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.