EDUCATION
2019 Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
2016 Mentee, ongoing mentorship, Master Clay Jung-Hong Kim and Sylvia Kim
RESIDENCIES
2025 Deer Lake Artist Residency, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC
Visiting Artist, The Clay Corner, Seattle, USA
2019 Artist-in-Resident, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India
2016 Ceramic Artist-in-Resident, Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody, BC
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Korean Ceramics Collective Group Show, ACT Art Centre, Maple Ridge, BC
Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver BC (two person exhibition)
2025 Ceramics Narratives: A Midsummer Journey, Jig Art, Vancouver, BC
Emergence 2025, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Fraser Valley Potter’s Guild 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC
Beacon, NCECA 2025 Featured Exhibition, The Leonardo, Human Rights Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
2024 Celebration, Korean Ceramics Collective Group Show, Outlet Gallery, Port Coquitlam, BC
NCECA 2024 Emerging Artist Fellows Exhibition, Richmond, VA
2023 An Abundance of Caring, PoMoArts, Port Moody, BC
The Bread Show, Bell Projects, Denver, CO, USA
2022 Across the Jade Ocean, Ann Kitching Gallery, PoMoArts, Port Moody, BC
Han-soom, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC (two-person exhibition)
DoChi, Place des Arts, Coquitlam, BC
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, salonlb., Chicago, IL, USA
Se Son Rose, Fioriranno, salonlb., Chicago, IL, USA
2019 A mode of resilience against Orientalism and erasure. Site-specific installation, salonlb., Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Show, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Visible, Foundation of Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM), Gene Siskel Film Centre, Chicago, IL
2018 Symbiosis: SAIC x Cranbrook Ceramics Graduate Exchange Show, Pop-up at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2017 Dirty Laundry, PoMoArts, Port Moody, BC (solo exhibition)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2025 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant
Finalist, Winifred Shantz Emerging Artist Award for Ceramics
2024 BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant
NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowship
Canada Council of Arts Travel Grant
2023 Canada Council of Arts Professional Development Grant
2021 BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant
2019 John W. Kurtich Travel Fellowship
2018 BC Arts Council Scholarship
2017 School of the Art Institute New Artists Society Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
2024 NCECA 2024 Emerging Artists: Gloria Jue-Youn Han, 2024 NCECA Coalescence, Journal Vol. 44
TALKS, LECTURES, and PANELS
2025 Artist talk, The Clay Corner and the Center for Community Ceramics, Seattle, WA
Presenter: Traditional Korean Throwing Methods, NCECA Makerspace, Salt Lake City, Utah
Presenter, Demos for Charity Series, The Clay Warehouse, Port Coquitlam, BC
2024 Emerging Artist Lecture, NCECA 2024 Closing Ceremonies, Richmond, VA
Panelist, ‘Special Session: The Future in the Field’ NCECA 2024
Presenter, Fraser Valley Potters Guild, Surrey, BC
2022 Department Artist Talk, Langara Fine Arts Speaker Series, Vancouver, BC
Artist talk, Megaphone Series, Alberta University of the Arts Students’ Association
Presenter, SAGA Speaker Series, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2020 Guest Speaker, Indigenous Sharing Circle, ECUAD, Vancouver BC
2018 Presenter, 10th Grand Valley State University Ceramics Forum, Grand Valley, MI
INTERVIEWS
2023 Ep. 403 Being Part of a Lineage, The Makers Playbook
2022 AGE Artist Interview, Art Gallery at Evergreen YouTube Series, Coquitlam BC
Mugshot Series, Vancouver North by Northwest, CBC Radio
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-24 Board Member, Treasurer, 2022-24, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023 Assessor, BC Arts Council
Juror, Fraser Valley Potter’s Guild Annual Exhibition ‘Transformation’
2021-22 Ceramics Instructor and Studio Technician, Place des Arts, Coquitlam, BC
Ceramics Instructor, ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge, BC
2019-22 Ceramics Instructor and Studio Operator, Surrey Arts Centre, Surrey, BC
2018 Curatorial Assistant, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - present Instructor, Langara College, Vancouver, BC
2022 - present Sessional Instructor, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
Gloria Jue-Youn Han makes art that investigates how traditions are altered, adapted and created anew by diasporic peoples. She draws connections between her experience as a first-generation Korean Canadian daughter of immigrants and the ways in which traditions survive through tumultuous events in history. In this connection, she is able to use craft to communicate moments of extreme care, commitment, intimacy and love.
Han received the BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant to partake in a mentorship with master potter Clay Jung Hong Kim and potter Sylvia Kim to increase the rigour in her ongoing studies in traditional Korean ceramics. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University, and her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gloria Han lives in Coquitlam and teaches at Langara College and Emily Carr University.