Mokwon University Honorary Professor Jo Pyeong-hwi Receives Lee Dong-hoon Art Award Main Prize

Professor Emeritus Jo Pyeong-hwi. Courtesy of Mokwon University

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Mokwon University announced on the 30th that Honorary Professor Jo Pyeong-hwi (89, photo) was selected as the grand prize winner of the 19th Lee Dong-hoon Art Award.

Professor Jo was recognized for his dedication to artistic activities and nurturing future artists as an educator, having settled in Daejeon after joining Mokwon University as a professor in 1976 and playing a central role in the Chungcheong region's art scene, receiving the grand prize.

In his artistic work, Professor Jo has long enjoyed painting clouds and mountains, reflecting his pen name, Unsan (雲山).

Especially around the 1970s, he began various creative experiments and in-depth studies of traditional ink landscape paintings, completing numerous realistic landscape series featuring nearby mountains such as Daedunsan and Gyeryongsan near Daejeon. Professor Jo's works are currently held in many collections, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Daejeon Museum of Art.

Meanwhile, the Lee Dong-hoon Art Award was established to honor the late painter Lee Dong-hoon, who laid the foundation for the development of art in the Daejeon and Chungcheong areas. The award selects and honors grand prize and special prize artists. Among these, the grand prize is awarded to veteran artists who have contributed to the advancement of Korean art.

This year's award ceremony is scheduled to be held in October, and the winning artists' invitational exhibition will take place next year at the Daejeon Museum of Art.

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