“Gateway to Fortune,” 2026, ceramics, wood, neon, glaze, 12 × 7 × 11 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Ling Chun
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Ling Chun is a multimedia artist from Hong Kong, currently based in Seattle. Her work explores the coexistence of multicultural identities, using materials such as ceramics, hair, and neon to reflect themes of cultural memory, transformation, and the disappearing visual language of home.
She received her BFA in Visual Communication Design and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, and her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. Her practice combines knowledge of Chinese cultural traditions with a contemporary visual language, creating objects that engage with history and personal narrative.
Ling has held residencies at Seward Park Clay Studio (2012–13), Arquetopia in Puebla, Mexico (2015), c.r.e.t.a.rome in Italy (2016), the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana (2016–18), and Pottery Northwest in Seattle (2018–20). She was named a 2020 Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), received the ArtBridge Fellowship sponsored by Chihuly Garden and Glass, was shortlisted for the 2019 Young Masters Art Prize in London, and was a finalist for the 2021 Korea International Ceramics Biennale. She is also a 2025 GAP grantee from Artist Trust.
Ling currently teaches ceramics at North Seattle College. Her recent work investigates Chinese neon sign-making as both a disappearing craft and a personal act of preservation—melding light and clay to hold memory, belonging, and identity in a single form.
Selected works
“The Neon She Remembered,” 2020, ceramics, brass, faux fur and hair, neon, wood, 23 × 43 × 23 in. Photo by Ian Lewis.
“The Bride,” 2025, ceramics, brass, neon, PNW blue pine, tassel, 12 × 15 × 9 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Sigh Sign,” 2020, ceramics, neon, transformers, plastic mesh, pine wood, house paint, 6 × 12 × 4 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“I Got Gum in My Hair,” 2023, ceramics, hair, brass, 13 × 10 × 8 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Red Moon Jar with Flying Words,” 2023, ceramics, hair, brass, 12 × 12 × 8 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Gateway to Abundance,” 2026, ceramics, wood, neon, glaze, 16 × 12 × 17 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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