Jione Choi

RWS GUEST MEMBER FROM 2024 - 2026

Jione Choi was born in South Korea and lives and works in London.  Her works express the intangible and ethereal character of memory, which acts as a mechanism to view the world. While the narratives are related to human emotions and intimate relationships, the artist chooses to create poetic works with multiple interpretation possibilities. These days, she especially focuses on painting works depicting people and their minds in exhibition spaces. To be specific, she is observing closely the viewer’s emotional reaction when they are appreciating the artworks. It’s almost like a two-way communication between the viewers and the artworks, whereby the works seem to come to life.

Jione Choi received an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Recently, she has won the RWS Young Artist Award 24 and RWS Publicity Prize 23 awarded by the Royal Watercolour Society. In addition, two of her works have been included in ‘Drawing Biennial 24’ organised by Drawing Room. She also won the First prize of Art Gemini Prize 9th edition. In 2022 one of her works was included in Standard Chartered Bank’s art collection and Jione won the Signature Art Prize 2022 in Drawing & Printmaking Category.