U-ram Choe

U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea.
Biography.
Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea. He is a contemporary artist who works with kinetic sculpture. His grandfather was a scientist who designed early automobiles, and his parents were sculptors. As a child he began exploring art with clay. He graduated from Chungang University in Seoul, where he earned B.F.A. in 1992 and M.F.A. in 1999.
Exhibitions.
November 2006 marked U-Ram Choe's United States debut, as he opened a solo exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York City. Since then he has exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; Shanghai Biennial; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo; NTT Intercommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Art Basel; Seoul Museum of Art; Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan; Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Beijing Expocenter; Seoul Olympic Art Museum; Asian Art Triennial; and Manchester Art Gallery.