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.
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.
Education
2018-2021
2010-2015
2010-2015
BFA Ceramics, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)
BA, Media Interaction Design, Ewha Womans University (KR)
BA, Media Interaction Design, Ewha Womans University (KR)
CUM LAUDE
Presentation
2022
Duth 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)
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)
Rietveld Uncut 2021—Resilient Body, Online Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
SOLO
Group
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)
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
Self Publication
2021
I Poked the Smoothness (NL)
Nominated, GRA thesis award 2021
2019
Unfurniture (NL)