Yoon Hei Cho

Yoon Hei Cho is an animator, filmmaker and illustrator. She earned a BA in Marketing from Michigan State University and worked in marketing and business roles in Seoul before returning to art at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where she completed a BFA in Fine Arts and, as a Lillian Disney Scholarship recipient, an MFA in Experimental Animation in 2022. Working mainly in 2D frame-by-frame animation, she makes memoir-driven films that visualize emotional states, such as anxiety, through human body movement and chaotic atmosphere.