Keeryong Choi completed his Master of Design at Edinburgh College of Art and in 2010, continued to embark on a PhD in architectural glass. He has exhibited widely across the UK. His interest lies in studying similarities and differences between cultural groups to understand different aesthetic perceptions based on visual experiences, particularly in relation to unfamiliar materials and surface imagery.

Keeryong continues to explore how the ambiguity of an individual’s cultural interpretation can help to create the state of ‘uncanni-ness’ in visual experiences. He believes that this ‘uncanni-ness’ provokes emotions and feelings. Developing inlaid coloring techniques inspired by the ancient Korean “sanggam” applied to celadon making, ambiguity in delineating geometric patterns and counterfeit letters onto glass is attempted.

Keeryong’s work is in the collection of the Ruskin Glass Centre, City of Edinburgh Council (Museums and Galleries Edinburgh), National Museum of Scotland, The National Glass Centre, The Oriental Museum, UK; Imagine Museum, Corning Museum of Glass, USA. He was selected as the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Finalist 2023.

Collections

Ruskin Glass Centre (UK)

Imagine Museum (USA)

Corning Museum of Glass (USA) 

City of Edinburgh Council - Museums and Galleries Edinburgh (UK)

National Museum of Scotland (UK) 

The National Glass Centre (UK) 

The Oriental Museum (UK)

Awards

2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Finalist

Exhibitions

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 

· Nature Reflected, Scottish gallery, Edinburgh, UK 

· Collect 2023, presented with Bullseyeglass Projects, Summerset House, London, UK

2022

· Glass Biennale 2022’ Ruskin Glass Centre LTD, Stourbridge UK  

· New Glass Now, Toyama art glass museum, Toyama, Japan 

· The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass’, Veste Coburg, Germany 2022 

· Collect 2022, presented with Northland Creative Glass, Summerset House, London, UK,

2021

· New Glass Now, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington, D.C, USA 

· It’s Not Always Black and White, Imagine Museum, Florida, USA

· Artefact presented with Vessel Gallery, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London, UK  

2020

· Glass Lives 2020, Northland Creative Glass, Lybster, UK 

· Nomad Circle ‘Nomad Palaia Bulles’ virtual tour collaborates with Phillips London 

· The Sottish Gallery and Craft Scotland Selects, Scottish gallery, Edinburgh, UK

· Collect 2020, presented with Vessel Gallery, Summerset House, London, UK

2019

· Islanders, The Venice Glass Week, project organized by RÓISÍN de BUITLÉAR, Venice, Italy

· I am all of glass. Marianne Brandt and the art of glass today, 7 th International Marianne Brandt-competition, Chemnitz Museum of Industry, Chemnitz, Germany  

· Loud & Clear, National Glass Centre touring exhibition, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK

· Glass Biennale 2019, Ruskin Glass Centre LTD, Stourbridge UK

· New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA