Kyoung Ae Cho is a fiber artist who is engages in conversation with nature, respectfully incorporating natural elements, recycled matter, and low-valued materials that she has gathered. Her work, a poetic juxtaposition of natural wonder with sensual delight and fragile existence, has been exhibited in national and international venues including Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI; Muskegon Museum of Art, MI; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI; Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Carnegie Art Museum of Oxnard, CA; Poikilo-museot, Kouvola, Finland; Textilemuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands; National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan; Cheongju Craft Museum, Cheongju, South Korea; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kwachon, South Korea. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Lillian Elliott Award, the Quilt National Award of Excellence, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a UWM Foundation and Graduate School Research Award, and a Wisconsin Arts Board Award Fellowship. Cho currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.