YAERIN PYUN
ABOUT
The recognition that all beings share a state of change and dissolution transforms our attitude toward the Other. Rather than treating the Other as a fixed object, it allows us to view them as a state of being that requires active attention and care. This perspective demands an experience of slowness, enabling us to perceive the subtle changes revealed over time, and opens up the possibility for different existences to form relationships based on this shared condition.
Yaerin's practice begins from the realization of sharing this state of change and dissolution through the medium of ceramics. Ceramic serves as a medium where fleeting life and eternal temporality intersect, acting as a sensory archive condensed with time and memory. Solid stones that appear unyielding and filled within are transformed into fragile, hollowed structures, while the fragility and ephemerality symbolized by moss and flowers are coated in porcelain slip and fired, causing the original forms to burn away and transform into enduring, durable matter. Through this firing process, ceramics emerge as a medium fraught with unpredictable changes and traces, exposing the boundary between what has vanished and what remains.
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EDUCATION:
2023 MA, Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass, London, UK
2019 BFA, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Ceramic Arts and Design, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED AWARDS:
2026 Officine Saffi Award 6, Finalist, Milan, Italy
2025 Ceramics Now Magazine 15-Year Anniversary Edition Open Call, Selected Artist
2025 6th Triennial of Kogei, Finalist, Kanazawa, Japan
2025 63rd Premio Faenza Prize, Monica Biserni Prize, Faenza, Italy
2024 The 1st Seoul Yoolizzy Craft Awards, Finalist, Seoul, South Korea
2023 FRANZ Rising Star Scholarship, Winner, Taipei, Taiwan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Poem for Ephemeral Moments, Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2024 Landscape Between the End and Beginning, Studio Pottery London, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026
<Forms of Belonging> Officine Saffi Award 6, Fondazione Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
Frieze Seoul, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Secret Ceramics, Sotheby's, London, UK
Origin of Materials, St George Gallery, London, UK
2025
Design Miami, Pride Park, Miami Beach, US
Salon Art & Design, Park Ave Armory, New York, US
6th Triennial of Kogei, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Tabled, Charles Burnand Gallery, London, UK
PAD London, Berkeley Sq, London, UK
Fine Art Asia, HKCEC, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Design Miami <Illuminated : A Spotlight on Korean Design>, DDP, Seoul, South Korea
63rd Premio Faenza, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Objects of Permanence, Charles Burnand Gallery, London, UK
Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taiwan
Landscape of Materials, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2024
Crayon, Hyangwoon, Seoul, South Korea
The Language of Craft, The Korean Cultural Center Shanghai, Shanghai, China
The Language of Craft, Museum of Wu, Suzhou, China
The 1st Seoul Yoolizzy Craft Award Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul, South Korea
Korea Craft Week Exhibition, Mugyewon, Seoul, South Korea
The Wind From The East, Eton College, Berkshire, UK
2023
Hubbub, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
London Design Festival, Charles Burnand Gallery, London, UK
Royal College of Art Degree Show, RCA Battersea Campus, London, UK
Inside Me, Ttukseom Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
RCA WIP Show, RCA Battersea Campus, London, UK
Publications:
Ecological Design in the 21st Century, Yeokrak Publishing Co., 2026, p. 245
Ceramics Now Magazine, 15-Year Anniversary Edition, 2025 - Featured Artist
Asian Art Contemporary, December 2025 - Featured Artist
Picker by Team. Seohwa, July 2025 - Featured Artist (Video Interview)
Country Living, July 2025 - Featured Artist
Craft Culture Magazine, Issue No.64, 2024 - Featured Artist
Collections:
International Museum of Ceramics, Charles Burnand Gallery