Education
2010 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design. Jewelry and Metalsmithing. USA
2007 B.F.A Sookmyung Women’s University. Art and Craft. Korea
Lectures , Workshop & Residency
2015 SOFA Chicago SNAG Emerging Artist Lecture
2015 Project with Korean Intangible Cultural Assets for product development, Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation
2014 Juror, Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award
2013 Sookmyung Women’s University ‘How hard is a Triple Role? : 작가, 크리에이티브 디렉터, 그리고 엄마’, Seoul, Korea
2013 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ‘ Jewelry as a Gift’, Seoul, Korea
2012 Seoul Art Space 3rd Artist Residency. Seoul. Korea
2010 Salzburg International Summer Academy. Salzburg. Austria
Solo Show
2021 The Moment, Hakgojae Artcenter, Seoul, Korea
2015 Delineation of Memories, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2021 Artistry – RE – Imagined: Spotlight on the East, NYC Fringe, USA
2021 Providence, Siat Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 Blue • An Uncertain Spring, Gallery BAUM & Camerata Artspace, Paju, Korea
2020 Brooches by 50 Artists, Art Space Sueno339, Seoul, Korea
2019 Contemplastic 3, Gallery BING, Seoul, Korea
2019 Sarangbang, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, Canada
2019 Living Design Art Fair, represented by Lexus Korea, Seoul, Korea
2019 Frame represented by KCDF, International Handwerksmesse 2019, Munich, Germany
2018 SAGABOWOL, Leeugean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Triple Parade 2018, HOW Design Center, Shanghai, China
2018 Art Mining Seoul, DDP Seoul, Korea
2018 Jewelry Breeze, 515 Gallery, Kwangju, Korea
2018 The Power of [Extra] Ordinary, KCDF Gallery, Seoul. Korea
2018 경쾌하며상쾌한, LKATE Gallery & Ahwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 Unhook and Connect, Sanulim Craft, Seoul, Korea
2018 It’s a Pleasure to Meet You!, Gallery BAUM, Paju, Korea
2017 Contemplastic 2, Gallery DAM, Seoul, Korea
2016 Punchbowl Project Gateway Drugs ,Velvet Da Vinci, San Franscisco, USA
2016 品: Power of Gentleness , Sookmyung Women’s University Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 SOFA Chicago represented by Charon Kransen Arts, Navy Pier , Chicago, USA
2015 Korea Now! – Craft, Fashion and Graphic Design in Korea, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
2015 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2015 Transformed – Fakelike, Gallery VOGOZE, Seoul, Korea
2015 Contemplastic. Gallery BAUM. Paju. Korea
2014 Korea Craft Trend Fair. Organized by KCDF. Seoul. Korea
2014 Joya Barcelona. represented by Art of Legnica. Barcelona. Spain
2014 On the Horizon. Brooklyn Metal Works. Brooklyn. NY. USA
2014 Jewelry and Photography. MAD museum. NYC. NY. USA
2014 Transformed. gallery VOGOZE. Seoul, Korea
2014 Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER-CLASSIC, Legnica, Poland
2014 Asia Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong, Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong
2013 Eco Therapy, Gallery IS, Seoul, Korea
2013 100s of Cross, the Bridge Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 SOFA Chicago, presented by Charon Krenson Arts and KCDF
2013 Fondazione Cominelli 2013, Italy
2013 Ornament and Illusion – Spectrum of Contemporary Jewelry, Korean National Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2013 Paper Jewelry, the Bridge Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Earrings Calore 2013, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2013 Craft Dream 2013 Living Space and Metalwork, Chiwoo Craft Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 New Caledonia Art Fair. Le Méridien Nouméa. New Caledonia
2012 10 Next Generation artists of Sookmyung. Gallery Kyo. Tokyo. Japan
2012 Asia Top Galleries Hotel Art Fair. Presented by Kaze Gallery Japan. Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong. Hong Kong
2011 Christmas Tree. Hyundai Department Store. Seoul. Korea
2011 Fiber Art Fair. Hangaram Gallery. Seoul Art Center. Seoul. Korea
2011 RISD KOREA Alumni Show. Gallery Won. Seoul. Korea
2011 SOFA Chicago. Chicago and NYC. USA
2011 In Line/In Metal: Group Exhibition. Aaron Faber Gallery. NYC. NY. USA
2011 Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair. Grand Hyatt Seoul. Seoul. Korea
2011 Art Osaka. Osaka. Tokyo
2011 Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER. Gallery of Art. Legnica. Poland
2011 Young Art Taipei. Sunworld Dynasty Hotel. Taipei. Taiwan
2011 House Art Fair. Baikhyeyoung Gallery. Seoul. Korea
2011 Geography. Society of North American Goldsmith. Seattle. WA. USA
2011 Inhorgenta Fair 2011. Munich. Germany
2010 To Write This Work: The RISD Master’s Thesis. Sol Koffler Gallery. Providence. RI. USA
2010 Jewellery and Other Stories. Alte Saline. Hallein. Austria
2010 International Graduation Show 2010. Galerie Marzee. Nijmegen. The Netherlands
2010 Graduate Thesis Show. RI Convention Center. Providence. RI. USA
2010 Preziosa Young 2010 Contemporary Jewellery. Leopoldine old Cloister, Torquato Tasso Square. Florence. Italy
2010 Black Sheep Projects. 65 Eddy Street. Providence. RI. USA
2010 Going to Extremes/ Exhibition in Motion. SNAG and Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Houston. TX. USA
2009 Ring My Belle. Kris Graves Projects. 111 Front Street. Gallery 224. Brooklyn. NY. USA
2009 Everything is Fine/the Market is Fine. 235 Westminster. Providence. RI. USA
2009 RISD Jewelry + Metalsmithing Triennial 2009. Woods-Gerry Gallery. Providence. RI. USA
2008 Wear We Are Graduate Jewelry Biennial. Sol Koffler Gallery. Providence. RI. USA
2008 Fun + Design Exhibition. BMH Gallery. Seoul. Korea
2008 Graduate Metal X1. Light Square Gallery. TafeSa. Adelaide Centre for the Arts. Australia
2007 We Need More. Art Square sponsored by KT & G (Korean Tobacco Cop.). Seoul. Korea
2006 Show of Prized Work. Korean Ceramic Arts Association. Incheon. Korea
2006 The Graduate Exhibition of Dep. of Arts and Crafts BFA. Chungpa Gallery at Sookmyung University. Seoul. Korea
Permanent Collection
2014 The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
2013 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Publication
METALSMITH Vol 35_ No 1. “Seoul, Korea: Growing Strong” Written by Jeon, Yong-Il, Professor of Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea(pp.20.21.22)
500 Art Necklaces
Marthe Le Van. 500 Silver Jewelry Designs: The Powerful Allure of a Precious Metal. New York: Lark Crafts, 2011(pp. 104, 274, 327)
Surface Magazine: Thesis Report. Dec 2010(pp. 7, 60)
RISD XYZ
Awards
2018 Winner, Lexus Creative Masters Award 2018, Korea
2015 Honorable Mention, Chungjoo International Craft Award
2013 Winner of Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award
2010 Winner of Daisy Soros Prize for Fine Arts 2010 by American Austrian Foundation
2010 Finalist of Preziosa Young Contemporary Jewellery Award
2006 The 3rd Modern Ceramic Arts Award of Korea
2004 The 40th Industrial Arts Award of Korea
Present
Artist
Jewelry Designer
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