Soojin Choi

Soojin Choi (b. 1991, South Korea) is a ceramic artist based in the United States, where she has lived and worked since 2010. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015, with a double major in Craft/Material Studies and Painting/Printmaking, and went on to earn her MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in 2018.

Choi has participated in a number of prestigious residency programs, including the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN (supported by the Anonymous Artist Studio Fellowship), Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. She is currently a resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally.

Choi’s practice explores the complexity of human emotion, particularly moments of ambivalence that arise from the interplay between individuals, physical space, and internal states. Working primarily in clay, she constructs layered surfaces that oscillate between flatness and dimensionality, using subtle shifts in expression, gaze, gesture, and color to evoke psychological nuance. Through this interplay of material and form, her works invite viewers into unresolved emotional spaces, where ambiguity becomes a site for empathy and reflection.