January Yoon Cho Art Studio

Interdisciplinary visual artist exploring relationships between individuals and their environments

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    • Ghost Tide to Living Waters: Installation
    • Orange City: Photo & Video Series
    • Nuclear Family: Photo Video Project
    • Cell: Video
    • Hair Project: Photo Video
    • Through the Eyes of Seven: Photo
    • Self-Portrait Series: Photo
    • Blurring Project: Photo Video
    • Some Aspects of Love: Video Installation
    • How to Spell My Name: Video
    • Persona: Video Series
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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).

       

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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Umbilical City Community Participatory Walk

Umbilical City combines community participatory walks with a series of drawings that capture resilient life forms focused on Long Island City. During the walks, participants walk together through Gantry Park while holding a single connecting string as a symbol of our shared link to nature. Each walk session opens with an artist talk by January Yoon Cho, followed by an urban ecology talk led by the project partner, Hunters Point Parks Conservancy.

• Walk 1: Animals and Food Chain of Gantry Park — Sunday, Nov 1, 2026 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Walk 2: Waters and Wetlands — Saturday, Nov 7, 2026 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Location: The Oval near Borden Ave. & Center Blvd., Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island City, New York
• Admission: Free and open to the public
Supported by a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) FY 2026 Support for Artists Grant.

Ghost Tide to Living Waters
Public Participatory Installation
Hunters Point Parks Conservancy
Date: TBA


Adress: Earth – ArtistBooks in a Suitcase travels to:

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

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

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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