Korean born, New York based artist Sook Jin Jo 조 숙 진 is a multidisciplinary artist. For the last 40 years, Sook Jin Jo has produced drawings, collages, photographs, sculptural assemblages, performances, installations, public works, and architectural design works. Originally because canvas was too expensive for her as a young artist, she started to use plywood and began to explore found wooden materials. Continuing her work with this medium, she has discovered infinite possibilities for painting, sculpture, installation and beyond. She often chose marginalized sites for her outdoor installations and public artworks. Most of them are site-specific and collaborative, working with professionals and local peoples from diverse communities in many countries, including Sweden, India, Poland, Switzerland, Korea, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Brazil and the United States.

In 1985, Jo had her first solo exhibition with wooden panels in Korea. It was made up of assemblage works with new and old plywood, as well as some painted panels. She received a very positive response and was invited to have major exhibitions, including “Ecole de Seoul”, "Concept of Matter-New Generation" and "31 Women Artists in Korea," which took place in 1986 respectively.

Jo moved to New York City in 1988 and had her first New York solo exhibition at the O.K. Harris Works of Art in 1990. That same year, she appeared in Art Today, a documentary video featuring such artists as Jenny Holzer, Ilya Kavakov, Cy Twombly, Jennifer Bartlett and Cindy Sherman. Jo has exhibited internationally and has been the subject of 40 solo exhibitions including "SeMA GOLD 2014: Nobody", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; the Walter Gropius Master Artist Series, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia in 2011; a project collaboration with Immigrants from Latin America, Tenement Museum, New York, NY in 2009; " Mid-Career Survey of the Work of Sook Jin Jo" at the Arko Art Center, Seoul in 2007; and over 100 group exhibitions, including the "Seoul Photo Festival 2017", Seoul, Korea; the “Lodz Biennale”, Lodz, Poland; the “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, Korea; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea;.

Jo's work is featured in the following publications; Art Parks published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2013; The Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Painting and Sculpture published by the Margulies Foundation in 2008; A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 published by ISC Press/ University of Washington Press in 2006; Review of and articles on her work have been published in many newspapers, magazines, and books, including Art in America, Art News, Sculpture, and the New York Times.

Sook Jin Jo is a recipient of many distinguished awards, fellowships, grants and commissions, including a Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2019; a commission from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the iaab Fellowship (Christoph Merian Stifung Foundation) in Basel, Switzerland; National Artist Award", Hachonghyun Foundation in Seoul, Korea; the Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Award in Santa Monica, CA; a Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Grant in New York, NY; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York, NY; and the Sacatar Foundation Residency Fellowship in Itaparica, Brazil; and a Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship in New York, NY.

Jo’s works can be seen in numerous public collections, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea; the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea; the Erie Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia; the Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut; the Arko Art Center in Seoul, Korea; the LA Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles; and the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami. She also designed and built three Art House Chapels; one in Tipitapa, Nicaragua (2018), the second one in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala (2022), and the third chapel in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador (2023).

Active as a lecturer or panelist at many universities and art organizations, Jo has spoken at venues such as the Americans for the Arts annual convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the Maier Museum of Art in Virginia; the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia; The New School/ Parsons School of Design in New York; the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York; and I-Park’s 2019 Inter-disciplinary Curatorial Panel, i-Park Foundation in East Haddam, Connecticut. Jo has received two MFA’s: one from Hong-Ik University, Korea, and one from Pratt Institute, New York.