Chunghi Choo (born 1938) is a jewelry designer and metalsmith

Smith (metalwork)

A metalsmith, often shortened to smith, is a person involved in making metal objects. In contemporary use a metalsmith is a person who uses metal as a material, uses traditional metalsmithing techniques , whose work thematically relates to the practice or history of the practice, or who engages in...

 who was born in Incheon, Korea in 1938. She received a BFA degree from Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University is a private women's university in central Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the city's largest institutions of higher learning and currently the world's largest female educational institute. It is one of the best-known universities in South Korea, and often considered to...

 in Seoul, Korea, where she majored in Oriental painting. She moved to the United States in 1961 to study metalsmithing

Smith (metalwork)

A metalsmith, often shortened to smith, is a person involved in making metal objects. In contemporary use a metalsmith is a person who uses metal as a material, uses traditional metalsmithing techniques , whose work thematically relates to the practice or history of the practice, or who engages in...

, weaving, and ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art

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 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she received an MFA in 1965.

She has taught jewellery and metal arts at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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 School of Art and Art History since 1968 and is currently the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art.

Her works have been exhibited world wide and are found in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

London

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; Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

Paris

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; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; the Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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; the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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, Museum of Modern Art and American Craft Museum, New York

New York

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; Art Institute of Chicago; and other museums and public places. Her students are frequent winners of national and international competitions and awards.