Yewon Choi |
Academie Minerva
Yewon Cho (b. 1998, South Korea) is a visual artist based in the Netherlands. She graduated from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen in 2025 with a BFA in Fine Art and is enrolled in the MFA program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, beginning in 2026.
Her practice explores the quiet space between body and environment, using painting as a meditative process to register moments of disconnection and reconnection. Working with canvas, paper, and linen, Cho captures fleeting emotional states - what she refers to as “sparks” that emerge in stillness and introspection. Her surfaces are built through subtle layering and attention to texture, reflecting a desire to hold on to the intangible: a sensation, a shift in light, the rhythm of breath. Cho’s work navigates the in-between: between presence and absence, motion and stillness, thought and feeling. Each painting becomes a quiet record of inner movement, grounding the ephemeral through a language of materials and restraint.
Cho has exhibited in South Korea and the Netherlands, and is nominated for the Sluijters Prize in 2025.
