Born in Seoul, S.Korea, Hur is a New York-based artist who explores cultural identity, spirituality and materiality through ceramics and paintings. She takes inspirations from nature, Korean traditional arts, architecture, Dansaekwha movement, Hinduism and Buddhism. Buddhist understandings of timelessness, vulnerability and ephemerality are rooted in her artistic explorations, and she collapses time and space by reinterpreting past vernaculars through a contemporary lens. For Hur, forms, patterns and textures are a way to suggest subtle movements and impermanence of inner awakenings. The iconic Moonjar which anchors her ceramic practice embody Buddhist teachings, where the notion of emptying oneself is simultaneously an act of releasing and evolving.

 “There’s this incredible aspect of forgiving and embracing when I work with clay and paper. They are free and fluid, yet there’s always a finitude and decisive moment to ‘let go’ and not become attached. I hope to express both expansiveness and vulnerability through emptiness and softness, so that viewer is invited to contemplate, heal and awaken to one’s own ever-changing multitudes.” says Hur.

Her work has been widely exhibited and is in notable private collections in Asia, U.S.A and Europe. Also, her works have been featured in Rizzoli, Wall Street Journal Magazine, NY Times - Tmagazine, AW Architectur & Wohnen- Germany, Architectural Digest-Italia, Elle Decoration-France + Korea, , Baptisa-Greece, Wallpaper, The Architect’s Newspaper, Cereal, Dezeen, Masion Korea, Luxury Editors-Korea, Milk Decoration, Design Anthology, Surface, and Cultured Magazine.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2006) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (2010). She worked as an architect at Diller Scofidio and Renfro, Matthew Baird Architects and Agrest + Ganelsonas Architects.