Since the late 1970’s, Younghee Choi Martin has lived and worked in Chelsea, where she was one of the earliest artists to establish a painting studio. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has been awarded painting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NY CAPS program. Her works have been exhibited in New York and throughout the United States, Korea, Japan, France, and Italy. Over 80 of her paintings and drawings are in collections and museums in the United States, Korea, Japan, and India.
Education
1977 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, BFA in Painting
1976 Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
1975 Provincetown Artists’ Colony Summer Session, Provincetown, MA
1973 Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY, Painting, Drawing, and Clay Modeling
1973 Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, NY
One Person Exhibitions
2023 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, “Recent Paintings”
2015 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, “Large Paintings”
2013 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, “Myth of Orpheus”
2004 Nabi Gallery, New York, NY, “Into Something Rich and Strange”
2002 Maurice Arlos Fine Art, New York, NY, “The Waste Land Paintings”
Horikawa Gallery, Kobe, Japan, “Paintings and Drawings”
2001 Evan Burger Donaldson Gallery, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT
2000 Gilbert Gallery, Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT, “Staring Forms”
1999 Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, “Painting and Drawing”
1998 Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, “Recent Paintings”
Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI, “A Hundred Visions and Revisions”
1997 Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, NM, “A Hundred Visions and Revisions”
1995 Jeong Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea, “Multi-figure Compositions”
Jeong Song Gallery, Seoul Arts Fair ’95, Seoul, Korea
1994 Jeong Song Gallery, Seoul Arts Fair ’94, Seoul, Korea
Barnard-Biderman Fine Art, New York, NY, “The Waste Land”
Space Gam Mee Ok, New York, NY, “From Paris to Morocco”
1992 Barnard-Biderman Fine Art, New York, NY, “Compositions and Studies”
1986 Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, “Recent paintings”
Dupont Gallery, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
1983 Andrew Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, “Salome”
Group Exhibitions
2019 Art at Kings Oaks, Newtown PA
2018 Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, “East Meets Midwest II”
2017 William & Mary, Wiiamsburg, VA, New York, NY, “New Visions of Figurative Painting”
2017 Westbath, New York, NY, “On the Shoulders of Giants”
2010 Nabi Gallery, New York, NY, “Miniatures”
2008 Lohin/Geduld Gallery, New York, NY, “Five in the Field”
2007 Nabi Gallery, New York, NY, “From the Dreaming World”
Westbath Gallery, New York, NY, “Contemporary Figure Survey”
2006 Marywood University, Scranton, PA, “Four Figure Painters from New York City”
2005 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY, “Bamidbivar”
2004 National Academy Museum, New York, NY, “179th Annual Exhibition”
2002 Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan, “Areum”
Maurice Arlos Fine Art, New York, NY, “Summer Exhibition 2002”
The Affordable Art Fair, Maurice Arlos Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, “Mysterious”
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, “Distinct Visions”
2000 Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, France, “Voila! Le Monde Dans La Tete”
Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, “Traveling Artists”
Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, “The Heart of Light”
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York, NY, “Seasons”
1999 Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, “From Hyacinth Garden”
Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan, “Areum”
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1998 National Academy Museum, New York, NY, “173rd Annual Exhibition”
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, “Works on Paper”
Drew University, Madison, NJ
1997 The Painting Center, New York, NY, “Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie”
Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York, NY, “Vision and Verse”
PSA Art Showcase IX, New York, NY, “As Subjective as Possible”
1996 Microsoft Corporate Campus, Redmond, WA, “Print Exhibition”
Smith College, Northampton, MA, “Invitational Drawing Exhibition”
1995 PSA Art Showcase V, New York, NY
1995 The Painting Center, New York, NY
Boston Symphony Hall, curated by Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, “4th National Painting Competition”
New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, “Violent Nature”
Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
PSA Art Showcase III, New York, NY, “Subjective Projections”
Han Ga Ram Museum in Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1993 PSA Art Showcase, New York, NY, “Inaugural Exhibition: Chronicling Time”
RISD and Friends at Sotheby’s, New York, NY, Live Auction
Art Chicago 1993, Chicago, IL, “The Benjamin Portfolio Artists”
Miami WIZO Art ’93, Miami, FL, “Barnard-Biderman Gallery Artists”
1991 Cie Moderne & Contemporaine, Paris, France, “Sensibilites Contemporaines”
1988 Ten Worlds Gallery, New York, NY, “Poisson d’Avril”
1987 Tradition 3 Thousand, New York, NY, “Four Artists”
1985 Alexandre Hogue Gallery, The University of Tulsa, OK, “Operatic Themes”
1982 Green Space, New York, NY, “Figures”
1981 Munson-Proctor Art Center, Utica, NY, “CAPS Award Winners”
Bard College, Annandale, NY, “CAPS Award Winners”
Silvermine Guild Gallery, New Canaan, CT, “Drawings into Prints”
Awards
1983 NEA, Painting Fellowship
1982 International Sculpture Concord, Quebec, Canada
1981 CAPS of New York, Painting Fellowship
Residencies, Lectures, and Visiting Artist
2007 Art Students League, Vytlacil Campus
2001 Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT
2000 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2000 Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1999 Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, “Overview: On My Paintings and Drawings”
Women Artists of Kyoto, Kyoto International Community House
1998 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA, “Work in Progress”
1996 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA, “Work in Progress”
1994 PSA, New York, NY, “On Travel Sketches”
1987 SUNY, Center for Music, Arts and Theater, Plattsburgh, NY
1986 Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
1985 The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, “My References and Processes”
Collections
2002 The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2001 The Bond Market Association, New York, NY
1999 Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1998 William & Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection, Bryn Mawr College, PA
1996 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
1995 Jeong Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 Korea International Merchant Bank, Seoul, Korea
1992 The Carpenter Group, New York, NY
Private collections
Los Angeles, Altadena, Oakland, San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Springfield, Lenox, MA;
Minneapolis, MN; Morristown, NJ; New York City and throughout New York State;
Providence, RI; Chennai, India; Rome, Italy; Kyoto and Osaka, Japan; Seoul, Korea
Other Art consultant for the permanent collection at The Bond Market Association, 2001
Co-curator, the Art Showcase at The Bond Market Association, 1993 to 2000
CAA Artist of Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, 1996, 1997
RISD Honorary Degree Committee member, 1997, 1998
Art Director, Graphic Designer at H&G and Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Publication 1980-1990
Other
Art consultant for the permanent collection at The Bond Market Association, 2001
Co-curator, the Art Showcase at The Bond Market Association, 1993 to 2000
CAA Artist of Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, 1996, 1997
RISD Honorary Degree Committee member, 1997, 1998
Art Director, Graphic Designer at H&G and Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Publication 1980-1990
Current and Past Gallery Affiliations
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY and New York, NY
Maurice Arlos, New York, NY
Barnard-Biderman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Jeong Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Horikawa, Kobe, Japan
