Hae Won (first name) Sohn (last name) is a visual artist and craftswoman based in Sunnyside, Queens and Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She works with various materials that comes along the practicality of her casting process which involves plaster and clay as primary materials, and further utilizes studio-artifacts generated from the material-ecosystem built around her making practice for her tactile and visual exploration.
For interests in visiting the artist’s studio or any other inquiries, please reach out to haewsohn@gmail.com .
SOLO
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THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Moult (upcoming solo, February), Subtitled NYC, Brooklyn, NY
chocolate milk cow milk (upcoming solo, February), Thomas Park, Seoul, South Korea
2022
Unspoken Volumes, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The Keyboard 1/5, Zahoorul Akhlaq Gallery of National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Untitled Group Exhibition, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX
2018
12 x 12, MONO Practice, Baltimore, MD
The Chronicles of LA | Chapter 2 - Self, 242 S Broadway St, Los Angeles, CA
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
SSNYC Annual Members Group Exhibition, Sculpture Space NYC, New York, NY
Spring Happening - Annual Group Show (curated by Narine Kchikian), Next Step Studios & Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Symbiosis, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI
2018 Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,MI
Small Favors 2018, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Basically 15’ x 50’, Gallery One | Collective Works (G1|CW), Pittsburgh, PA
Leftovers: REHEATED, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2017
Easy Come Easy Go, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
DYAD, David Salkin Creative, Chicago, IL
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
Jet Lag, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2015
09 10 11 12 - BFA Thesis Show, Gallery Mokkumto, Seoul, South Korea
Seoul-See 서울視, Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea
From 2D to 3D, Cho-hyung Gallery of Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
EDUCATION
MFA - Ceramics ‘18, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
BFA - Ceramics ‘16, College of Design at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022
Get Ready Grant, CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund), Mont Pelier, VT
2021
Winner, Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Baltimore, MD (Jurors: Naz Cuguoglu, Michelle Grabner, and Meleko Mokgosi)
International Residency Partial Fellowship, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Relief, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY
(2017 Dec - 2018 Aug) Contributing Writer, Monthly Ceramic Art Korea 월간도예, Seoul, South Korea
(2017 Summer) Intern as Project Managing Assistant to Peter Oltheten (former Project Manager), Sundaymoring @ekwc (former European Ceramic Workcentre), Oisterwijk, Netherlands
(2015 Summer) Intern / Assistant to Kyungsoon Park (Artistic Director for the 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale - “GICB”), Korea Ceramic Foundation (KOCEF), Public Relations TF Ream Satellite Office at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea