Chunghi Choo

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'Container', silver-plated copper and plexiglas sculpture by Chunghi Choo, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Container', silver-plated copper and plexiglas sculpture by Chunghi Choo, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Tea Service', silver sculpture by Chunghi Choo, 1987, Figge Art Museum
'Tea Service', silver sculpture by Chunghi Choo, 1987, Figge Art Museum

Chunghi Choo is a jewelry designer and metalsmith who was born in Inchon, Korea in 1938. She received a BFA degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, where she majored in Oriental painting. She moved to the United States in 1961 to study metalsmithing, weaving, and ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she received an MFA in 1965. She has taught jewelry and metal arts at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History since 1968 and is currently the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art.


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  • Georgia Museum of Art, American Masters of Hollowware in the Late 20th Century, Athens, Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, 1997.