Whee

1984 Born in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul and Manila.

2026
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Charcoal, pastel and oil on canvas 60.6 × 50 cm 2026
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Charcoal, pastel and oil on canvas 130.3 × 162.2 cm 2026
Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 116.7 × 91 cm 2026
Summer 2025
Summer 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil color on canvas 162 × 130 cm 2026
Study of Silent Scream VII
Study of Silent Scream VII Pastel and oil crayon on canvas 50 × 43 cm 2026
Summer 2025
Summer 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 162 × 130 cm 2026
Summer 2025
Summer 2025 Pastel and oil paint on canvas 145 × 137 cm 2026
Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil on canvas 100 × 100 cm 2026
2025
Summer 2024 — II
Summer 2024 — II Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 184 × 152 cm 2025
Summer Landscape 2025
Summer Landscape 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 165 × 132 cm 2025
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Charcoal, soft pastel, oil stick and oil paint on canvas 167 × 132 cm 2025
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Pastel and oil paint on canvas 147 × 102 cm 2025
Manila Summer 2025
Manila Summer 2025 Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 97 × 92 cm 2025
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Oil, charcoal, oil crayon and oil paint on canvas 93 × 75 cm 2025
Summer Landscape 2025 — II
Summer Landscape 2025 — II Charcoal, pastel and oil paint on canvas 47 × 54 cm 2025
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Charcoal, soft pastel, and oil paint on canvas 164 × 134 cm 2025
Spring 2025
Spring 2025 Charcoal, soft pastel, and oil paint on canvas 164 × 134 cm 2025
Summer 2024
Summer 2024 Charcoal, soft pastel, and oil paint on canvas 75.4 × 93 cm 2025
Winter 2024
Winter 2024 Charcoal, soft pastel, and oil paint on canvas 45.5 × 53 cm 2025
Silent Scream VI
Silent Scream VI Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 193.04 × 156.8 cm 2025
Silent Scream IV
Silent Scream IV Charcoal, soft pastel, oil pastel, oil stick and oil paint on canvas 196 × 140 cm 2025
Silent Scream V
Silent Scream V Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 194 × 153.3 cm 2025
Untitled
Untitled Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 48.26 × 49.53 cm 2025
Untitled
Untitled Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 43.8 × 50.8 cm 2025
Untitled
Untitled Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 43.13 × 48.25 cm 2025
Silent Scream VII
Silent Scream VII Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 194 × 199 cm 2025
Silent Scream III
Silent Scream III Charcoal, soft pastel, oil pastel, oil stick and oil paint on canvas 176.5 × 140.3 cm 2025
Silent Scream
Silent Scream Oil, charcoal, oil crayon and oil paint on canvas 120 × 132 cm 2025
Silent Scream II
Silent Scream II Soft pastel, charcoal, oil pastel and oil paint on canvas 135.6 × 169.5 cm 2025
Untitled
Untitled Charcoal, soft pastel and oil paint on canvas 68 × 69 cm 2025
2024
Untitled
Untitled Oil on canvas 169 × 118 cm 2024
I Was Lost but Now I Am Found
I Was Lost but Now I Am Found Acrylic and oil on canvas 169 × 118 cm 2024
Garden of Birds of Paradise
Garden of Birds of Paradise Acrylic and oil on canvas 122 × 91.4 cm 2024
2023
Starry Night
Starry Night Oil and watercolor on canvas 122 × 122 cm 2023
Breathe In and Breathe Out
Breathe In and Breathe Out Oil and watercolor on canvas 102 × 80 cm 2023
All of Me Wants All of You
All of Me Wants All of You Oil and watercolor on canvas 182 × 142 cm 2023
Untitled
Untitled Oil, watercolor and acrylic on canvas 135 × 112 cm 2023
Untitled
Untitled Oil on canvas 164 × 135 cm 2023
A Study for Nature
A Study for Nature Watercolor and acrylic on paper 111 × 147 cm 2023
Frozen
Frozen Acrylic on canvas 163 × 130 cm 2023
2021
Juju Eyeballs
Juju Eyeballs Oil on canvas 145 × 112 cm 2021
Yummy
Yummy Acrylic on canvas 160 × 119 cm 2021
Wild Capture
Wild Capture Acrylic on canvas 163 × 259 cm 2021
2020
Nude Peach at Venice Beach
Nude Peach at Venice Beach Oil on canvas 163 × 262 cm 2020
A Mirror Reflection of a Woman’s Back
A Mirror Reflection of a Woman’s Back Oil on canvas 145 × 112 cm 2020
A Doll’s Dream
A Doll’s Dream Oil on canvas 91 × 121 cm 2020
2019
Garden of Edan
Garden of Edan Oil on canvas 260 × 163 cm 2019
Magic Castle
Magic Castle Oil on canvas 260 × 163 cm 2019
2018
Untitled
Untitled Oil on canvas 129 × 161 cm 2018
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-1
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-1 Oil on canvas 160 × 180 cm 2018
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-2
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-2 Oil on canvas 91 × 73 cm 2018
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-3
Earth Painting - How We Forget to Appreciate 1-3 Oil on canvas 91 × 73 cm 2018
Artist Note
Woni Cha in the studio

I see nature not as a landscape, but as a living entity where emotions accumulate and erupt.

My work explores how suppressed emotions twist internally and eventually expand into organic forms.

The invisible pressures and tensions I experience as a woman are translated into layers of color, movement, density, and fracture on the canvas.

Through uncontrolled gestures and accumulated surfaces, I portray emotions not as something that disappears, but as something that transforms and persists.

My paintings are not representations of nature, but manifestations of an inner landscape—
a self-generated ecology of emotion.

나는 자연을 단순한 풍경이 아니라, 감정이 축적되고 분출되는 하나의 생명체로 바라본다.

나의 작업은 억압된 감정이 내부에서 어떻게 뒤틀리고, 결국 자연의 형태로 번져나가는지를 탐구한다.

특히 여성으로서 경험하는 보이지 않는 압력과 사회적 구조 속의 긴장은
화면 위에서 색과 움직임, 밀도와 균열로 나타난다.

나는 통제되지 않는 붓질과 겹겹이 쌓이는 색을 통해
감정이 사라지는 것이 아니라, 다른 형태로 변형되어 살아남는 과정을 그린다.

나의 회화는 풍경이 아니라,
감정이 스스로 증식하며 만들어낸 하나의 “내면의 자연”이다.

Curriculum
Vitae

Education

  • 2012
    • MFA, Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2007
    • BFA, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

Solo Exhibitions · Awarded Exhibitions

  • 2027 (Forthcoming)
    • Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea (September 2027)
  • 2026
    • Whispers of Summer Forests, The Columns Gallery, Gilman Barracks, Singapore
  • 2025
    • Silent Scream, Pintô Art Museum and Arboretum, Antipolo, Philippines
  • 2023
    • Supreme Yard, Leon Gallery, Manila, Philippines
  • 2013
    • Idolic Bonanza, Competition Awards Solo Exhibition, Kunst Dog, Seoul, Korea
  • 2011
    • Spring up! Mentoring Project 2011, Two Person Exhibition - Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture Sponsored Project, Space Can, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions

  • 2024
    • Wild: Women Abstractionists on Nature, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
  • 2023
    • Gallery Benefit 2023, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
  • 2022
    • Art Detour II, Leon Gallery, Manila, Philippines
  • 2021
    • From Vivid Color to Image, Manila House, Manila, Philippines
    • Art Detour, Leon Gallery, Manila, Philippines
  • 2020
    • Women and Time, Assumption College, Manila, Philippines
  • 2018
    • Heritage-Trace: RISD exhibition, L'espass 71 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2017
    • 1968 Contemporary Space 2017, Contemporary Space Association 50 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Kim Jong-young Museum, Seoul, Korea
    • RED: RISD Exhibition, Sophis Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2015
    • Prelude for Twenty Differences, Art Space Flask, Seoul, Korea
  • 2012
    • Exhibition for Outstanding Graduate Students, Seoul National University Museum of Art MOA, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea

Art Fairs

  • 2026 (Forthcoming)
    • Asia Now Paris, The Columns Gallery, Paris, France
    • Kiaf SEOUL, The Columns Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2026
    • Art Busan, The Columns Gallery, Busan, Korea
    • Galleries Art Fair, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    • Galleries Art Fair, The Columns Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    • ART SG, The Columns Gallery, Singapore
  • 2025
    • Asia Now Paris, The Columns Gallery, Paris, France
    • Kiaf SEOUL, The Columns Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    • Kiaf SEOUL, Laheen Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    • Tokyo Gendai, The Columns Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
    • Art Fair Philippines, The Columns Gallery, Manila, Philippines
  • 2024
    • Art Fair Philippines, Kobayashi Gallery, Manila, Philippines