Grant Recipient

“Tell Me How You Really Feel,” interactive light installation, temporary installation at Craters of the Moon National Monument. Photo courtesy of the artist.

MiNHi England

Teaching Artist Cohort

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2026

MiNHi England is a Seattle-based artist working across a broad range of historic and contemporary glass processes. Using the optics of glass through light and reflection, she creates sculpture and installations that explore memory, perception, grief, and transformation. England received her BFA in glassblowing and metal casting from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design. Over the past 18 years, she has built a career spanning studio practice, public art, and education. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and includes public commissions for the Port of Seattle, as well as exhibitions at institutions including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and Corning Museum of Glass. She has also taught and demonstrated glassmaking throughout the United States and internationally.

England is drawn to materials that hold contradictions. Glass can reveal and conceal, protect and expose, distort and clarify, often all at once. Rather than resolving these tensions, she uses them to examine the ways people adapt to experiences that permanently alter them.

Born in Germany to a military family and raised in the United States, England is a first-generation Korean American artist whose perspective has been shaped by questions of belonging, visibility, and inherited history. While her work often begins with deeply personal experiences, it reaches beyond autobiography to create space for shared recognition. Through reflection, light, and subtle optical illusion, she invites viewers to slow down, question what they see, and consider how perception shifts through movement, memory, and time. Her work embraces ambiguity, creating space where beauty and discomfort coexist and transformation can be experienced rather than simply observed.