Jang, Ho

Jang Ho was born in 1962 in Gimje, Northern Jeolla Province. He majored in Western painting at Hongik University and engaged in social activist art as a member of the Labor Art Committee of the Seoul National Artists Association. He began illustrating children’s books in 2005 with a desire to become an artist whose paintings gave dreams and hopes to children. The books he illustrated include The Butterfly Sleep, The Big Baby Boksooni, The Little Mother, Myunghye, The Great Grandmother and the Little Grandmother of Sorokdo, My Blue Bicycle, and Sunrise, among others. He was selected as Illustrator of the Year at Bologna Children’s Book Fair for his work Where is the moon? in 2009, and his work Puppy won him the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award in the category of illustrator at the Korea Children’s Book Fair. He was diagnosed with oral cancer in May of 2013 but continued painting until his death on June 23, 2013.