McKnight Artist Resident Lecture: Jing Huang and Jinhee Kwon

Please join us in welcoming our Summer Residents to the NCC community. During their time with us in Minneapolis, each artist will present a talk on their work, with time afterward for questions.

Thursday, July 23rd 5pm CT, FREE

Jing Huang was born and raised in Guilin, China, and is a ceramic artist currently living and working in the United States. She received degrees from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in China (BA, Ceramic Art, 2012), Sheridan College in Canada (Diploma, Crafts and Design – Ceramics, 2015), and Alfred University in the US (MFA, Ceramic Art, 2020). Huang has exhibited extensively and has received many awards and honors. In 2023, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and Ceramics Monthly Magazine featured her as an Emerging Artist. She was also the recipient of the Liu Shiming Artist Grant, the Silver Award at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, and the Second Prize at the Shiwan Cup Competition in 2024. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Eton College, Durham University Oriental Museum, Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum, Mint Museum, and Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections Museum.

Jinhee Kwon

Jinhee Kwon (S. Korea) aims to expand the boundaries of traditional ceramics. With a diverse background in ceramics, textiles, visual arts, and video arts, her work brings in inspiration from architecture balanced with her use of bold colors, and geometric shapes. She strives for both visual intensity and sculptural harmony in her explorations of structure, form, and space in clay, and reinterprets traditional ceramic forms through a contemporary design perspective.

Kwon holds a degree in Craft from the Department of Design at Suwon University, and an MFA in Ceramics from Hongik University. She was recently awarded the Gold Prize at the Taiwan Ceramic Biennale, and has participated in residencies at the Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan and the Visiting Artist Program at Tainan National University of the Arts. She continues to extend her international reach through participation in various exhibitions and residencies abroad.