Suji Park (born 1985) is a Korean-New Zealand ceramic sculptor and artist. In 2015, she was Artist in Residence at McCahon House in

Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ...

, New Zealand. Park was born in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

, Korea, and moved to New Zealand with her family when she was 12 years old. The family settled in Auckland and she attended St Cuthbert's College. She studied at

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, graduating with a master's in fine arts in 2013. Many of Park's pieces are of distorted human forms, although vessels and abstract objects are also produced. Some of her art works are created in metal but appear to be ceramic, or are ceramic with a metallic glaze. Park's work has been exhibited in solo shows at galleries in Auckland and

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, the

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, Waitakere Contemporary Gallery and at the Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition on

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. It is also held in the collection of

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. In addition to presenting solo exhibitions, Park has collaborated with photographers and performance artists, such as for a 2016 show in Auckland, 647nM, with Zahra Killeen-Chance and Solomon Mortimer. In 2016 Park published a book about her work, ''Original Unknown''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Suji Living people 1985 births Elam Art School alumni South Korean emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand people of Korean descent New Zealand sculptors New Zealand women artists Artists from Seoul