Nina Cho

Nina Cho is an artist and designer based in Detroit. Born in San Francisco and raised in Seoul, South Korea, she attended Hong-Ik University studying Woodworking and Furniture design and then moved to Michigan to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2015 Nina was recognized as an Honoree of Sight Unseen’s American Design Hot List, and in 2019 she was recognized as one of 13 Extraordinary Women in Design and Architecture by Dwell Magazine. Nina is influenced by the artistic ethic of her Korean heritage. This has led her to pursue a reductive aesthetic, wherein she merges Eastern philosophy and experimental form languages.