Artist Statement/ Biography

Hae Won Sohn's work is an active research of building extractive forms, furthermore a nonlinear narrative study that develops dimensions, fragility, and aggregation through hand-made processes. Sohn's object-sculptures, often presented in/as series, become evidence of a system which adopts deconstruction, reconstruction, and failure as a parallel model to success. The artist further (re)create forms by making molds and casting studio-artifacts such as fragmented molds or exaggerated abstractions of the same. In this continuous form-finding Sohn tends to build relationships between new origins, thoughts, and contradictions while proposing a methodology that enjoys invention in transition.

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Hae Won Sohn is an artist from Seoul, South Korea living and working in the United States. In her practice, the artist utilizes materials such as porcelain clay, plaster, mineral oxide pigments, aluminum foil, and metalware in her handmade processes incorporating the systems and structures of casting. Sohn holds degrees both in Ceramics from the College of Design at Kookmin University (BFA, Seoul, South Korea) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). Sohn has exhibited at venues such as The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; Emmanuel Barbault Gallery, New York, NY; Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; MONO Practice, Baltimore, MD; Project Space of Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD, and more.