Sunwoo Jung (1991) is a South Korean ceramic artist currently living and working in Amsterdam.

With a fascination for ceramics, and based on continued interest in everyday objects, she questions the functionality, efficiency, and clarity of the society. By reconfiguring found objects and combining them with ceramics, she wishes to purposefully deconstruct their functions and convert them into equivocal beings, or to create illusionary scenes in which the presence recalls absence, leading to the imagination.

She engages clay as a bridge between reality and imagination, bringing the sense of time into play. Through her ongoing practices, she ambitiously aims to unearth the value of opaque things that are vanishing in the domain of time and brings them up to the surface of today's rapid wave.

2018-2021


2010-2015

BFA, Ceramics, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)

BA, Media Interaction Design, Ewha Womans University (KR)

CUM LAUDE

2024

Take me there, here, Enseoul gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Enter Art fair, Copenhagen (DK), GROUP
Collectible 2024, Vanderborght Building, Brussels (BE)
Pioniers in Keramiek, Museum Prinsenhof Delft, Delft (NL)

Solo
Group

2023   

Deco Deco, Ilmin museum, Seoul (KR)
I was Blue, Now I am Yellow, Pokettales, Seoul (KR)
Things That Take Time, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Athena Clay Fair, 019 Ghent, Ghent (BE) 

Group            
Solo
Group 

2022    

Dutch Design Week 2022, Design Perron, Eindhoven (NL) 
OBJECT Rotterdam 2022, HAKA-gebouw, Rotterdam (NL) 
The Ministry of Ceramic Affairs, Gallery Vriend Van Bavink, Amsterdam (NL) 

Group          

2021       

Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Rietveld Uncut 2021—Resilient Body, Online Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Solo              
Group                                           

2019       

Clay Fiction, Totally Kiln It!, Veemvloer, Amsterdam (NL)
Rethinking Bauhaus, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Rietveld Uncut 2019—Take a Walk on the Wild Side, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Group          
                                            

2018

Ceramics Presentation Exhibition, Tungsten Studio, Broek in Waterland (NL)

Group

2014       

Graduation Show EMID 2014, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (KR)  

Group             

2021       

I Poked the Smoothness (NL)

Nominated, GRA thesis award 2021

2019

Unfurniture (NL)

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