"Ms. Y.J. Cho holds an unusual curiosity in bricks and stones, and the lines, cracks, stains and other flaws that appear in walls through the passage of time. Others may consider such objects as ordinary, and undeserving of any attention, and yet, Ms. Cho is able to sense within those objects an infinite number of untold tales. She is then able to create from her observations, stroke by stroke, a magnificently quilted work of art."

by Prof. Wan Qingli(Director of Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU)

Biography
Cho Yeou Jui (Y.J.CHO) received her BFA from National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. She is the first using slide projector in painting. Her “Banana Series” astonished the conservative society in 1970s. Later studied in USA and received her MA from State University of New York at Albany. Since 1977, Ms. Cho lived in the Soho, New York City as a professional artist, and showed at OK Harris gallery from 1986 until now. She has held 17 major solo-art exhibitions and 70 more group shows at U.S. and Asia. She taught at National Changhuan Normal University in 1995 and Taitung Teachers College in 2000 and now is teaching in the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU as Artist-in-Residence. In 2005, she received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her works are included in collections in Hong Kong, Taiwan, U.S. and elsewhere.

Awards
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

2000
National Endowment for Culture and Art, Visiting Artist at Taitung Teachers College, Taiwan

1996
Hui Yeung Shing Art Exchange Planning, Visiting Artist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1995
National Endowment for Culture and Art; Visiting Artist at National Changhua University,　Taiwan

1973
Provincial Art Exhibition, Provincial Museum of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan; First Prize: Oil Painting

Selected Collections
Kao Hsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kao Hsing, Taiwan
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
The City College of New York, Townsend Harris
Hall, Shepard Hall and Steinman Hall
Caravan Products Inc., Totowa, NJ
Arbor Drugs, Troy, MI
Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, FL
Max Palevsky, Los Angeles, CA
Van Dresser Corporation, Troy, MI
Union County College, Cranford, NJ