Yoona Hur is a Seoul-born, New York–based artist whose practice explores cultural identity, spirituality, and materiality through ceramics and painting. Drawing from Korean traditional arts, nature, meditation, and eastern philosophies of timelessness and impermanence, her practice evokes the contemplative spaces between presence and change.

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. For Hur, forms, patterns and textures are a way to suggest the infinite movements of inner awakenings.

“There’s this incredible aspect of forgiving and embracing when I work with clay and Hanji (Korean mulberry 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 and growing 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-France, Design Anthology-Hong Kong, Surface, and Cultured Magazine.

Graduate of The Cooper Union [Bachelor of Architecture ‘10] and The School of Art Institute of Chicago [Bachelor of Fine Arts ‘06], she worked as an architect in New York City at Matthew Baird Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects. She has been a guest lecturer and critic at The Cooper Union, SCAD and The School of Art Institute of Chicago.