born in 1976
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.
*Phtography by Jaro Mikos, Shannon Tofts
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)
2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Finalist
2021 Open Project fund for developing a new body of work, Creative Scotland
2018 Visual Artist/Craft Makers Award from Edinburgh Council, Scotland
2017 Open Project funding from Creative Scotland for developing a new body of work for COLLECT Art Fair 2018
2015 Residency Award, Glass Biennale 2015 National Glass Centre (NGC)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Craft Trend Fair, Coex, Korea
FINE CRAFT by SOLUNA - Mass and Void, Gallery 6, Cromwell Place, UK
2023
LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize Exhibition, The Noguchi Museum, USA
Nature Reflected, Scottish gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Collect Art Fair, 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 Art Fair, 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 Art Fair, 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, 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
