About the Artist
Chloe Park (b. 1986) is a Korean American multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. She works predominantly in clay.
Park is best known for her layered, meticulously constructed ceramic works that function as compressed autobiographies — each surface a translation of lived experience, emotional memory, and art historical dialogue into glaze and form. Drawing from a personal archive built over decades, her glazing process treats personal experiences and art history as equal source material, carrying the emotional weight of painting while remaining rooted in the ancient, universal language of the vessel.
Her visual lineage is painterly and deliberately unconventional. Park draws from Abstract Expressionism and its descendants — artists for whom surface, mark, and color were never decorative but urgently felt — entering a broader conversation about what ceramic surfaces can hold and how deeply they can speak.
Her work traces the undercurrents of systems of value, sociology, human connection, and the interconnected thread of life. Deeply invested in the practice of unveiling, she makes visible the hidden, nuanced, and unspoken forces behind the structures that shape the environments in which we live. The tension between presence and absence runs through everything: what is built up and what is left exposed, what is remembered and what is slowly transformed.
Park's practice is accumulative and patient — a visual memory may be held for years before it finds its way into a glaze. Classically trained in floral design in the lineage of Ikebana Ikenobo from Kyoto, Japan, she brings a rigorous understanding of negative space, transience, and natural material to her work. A 20+ year practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Amazonian indigenous traditions, these are foundational to how she works and why. An innate drive to challenge authority and social norms, and a sustained inner practice of self-realization, can be felt throughout — both in her engagement with the hegemonic structures that shape contemporary life and in the more instinctual, subconscious currents that run beneath them.
Park brings over a decade of experience as an Art Director and Set Designer in the fashion and entertainment industries, and trained under a noted South Korean artist and designer as a studio assistant and fabricator. Her work has been featured in Vogue US, Vanity Fair UK, House & Garden, and The World of Interiors. She has exhibited at Salone del Mobile in Milan and held an Artist in Residency at La Meridiana in Tuscany.
