Eunsuh Choi

Dreams IV

Flameworked borosilicate glass

"I’m interested in portraying human aspiration with organic forms from the new perspective I had about myself within a foreign country. Originally from South Korea, I relocated to the United States. To address my interest in human aspiration, I like to integrate my personal philosophy and experience incorporating my Korean heritage into the work in an effort to merge my Eastern background and my Western experiences, similar to how we, as humankind, are unified through the sensation of personal ambition.

The structures that I create within recent work resemble objects that the viewer is familiar with in daily living. Ladders, trees, clouds, boxes, houses, and even hybrids of the five appear as reoccurring formal motifs. "

– Eunsuh Choi

About the artist

Eunsuh Choi

Korean-born glass artist Eunsuh Choi is a portrait artist whose flame-worked pieces are personal narratives, portraits of her own moments of growth. Choi’s is the archetypal immigrant’s tale run through the artist’s filter. Choi arrived in the U.S. having already completed a Master’s degree in glass from Kookmin University (Korea), but determined to pursue further glass education. She chose the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as a place where she could both study English and earn a second MFA degree in glass.

Choi prefers to work larger than life. Her piece “Aspiration,” which is 12-feet in height, is in the permanent collection of the Corning Museum of Glass. Her artworks are also in the European Museum of Modern Glass (Germany), Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Cafesjian Foundation (Armenia), Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), Lotte Hotel Yangon (Myanmar), Korea Craft Museum (KOREA), Kim Young English Institute (KOREA), EU Glass (USA), Pureun Cultural Foundation (KOREA), Tozour Energy Systems (USA), Byuck San Engineering Co.Ltd (KOREA) and she was nominated as a searchlight artist by the American Craft Council in 2009 and got a talent award from Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation in Germany in April 2013.

Choi’s work has been featured in a number of magazines, including Sculpture, NEUES GLAS, The Flow, DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, Coburger Tage Bllatt, Necie Presse, Pittsburgh, Whirl, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, South Jersey Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 500 Rings, Art Buzz, NICHE , Public Art, GLASHAUS, Glass, Profitable Glass, American Craft, Jungle, Luxury, New Glass Review.

She has given lectures at The State University of New York College at Brockport (USA), Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), International Flameworking Conference (USA), Tyler School of Temple University (USA), Chungju University (KOREA), Kookmin University (KOREA), Wilson High School (USA), UrbanGlass (USA), International Society of Glass Beadmakers (USA), Hongik University (KOREA), and Cornish College of the Arts (USA).