Academic History
2020.
Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL (University College London) | Ph.D. / Fine Art Research, London, U.K.
* Title: How Clay Can be Used as a Ritualistic Tool to Investigate Feelings of Cultural Displacement
2014.
Rhode Island School of Design| Master of Fine Art / Ceramics, Providence, RI, U.S.
* Title: Clay Structures and Psychological Space: A History
2011.
California College of the Arts| Bachelor of Fine Art / Ceramics, Oakland, CA, U.S.
* Title: Abstract Diary
Selected Residencies
- International Young Artists Residency Program, at Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea
- Peace Culture Bunker | Seoul, Korea
- sundaymorning@ekwc | Oisterwijk, Netherland
- Virtual 360 Konnect_ Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series (with Soe Yu Nwe) | Online
- 2019 Asia Creative Studio Media art Residency Program | Gwang-ju, Korea
- Fieldstation by S L A M – Ifö Center | Bromölla, Sweden.
- The North-Western Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts – State Museum And Exhibition Center Rosizo | St. Peterburg, Russia
- Slade Summer School Art Education Residency | London, U.K.
- ZK/U_ Center For Art And Urbanistics | Berlin, Germany
- Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center | Denmark
- Sculpture Sympositum 2016 | ForumArts | Kent, U.K.
- Art Center/ South Florida Studio Residency | Miami Beach, FL, U.S.
- The League Residency/ VYT | New York, NY, U.S.
- Masion des Artist Residency | Griffin Art Center/ New London, CT, U.S.
- Vermont Art Center| Sculpture | Vermont, VT, U.S.
- Rhode Island School of Design| Winter Session Ceramics Residency/ Providence, RI, U.S.
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts | 2013 Art Schools Collaborative (represent RISD)/Deer Isle, ME, U.S
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts | Doug Jeck’s “Clay: Forensic Portraiture” /Deer Isle, ME, U.S.
Exhibition
2019 Memories of a New Home | The North-Western Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) – State Museum And Exhibition Center Rosizo, St. Peterburg, Russia
2018 Exploration of Clay | Science Library, DMS Watson Building, London, U.K. (2017-2018)
2015 Habitats for Strangers | George Billis Gallery, New York City, NY, U.S.
2011 Abstract Diary | Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA, U.S.
Group
2024.
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2024 Jeonnam-Gyeongnam Young Artists Exchange Exhibition: 3pm | Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
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The Mussolini Podcast | Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2023.
- Close and Closer | Nuhadong 259, Seoul, Korea
- On the Edge | espacio Gallery, London, U.K.
- Earth and Body – Thinly Connected, Thickly Related | G&J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022.
- Sentimental Solidarity | Clayarch Gimhae Museum (Cubic House), Gimhae, Korea
- 2022 Sea & Museum | Lee Kang-Ha Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
- To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Affinities | ASEAN Culture House, Busan, Korea
- Earth and Body – Thinly Connected, Thickly Related | Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
- Ownness | Floating Project (Collective), Hong Kong
2020.
- The light of human | AsiaPlex Studio Baeklyun Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
- Woman, Woman, Woman, Woman : Four Contemporary Women Artists | Osan Museum of Art, Osan, Korea
- VOCALIS | Beconsfield gallery, Vauxhall, London, U.K
- A Dance of Scale: focusing on the small to make sense of the ungraspable | Assembly Point, London, U.K.
- Beyond Boundaries | KCCNY, Gallery Korea, New York City, NY, U.S.
- The Nomenclature of Colours(the part of the Colour & Poetry: A Symposium) | Slade Research Centre, London, U.K.
- Sharing Borders | Slade Research Centre, London, U.K.
- Performance: ‘Controlled Border’ during the Art Teleported Brooklyn NY 2019| Bogart, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- 2nd ForumArts international sculpture Symposium_Temporary Home 2016 | Riverhill, Kent, U.K. (2016-2019)
- PAF 2018 in Paris: Exposition des visages des 5 continents | Bastille Design Center, Paris, France.
- Bodies x Borders | Paul Webley Atruium, SOAS, London, U.K.
- Slade Degree Show 2018 | Slade School of Fine Art _ UCL, London, U.K.
- Butterfly Effect_ 2018 Voices of Korean Contemporary Artists | OXO Tower, London, U.K.
- Widening the Gaze conference | Slade Research Centre, London, U.K.
- Out in The Cold | Warwick University and Warwick arts Centre, U.K.
- 5years In Berlin Art Week | ZK/U_ Center For Art And Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany
- OPENHAUS | ZK/U_ Center For Art And Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany
- The Intercontinental | Roaming Room, London, U.K.
- MEMEMEME | Crypt Gallery, London, U.K.
- Casa Ocupada | Dona Laura’s House, Lisbon, Portugal
- Shanghai Art Fair 2016 | Shanghai, China
- 2016 Milano Korea Night | Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan, Italy
- 2016 Art Sensation (2016 Fukuoka) | Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan
- 2nd show_Korean Wunderkammer | IL Rivellino Leonardo da Vinci Art Gallery, Locarno, Switzerland
- Korean Wunderkammer | Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milano, Italy
- Perspectives of the Figurative | 5th Base Gallery, London, U.K.
- Future Relics_Four artists group show | Chelsea Waterside ArtSpace, London, U.K.
- [___ Blank] | CCAKAA 4th group show, Kyung-in Museum of Fine Art Ltd., Seoul, Korea.
- Oxford International Art Fair (solo booth) | Oxford Town Hall & Museum, Oxford, U.K.
- Help Hope Nepal Mural | Contemporary Art Projects USA, Spectrum Art Miami_ Basel Week, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.
- Loop, Landscape Encounters and Transformations _ Against Delivery_ European Artistic Research Network | Slade Research Centre, Woburn Sq. London, U.K.
- Landscape Encounters and Transformations_ Against Delivery_ European Artistic Research Network | Slade Research Centre, Woburn Sq. London, U.K
- Personal Space | The Green Gallery at T.F. Green Airport, Warwick, RI, U.S.
- 2015 New Members Show_ Cambridge Art Association | Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, CT, U.S.
- The 10th Annual Crossing the Bridge Juried Exhibition | Hygienic Art, New London, CT, U.S.
- The III. International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM2015 | at the National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Cultural Conversation_The 21st Juried Art Exhibition Contemporary Art | Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
- 2015 Member’s Exhibition | Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
- Five Senses | CCAKAA 3rd group show, Insa KCDF(Korea Craft & Design Foundation) Gallery , Seoul, Korea.
- Expo 34 | b.j.spoke gallery, NY, U.S.
- RISKY | 2015 NCECA listing show, Metcalf galleries, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Of Earth | 2015 NCECA listing show, Anchor Gallery, Providence, RI, U.S.
- The Art of a Community 2015 | Art Benicia, Benicia, CA, U.S.
- The New Paradigm | The Art Gallery at University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, U.S.
- Unbreakable_The CCA Ceramic Alumni of the New Millennium Exhibition | Art Benicia, Benicia, CA, U.S.
- Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Exhibition | The Clay studio, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.
- Playing with Colors: In Our Own Manners | CCAKAA 2nd group show, Gallery Sijac, Seoul, Korea
- 2014 Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition_ Rhode Island School of Design | Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Small Art Work Exhibition | The National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.
- Just Kiln Me | Ceramics Graduate Student Exhibition/ Sol Koffler gallery, Providence, RI, U.S.
- The Arizona Aqueous XVIII Exhibition | Tubac Center of the Art, Tubac, AZ, U.S.
- RISD Ceramics Triennial | Woods-Gerry gallery, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Arc of Alchemy | Sol Koffler gallery, Providence, RI, U.S.
- They Used to Work Here: Art by Haystack’s Summer Assistants | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, U.S.
- Playing with Toys–CCAKAA 1st group show | Gana art space, Seoul, Korea
- B.A.M | Proposals for Berkeley Art Museum Group Show and Exhibition, Berkeley, CA, U.S.
- Super Flat | Café at CCA, Oakland, CA, U.S.
- Ceramic Guild Show | Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA, U.S.
- CCACA Show | Davis, CA, U.S. (in 2010 & 2011)
- Death Mail | Post Office Gallery, Oakland, CA, U.S.
Work Experience
- Instructor_Ceramic Work | Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Instructor_Studio Practice: New Form | Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Instructor_Korean Art and Terracotta Sculpture | International Summer Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Instructor_Studio Practice: Carving | Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Instructor_3-D Fundamentals II | Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Visiting Lecturer_Studio VII | Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
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Presenter_The Contemporary Art Market | Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
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Visiting Lecturer_Studio VII | Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
- Instructor_3-D Fundamentals II | Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Artist talk_Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
- Workshops_Under the Fairy Tale, Peace Culture Bunker, Seoul, Korea
- Pannel_Defining the Next Decade, ResArtist Conference hosted by SAC Gallery, Bangkok
- Artist talk_ University of Hertfordshire | London, U.K.
- Artist Access to Art College (AA2A) : October, 2019 to April, 2020 , Hosted by School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire and supported by Arts Council England.
- Speaker_The Self as a Reference for Mixed Cultured Persons | Joint East Asia Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
- Committee member of Sharing Borders, funded by LAHP | London, U.K.
- Presenter_Clay with Cultural Displacement | Art Teleported Brooklyn NY 2019, Conference/ New York, U.S.
- Tutor_Drawing Methodologies | Slade School of Fine Art_UCL, London, U.K.
- Artist Talk_K-ART NOW: Monthly forum presented by 4482 | Han Collection, London, U.K.
- Artist Talk_Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Instructor_Life Underground organised by Compost Mentis with support from the Goldsmith Innovation Award | Phytology meadow, London, U.K.
- Instructor_Mundane Pagoda workshops | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Speaker_Clay as a Performative Tool | Performance Studies international (PSi) 24thDeagu Conference_ Performance as Network: Art, City, Culture., Deagu, South Korea.
- Tutor_Drawing Methodologies | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Speaker_Clay and Glazes_Lunch Time Lecture Series | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Speaker_Interactive Art | The First Conference of Korean PhD Students and Researchers in the U.K. (KRUK), London, U.K.
- Temporary Home 2016 for ForumArts artists of 2016 | The Royal British Society of Sculpture, London, U.K.
- Portfolio Interview Assistant | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Instructor_Surface workshop | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Instructor_Form workshop | Slade School of Fine Art_ UCL, London, U.K.
- Artist talk_Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark
- Speaker_ Symposium: Research Practice Practice Research, National Association for Fine Art Education, The University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Lancaster, U.K.
- Artist talk_Sculpture Sympositum 2016, Kent, U.K.
- Artist talk_Bodies and Marks Art Center | South Florida Studio, FL, U.S.
- Artist talk_The League Residency | VYT, New York, U.S.
- Artist talk_Vermont Art Center| Sculpture, Vermont, VT, U.S
- Visiting lecturer_Ceramic Sculpture by Soe Yu Nwe: Ritual_ Clay Structures and Psychological Space, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Presentation Artist_Porcelain / Working in Process, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, US.
- Instructor_Ceramics Form & Surface, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, US.
- Visiting Artist coordinator_Rhode Island School of Design Ceramics department, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Technical Assistant for Doug Jeck_Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Clay: Forensic Portraiture, Deer Isle, ME, U.S.
- Teacher Assistant for Hosseinali Saheb Ekhtiari, Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education, Ceramics: Tiles, Providence, RI, U.S.
- Technical Assistant for Corbin Rodriques_Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education, Claymania!,Providence, RI, U.S.
- Teacher Assistant for Katy Schimert and Eduardo Duarte_Rhode Island School of Design, Ceramics in Interior Architecture, Providence, RI
- Teacher Assistant_Claremont School, Art in the Public Interest, Oakland, CA, U.S.
Publication / Review
- Earthly Bodies : A Decade with Clay and Form, Slade Press, London, U.K.
- POST HUMAN NEW MEDIA ART 2020, CICA Museum, Korea/U.S. p.92-95
2018.
- Mundane Pagoda | London, U.K.
- Soft Violence | London, U.K.
- Widening The Gaze | Slade Press, London, U.K. p.51-54 &126
- ForumArts | London, U.K.
- Components in Clay | UCL, London, U.K.
- SAVEGE _Issue Four: Free Speech | Press in London, U.K., p14,15
- Bodies and Marks |UCL, London, U.K.
- Watch This Space, NPT Mercury Article by Alexander Castro
- RISD blog_ Far From Home/ article about T.F. Green Airport show and winter session residency
- UNICUM 2015, Ceramics Today, III. International Triennial of Ceramics UNICUM2015, Slovenia
- ISMOLOGY magazine / P.7.8
- Issue 005: Bones/ P.17, 18, 49, 50, 66 / East Coast Ink
- Selected artwork on the poster for Artaxis’ 9th anniversary/ artaxis.org
- Art Buzz / P. 108, 109_ 2014 collection, U.S.
- 2014 RISD Grad Book/ RGB
- Graduate student test the limits of ceramics at The Clay Studio / Knight Arts
- RISD Grad Exhibition Shows off a Range of Talents / Providence Journal
- RISD’s 2014 Annual Gradate Thesis Exhibition / Art & Education
- Korean Graduates from prestigious design school CCA group exhibition / AJU Business Daily
- The Tulane Review/ Gallery II |Art, P.48, 57, 58_ 2013 fall collection, U.S.
Awards
- Arts Council Korea funds
- Special Award, 25th Gwangju Art Award, Gwangju Korea.
- AA2A’s Artist Support Fund, U.K.
- Jean Spencer Memorial & Malcolm Hughes Research Bursary, Slade School of Fine Art, London, U.K.
- Recognized by HEA as an Associate Fellow, Teaching and Leaning in Higher Education, U.K.
- Julia Wood Prize, Slade School of Fine Art, London, U.K.
- Jean Spencer Memorial & Malcolm Hughes Research Bursary, Slade School of Fine Art, London, U.K.
- Half-grant for selected residency artist/ Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark
- Selected artist of 21st Juried Art Exhibition Contemporary Art_ Cash Award, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
- Ruth Katzman Scholarship/ The League Residency at VYT, Sparkill, NY,
- Artist/ Writer Grant/ Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, U.S.
- Artist for Green space gallery at T.F. Green Airport/ RISCA, RI, U.S.
- Artist member at Gallery 263/ Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
- Nominated from the Ceramics’ Department for the Toby Devan Lewis Award/ Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.
- 2nd Place, Art Buzz,3D Mixed Media, U.S.
- Ceramics Winter session Residency Award/ Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, U.S.
- Selected to represent RISD_2013 Art Schools Collaborative/ Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME, U.S.
- The Mary B. Bishop and Francis S. Merritt Scholarship/ Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, U.S
- RISD Fellowship Award/ Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.
- RISD Assistantship Award/ Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, U.S.
- Certificate of Honors Prize / California College of the Arts, CA, U.S.
- All College Honors Award (Charles Fiske Scholarship)/ California College of the Arts (Scholarship for Fall 2011), CA, U.S.
Permanent Collection
2021 Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2015 The National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmar