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| Revised Romanization | Yun Gwang-jo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yun Kwangjo |
Yoon Kwang-cho (Korean: 윤광조; born January 30, 1946) is a South Korean ceramic artist.[1][2]
His works have been shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and are part of the regular collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Royal Museum of Mariemont and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
In 2004, he won the "Artist of the Year" award from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, for his significant contribution to the development of Korean contemporary ceramic art. In 2008, he was given the Kyung-Ahm Prize. His studio is in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Yoon specializes in his own variants on the traditional Korean ceramic style called buncheong.[3][4] He has modified this style, using angular shapes decorated with brushwork in white. He often represents aspects of Kyongju in his work.
Yoon Kwang-cho was born in Hamhung, present-day North Korea. He attended school in South Korea, graduating from Hong-Ik UniversityinSeoul in 1973. He then studied at the Karatsu KilninJapan (an age-old center for Korean ceramics), becoming inspired to work in the traditional Korean pottery known as buncheong.
Inspired by the buncheong tradition of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Yoon's recent works tend toward the sculptural and exploit the dynamic, tactile potential of clay, glaze, and white slip
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