Wook-kyung Choi (1940 - 1985) was a Korean Abstract Expressionist painter. She was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1940. She attended Seoul National University and then immigrated to the United States where she studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. In 1978 Choi returned to South Korea where she taught at Yeungnam University and Duksung Women's University. Choi died in 1985 at the age of 45 in Seoul.
In 1987 the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) held a retrospective. In 2005 the Kukje Gallery, Seoul held a retrospective of her work. In 2016 the Kukje Gallery held a solo exhibition of her work entitled American Years 1960s–70s. In 2021 the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art held a retrospective of her work entitled Wook-kyung Choi, Alice’s Cat.
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.