJECT

is a fiscally sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. More info about the project and TAX-Deductible Donation.


AWARDS
January Yoon Cho’s Umbilical City has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Support for Artist Grant, YF 2026. This interdisciplinary project explores the urban ecology of New York City through drawing and participatory walks.

The project is fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and being developed in partnership with the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy. Exhibition dates and concurrent public events will be updated.

       


Funding for The Walk Project has been made possible in part by the Puffin Foundation, Barbara Deming Memorial Funds, and New York Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

       

Announcements

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Terra Narratives
Artist's Book Group Exhibition
June 11 - August 30, 2026
Laramie Country Library, Cheyenne, Wyoming


Adress: Earth – ArtistBooks in a Suitcase travels to:

Vassar College Art Library
Vassar College, Van Ingen Hall
124 Raymond Avenue - Poughkeepsie, New York
(between Taylor Hall and the Main Library, adjacent to the Main Gate)
June 25 – June 29, 2026 (Thursday–Monday), in conjunction with Upstate Art Weekend

Cotuit Center for the Arts
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
4404 Falmouth Rd. Cotuit, Massachusetts
July 15 - July 16, 2026

The Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library
479 Broadway, Monticello, New York
August 8, 2026

Galería Buenos Aires Sur
Buenos Aires, Argentina
February 2 - 26, 2027

John Young Museum of Art
Krauss Hall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2500 Dole Street Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
August 30 – December 10, 2026

PRESS

• Brochure essay of Amanda Douberley on Yoon Cho's solo exhibition, "Nothing Lasts Forever," at the Women and Their Work. For a hard copy, please contact Women and Their Work gallery.

• Yoon Cho's portfolio has been added to the Flat File at the PIEROGI gallery in Brooklyn, New York. The video project, How to Spell My Name, is also available at the PIEROGI.

THE WALK PROJECT
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Through the Eyes of Seven
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