In 2004, he won the "Artist of the Year" award from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, for his significant contribution to the development of Korean contemporary ceramic art.
Yoon specializes in his own variants on the traditional Korean ceramic style called buncheong.
[3][4] He has modified this style, using angular shapes decorated with brushwork in white.
Yoon Kwang-cho was born in Hamhung, present-day North Korea.
He attended school in South Korea, graduating from Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 1973.