Seuil Chung

Seuil Chung is an artist and instructor based in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BFA in Studio Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and his MFA in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021. His work was shown at the Akron Art Museum for the FRONT International Triennial held in Northeast Ohio in 2022. He is currently a 2023-24 artist-in-residence in the ceramics department at the Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Chung has worked in both performance art and ceramics. As a performer, he recognized the importance of incorporating his body into his art practice, and this realization eventually led him to start working with clay. Chung was drawn to clay for its tactile and flexible qualities, which allowed him to create abstract sculptures that blur the line between bodily representation and ceramic material. Drawing inspiration from his intuitive drawings, Chung mainly uses coils and slabs to build his sculptures with clay. He emphasizes the physicality of his forms by using the hand-building method, which creates imperfect structures and subtle impressions of his hands on the clay’s surface.