Yewon Cho
Academie Minerva
Yewon Cho (b. 1998, South Korea) is a visual artist based in the Netherlands. She received her BFA from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen (2025).
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.
