Jin A. Seo

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Education

• 2016 MFA in Metal, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign, Ill.
• 2012 BFA in Metalwork & Jewelry Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, S. Korea

Teaching

• ART 223 Beginning Metals and Jewelry
• ART 322 Intermediate Metals: casting and raising
• ART 323 Intermediate Metals: enameling
• ART 324 Advanced Metals
• ART 399 Individual Instruction

Research and professional interests

• Craft (metal and fiber)
• Wearable objects

Selected exhibitions

• “Under the Layers,” Solo Exhibition, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2017
• “The Room of Desires,” Raumwerk, Munich Jewelry Week, Munich, Germany, 2017
• “Duality of Presence,” super+CENTERCOURT, Munich Jewelry Week, Munich, Germany, 2017
• “UNEXPECTED,” Craft Council of British Columbia Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2016
• “A Dark Spark of Light,” Alliages, Lille, France, 2015
• “METALLOphone: Personally,” (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014

Awards and honors

• SNAG Connects Council Leader – West Central region, 2017
• SNAG Emerging Artist 2016, SOFA Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 2016
• Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., 2016
• Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., 2016
• Shirayuki Itami Morohaku Award (Gold Award), ITAMI International Craft Exhibition, Itami, Japan, 2010

Additional resources

• Portfolio