•Hyun Jee Suh

Curriculum Vitae

Home Address
2400 N Arizona Ave #2140, Chandler, AZ, 85225
Cell: 480) 252-8025
E-mail Address: hyunjeesuh@hotmail.com

Work Address
Mesa Arts Center
1 East Main St. PO Box 1466, Mesa, AZ, 85211-1466
Phone: (480) 644-6501, Fax: (480) 644-6502

Phoenix Center for Art
1202 N. Third St Phoenix, AZ, 85004
Phone: (602) 262-4627

Tempe Arts Center
3340 S. Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85283
Phone: (480) 350-5287

Encore Creative Decoration and Display LLC
410 S. Madison Dr. #4, Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: (480) 736-2800

Website Address
www.hyunjeesuh.com

Current Status
Recently received an approval of EB1(a alien of extraordinary ability) petition and permanent resident status in the United States by sponsoring myself as a metalsmithing and jewelry artist.

Current Job title
Visual Art Instructor, Resident Artist (Mesa Community College/Mesa Arts Center)
Metalsmithing and Jewelry Instructor (Phoenix Art Center)
Metalsmithing and Jewelry Instructor (Tempe Art Center)
Scenic and theatrical artist (Encore Creative)

Education
2005 M.F.A. Metalsmithing and Jewelry, minor: sculpture, School of Art and Art history, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2004 M.A. Metalsmithing and Jewelry, minor: ceramic, School of Art and Art history, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1997 B.F.A Metalsmithing and Jewelry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Teaching Experience
2006 Currently Visual Art Instructor in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Department at Mesa Community College, Phoenix Center for the Art, and Tempe Arts Center, AZ
2006 Electroforming set up, Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2006 Kumboo and Pomoksanggam Workshop, Mesa Art Center, AZ
2006 Silverware and Jewelry I class, Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2006 Kumboo and Pomoksanggam and Electroforming class, Phoenix Center for the
Arts, AZ
2005 Tiny Teapot and Jewelry I class, Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2005 Hydraulic Press class, Tempe Arts Center, AZ
2005 Electroforming set up, Phoenix Center for the Arts, AZ
2005 Kumboo and Pomoksanggam Workshop, Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2004 (fall) Teaching Assistantship(solo teaching), Introduction Metalsmithing and
Jewelry, School of Art and Art history, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2004 (spring) Studio Teaching Assistantship, School of Art and Art history,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Work Experience
2005-2006 Artist in Residency, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2005 Lonnie¡¯s, Phoenix, AZ, assistant for metalsmithing and jewelry supplies, equipment and tool sale, Phoenix, AZ
2002-2005 Monitoring metalsmithing and jewelry studio, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA

News Release
2002 News released in KBC News Desk (TV), Gala Fashion Jewelry Show at Sungnam Art Convention Center, Sungnam, Korea
2004 News released in Iowa Republic, Group Show at Chan Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2006 News released in East Valley Living, Mesa Contemporary Arts' 27th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ
2007 News released in Phoenix New Times, Mesa Contemporary Arts' 27th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ

Invited Group Exhibitions

2007 Phoenix Horbor Airport Museum Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ
2007 Fashion Jewelry Show, Mesa Contemporary Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ
2005 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Show, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Art Fair at Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ
2005 MFA Exhibition at the University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
2004 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program Exhibition, Main Entrance Gallery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, Iowa City, IA
2004 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program Exhibition, Bridge Space, Art Building, University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa
2004 The University of Iowa and Kyung-Gem Metalsmith Association Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2004 Fund Raising Show at the Downtown Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2003 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program Exhibition, Bridge Space, Art
Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
2000 Gala Show in fashion jewelry part, Cheoungjoo, Korea

Selected Juried Group Exhibitions
2006 Holiday Market Show at Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, AZ
2006 Faculty Show, Mesa Contemporary Arts Gallery, Mesa Art Center, Mesa AZ
2006 Exhibition, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
2005 Mesa Contemporary Arts' 27th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition,
Mesa, AZ. Juror: Jane Milosch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's
Renwick Gallery
2005 Exhibition for the SOFA Show, YAW Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan,
(necklace, earring)
2005 Craft National 39, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Zoller Gallery, State College, Pennsylvania Juror: Jean W. Mclaughlin, (brooch)
2005 Topeka Competition XXVII (Topeka show), Alice C. Sabatini Gallery,
Topeka, KS. Juror: Isabel Barbuzza, (brooch)
2004 La Petite XII, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR, (brooch)
2004 Contemporary VI: Juried International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE, (teapot)
2004 Craft National 38, Craft Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Zoller Gallery,
Visual Art Building Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania. Juror:
Gail M Brown
2004 Topeka competition XXVI, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka,
KS. Juror: Elaine Coleman, (hollowware)
2004 Society of North American Goldsmith (SNAG student exhibition), St. Petersburg, Florida, (brooch)
2003 Topeka competition 25 XXV, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka,
KS. Juror: Matthew Zupinck, (teapot)
2003 La Petite XI, Elegance& New jewelry to wear by: Christin Sundt, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR, (brooch)
2003 Craft Houston 2003: National Juried Exhibition, Houston center for contemporary craft, Texas. Juror: Llyod Herman, (brooch)
2003 Society of North American Goldsmith (SNAG student exhibition), San Francisco, CA, Juror: Julia Turner and Whitney Couch, Exhibition Coordinators, (Flower Bowl)
2002 Student Niche Awards, Baltimore, Maryland, (Breast Decoration)

Honors and awards
2004 Material and tuition scholarship, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Scholarship Fund, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2004 Teaching Assistantship award, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2003 Material and tuition scholarship, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Scholarship Fund, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2003 Second place in S$am competition, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program, Iowa City, IA, (brooch)
2003 Second place in Lois Jacklin competition, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Program, Iowa City, IA, (tea set)
2003 First place in Lapidary journal Competition, North Carolina, (earring)
2003 Best in Metal/wood category, Iowa craft 36, MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA, Juror: Judi Petkau, (hollowware)
2002 Material and tuition scholarship, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Scholarship Fund, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2002 Honorable mention in Lois Jecklin competition, Iowa City, IA, (teapot)
2002 Finalist in Student Niche Awards, Baltimore, Maryland, (Breast Decoration)

Publications
2005 Mesa Contemporary Arts' 27th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition,
Mesa, AZ, (exhibition catalogue)
2004 Craft Houston: National 2003, Houston center for contemporary craft, Texas
(exhibition catalogue), (broach)
2004 The University of Iowa and Kyung-Gem Metalsmithing Association Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (exhibition catalogue), tea set
2003 Lapidary Journal Magazine, September 2003, VOL 57, NO.6, PP 31, North Carolina (art magazine), (earring)
2003 Best in Metal/wood category, Iowa craft 36, MacNider Art Museum, Mason
City, IA, Juror: Judi Petkau, (exhibition catalogue), (hollowware)

Online Publications
2006 The University of Iowa Jewelry and Metal Arts Program, Iowa City, IA,
www.art.uiowa.edu/art_studio/ Metals/pgs/Gstd/G_suh-h_03.html
2005 Topeka Capital-Journal, The: Mix media, mixed reations, Topeka, KS,
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_qn4179/is_20050313/ai_n12937503 - 33k
2004 Topeka Capital-Journal, The Quality vs. Quantity, Topeka, KS,
www.old.ajou.ac.kr/~ent/new/education/resident/ - 13k
2004 Contemporary VI: Juried International Exhibition, Period Gallery,
Lincoln, NE (online exhibition), (teapot), www.periodgallery.com
2003 La Petite XI, Elegance& New jewelry to wear by: Christin Sundt, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR, (broach), www.alderart.com
2003 Lapidary Journal Magazine, September 2003, VOL 57, NO.6, PP 31, North Carolina (art magazine), (earring), www.lapidaryjournal.com
2002 Lasertrans online artist (online exhibition), (mirror), www.lazertran.com



Collections
Private Collections including Lois Jecklin (Collector, Washington, DC), Jane Milosch
(Curator, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC), Polly Smith(Educational Director at Mesa Art Center).

Association (Memberships)
Society of North American Goldsmith
College Art Association of America

Qualifications
Expertise in traditional and contemporary metalsmithing, jewelry, mixed media and sculpture techniques including:
3-D and 2-D computer program (Rhinoceros, Illustrator, 3-D Max, Auto Cad, 3-D Printer: 3-D Modeling out of plastic), forming (forging, stretching, sinking, dapping, raising, fold forming, silent metal forming, hydraulic die forming, electroforming, deep drawing), joining (soldering, riveting, tap and die, fusing, and other cold connections), welding (oxy-propane, oxy-acetylene, fusion, arc, TIG, and MIG), surface treatment (filing, sanding, polishing, planishing, texturing, chasing, etching, roll printing, reticulation, granulation, fusion, kumboo, anodizing, laser transfer, electro applique, paint and pigment application to 3-D objects, sand blasting and patination), modeling (wax modeling, computer modeling, clay modeling, 3-D Printer modeling), mold making (large and small scale plaster and rubber molds), casting (large scale plaster investment, large scale bronze casting, small vacuum casting, centrifugal casting), tool making (Chasing, engraving, stone setting and pattern stamp tools), stone setting (bezel, gypsy, tube setting, prong setting, hammer setting, tension setting, electroformed setting and other unconventional settings), enameling, (all major vitreous enameling techniques for jewelry and metalworking), enamel painting, mechanisms (hinges, catches, box lock, clasps and other movable parts and findings), unconventional materials (plastics, rubber, acrylics, Plexiglas, glass, wood, fabric, found objects and other materials), Korean traditional technique (Kumboo and Pomoksangam), slide and digital photography.

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•Bio

"Hyun Jee Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1978. She started her art experience by taking art classes when she was 6 years old. She attended Yewon art junior school and high school as she experienced painting, drawing, figure modeling, sculpting, and designing. In 1997, she entered Seoul National University in art department and she chose her major as metalsmithing and jewelry and finished B.F.A program. In 2002, she extended the field of metalsmithing and jewelry study to U.S. In 2005, she received M.F.A in metalsmithing and jewelry from the University of Iowa. While she was in graduate program in Iowa, she received many awards, including First Place in Lapidary Journal and Best in Show in McNider Museum, from competitions and built the exhibition records. After her graduation, she was granted artist residency from Mesa Arts Center and has taught jewelry classes at arts centers in Arizona. She has contracted with several galleries in U.S. and achieved success in sale's record. At present, she keeps producing her art work and devotes herself to become a desirable teacher."
•Artist Statement
I like to see new and freshness that can have all the audience¡¯s attention at the first glance of my work. I want my piece to let people keep their eyes upon and at the same time to have permanent beauty in terms of harmony and composition. I am trying to keep my art pieces that are new and fresh by vivid color, playful, humorous idea or inventive technique having permanent beauty, as well. At this point, creating fresh, innovative art work and, at the same time, creating artwork that has timeless beauty are the most concerns for me when I make my piece.

In my opinion, art piece has to make people eyes stop and let them take a look at the piece. If nobody notices that certain piece is sitting there, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s good enough for being a successful art piece. No matter what direction it is, such as minimalism, expressionism, either geometric or organic element of the direction, I think art piece has to have their own attractiveness that can drag people¡¯s attention. Therefore, I try to make new and fresh art pieces. I have to think about the elements that can make artwork standing out and innovative. In design aspect, the epochal composition of the line is the one of the elements. I try to find new composition of lines that nobody has done it before or very rare. Another element that I love to do is interpreting the idea as my own voice. I don¡¯t mind using very comment element such as flower, heart shape, or some idea from the nature. However, the most important thing is that how I am going to digest this idea in to my own flower, my own heart shape or my own idea from any ides. I enjoy this process of finding an idea anywhere around me. It can be a building in a city or nature or even my dream or memory. Another element that can make piece out standing is using right color. Right use of the vivid color can definitely make piece to have attention. However, when I use color, it is very important to consider relation to any other color that used in rest or the area or relation with the design or the composition of lines. I like to use the color in very right place and the right moment. In my piece Lolly Pop, I used powder coating with vivid orange color and I anodized the stem and leaf parts with green. I liked the contrast between green and vivid orange color. For my Coffee table, I chose white color and used pink for the inside of the cone shape for the focal point. I wanted this piece to have unity and little bit of variation. Contrast can be very good element that can make artwork conspicuous, too. In finishing process, contrast between mat finishing and shiny finishing can be very good use for expressing idea clearly. In design aspect, concentrating lots of element together and making rest of area empty is another intensive way to express this contrast thought. In my Pretending to be happy II, I gathered a lot of little flower units in the middle part and separated one flower unit at the one corner. I like to apply humorous idea or make playful artwork, also in order to make artwork fun and interesting. In my Narcissism piece, I got the image of Marline Monroe by Andy Warhol and then transferred that image to the aluminum sheet. I tried to express narcissism by using Marline Monroe image that is a sex symbol and tried to express mirror idea in a humorous way.

Now, I want to emphasize on the permanent artistic value of the art piece. A lot of art pieces that have very fun concept, vivid color or some even successful element that can grab the audience¡¯s attention also often time miss most important aspect of the art, which is timeless beauty. Even though certain pieces are very fresh and new, if it is easy to be sick of after while, that piece is not perfect as an art piece. For me, to find the element of timeless beauty is as important as making piece fresh and creative. It is hard to say that what makes the artwork to have timeless beauty. However, as I thought about the elements of the timeless beauty, it could be the perfect harmony and composition of the lineal quality and color and any other elements. I believe that there is perfect compositional harmony in any kinds of the art pieces, same as in the past, people believed the golden mean. Choosing the right color, texture or scale for the certain pieces decides the perfect harmony of the artwork and leads it to successful piece.

In short, I like to express my idea in a simple and creative way and I liked to interpret it in my artistic voice. Overall, I like to see a freshness, simplicity and elegant harmony in my artwork.

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