Choe U-ram

Korean spelling
Hangeul	최 우람
Revised Romanization	Choe U-ram
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Uram
See also : Korean name

Choe U-ram (* 1970 ) is a South Korean artist. He lives and works in Seoul , South Korea.

Life

Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea. He studied at the Chun-Ang University in Seoul and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1999 . His first solo exhibition was called "Civilization Host" and opened in 1998 at the Boda Gallery in Seoul. The first international exhibition was called "New Active Sculpture" and began in 2006 at the Bitforms Gallery in New York. In the same year Choe received the Young Artist Today Award, Fine Arts Part and the POSCO Steel Art Award, Grand Prize. Another award for Choe in 2009 was the Kim Se-choong Sculpture Award, “Young Sculptor Part”.

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As a contemporary artist, Choe creates kinetic sculptures . His way of working includes the analysis of movement in nature. The construction of the sculpture aims to imitate nature's model. The sculptures correspond to programmed, mechanical creatures that move lifelike. In them, Choe combines physical laws with the principles of aesthetics. He gives them names that are borrowed from nature or the material used. As with a living creature, every object has a past. In doing so, Choe creates a cosmos of his own imagination. Against this background, the sculptures acquire a vitality and thus change the boundaries of existing bodies. They enable a new classification of the relationships between outside and inside, subject and environment as well as machine and organism.

Web links

• Choe U-ram website (Korean and English)
• Manami Okazaki: Choe U-ram. A mechanical evolution . In: The Japan Times of April 13, 2006 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bio on Choe U-ram's website . Retrieved June 6, 2013.
2. ^ Booklet of the Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul (PDF file; 1.9 MB). Retrieved June 6, 2013 (English and Turkish).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choe is the family name here, U-ram is the first name.