Hae Won Sohn

Hae Won Sohn is a visual artist and craftswoman currently based in Baltimore, MD. She is a 2018-2020 long term resident artist at Baltimore Clayworks and Adjunct Professor of Ceramics at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University. Coming from Seoul, South Korea; Sohn earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the College of Design at Kookmin University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Ceramics Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Sohn has recently been selected as a finalist for the inaugural Galerie Emerging Artist Award (2019) by Galerie Magazine. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Emmanuel Barbault Gallery, New York, NY; Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; MONO Practice, Baltimore, MD; Next Step Studio & Gallery, Ferndale, MI; Zahoorul Akhlaq Gallery of National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan; and Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea.

“Objects I create are casts of fragmented molds or exaggerated abstractions of the same. Molds—historically used to as voids— transform their behavior to now an engaged cast.”