Artist Statement / Bibliography
Artist Statement
Through sculptural and installation works that combine glass, ceramics, light, sound, vibration, and electronic devices, I explore the impulse to control that humans reveal in the face of the uncertain. Kiln-formed glass, hand-built ceramics, and electronic elements such as exciters, speakers, and LEDs are brought together within a single material structure, where they act upon one another to produce a sensory experience. By joining traditional craft materials with electronic media, I expand the function of these materials while turning invisible relationships and sensations into something material.
At the center of my work is the act of confronting. To confront something - however small - demands energy from us, and in that moment, a new relationship begins to form with it. I am drawn to how, in the presence of things that resist being fully understood - silence, which appears empty yet holds the potential of something unknown; darkness, which, in erasing information, amplifies imagination instead; or forms that resemble living things yet can never be entirely read - humans reveal an impulse to understand and impose order. Even before what cannot be controlled, we keep reaching for form and clarity, and it is this very resistance that gives rise to a relationship with the object.
Each piece is positioned to confront other pieces, or to confront the viewer. Glass and ceramic become resonant bodies that transmit and reflect light while vibrating in their own distinct ways; subtle shifts in light and sound, together with forms that appear both organic and mechanical at once, keep the work from settling into a fixed object. The work refuses to be fully interpreted by the viewer, while still reaching toward them sensorially. Standing before something that cannot be fully grasped, viewers come to naturally confront their own impulse to understand and order it.
Through these encounters - between the work and the viewer, and between the viewer and themselves, between the different ways each of us confronts what cannot be controlled - I aim to create moments in which new relationships take shape.
Bio
Seyeon Park (b. 2001, Seoul, South Korea) is a craft artist working across the boundaries of ceramics and glass. She received her BFA in Ceramics & Glass from Hongik University in February 2025 and is currently pursuing an MFA in CRAFT! – Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Selected exhibitions include Buljong at Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm (2026); Vibrant Matter, the Ceramics & Glass Graduation Exhibition at Hongik Museum of Modern Art, Gallery 1, Seoul (2024); and Vegetation Point, a group exhibition at Gallery 57th, Seoul (2024).
CV
Education
2020-2025
BFA in Ceramics and Glass, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2025-Present
MFA in CRAFT!-Ceramics and Glass, Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
Solo Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions
2026 CRAFT! MA1 Group Exhibition “Buljong”, Konstfack Gallery + Pölen, Stockholm, Sweden
2024 Ceramic and Glass Department Graduation Exhibition “Vibrant Matter”, Hongik Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
2024 University Student Joined Group Exhibition “Meristem”, 57th gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023 University Student Joined Group Exhibition “Concentrate“, gallery Yeonnamjang, Seoul, Korea
2022 Craft and Design Education Result Exhibition for University Students, organized by the Ministry of Culture, KCDF gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 Ceramic and Glass Department Undergraduate exhibition “Pigment”, Hongik Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 Ceramic and Glass Department Undergraduate exhibition “Crystal,” Hongik Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
Grant
2026 K-ART Young Artists Support Program – Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Korea
2026 Estrid Ericsons Stiftelse
2023 Hongik Scholarship
2022 Hongik Scholarship
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