“Was Glowing Up There,” 2023, cold-finished ceramic surface (post-firing oil pastel drawing), 38 × 68 × 28 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
SunYoung Park
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
SunYoung Park is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on ceramics while expanding into drawing and mixed media. Through sculpture and works on paper, she explores hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between body, landscape, and object, drawing from personal memory, material transformation, and cross-cultural experience.
Park has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the International Contemporary Ceramic Art Triennial in Andenne, Belgium. Her work has also been presented at NADA New York. She was selected as a 2026 NCECA Emerging Artist and was awarded a 2026 MASS MoCA Studios General Fellowship.
Alongside her studio practice, Park is committed to teaching and community engagement. She has taught ceramics and drawing at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, Metropolitan Community College, Johnson County Community College, and Belger Arts Center. Most recently, she completed an Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer appointment at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center at the University of Kansas. She is currently a Long- Term Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.
Selected works
“The Rock Had Been on That Wooden Floor in 1998,” 2021, ceramic with gold luster, watercolor-painted soft sculpture, tasseled soft sculpture with graphite drawing on fabric, 62 × 31 × 26 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Summer Mountain and Shadow in the Night,” 2022, ceramic, tassel, cold-finished ceramic surface (post-firing surface treatment with pastel and colored pencil drawing), 46 × 35 × 10 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Summer Mountain and Shadow in the Night (detail),” 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Captured,” 2023, cold-finished ceramic surface (post-firing colored pencil drawing), 68 × 40 × 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“A Belief,” 2023, soft sculpture with graphite drawing and tassel, cold-finished ceramic surface (post-firing watercolor painting), 84 × 30 × 30 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Flowing,” 2023, cold-finished ceramic surface (post-firing colored pencil and oil pastel drawing), 78 × 13 × 13 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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