Soojin Choi’s ceramic sculptures use tangled body parts to draw attention to the otherness found as a foreigner, and her unresolved nature of finding a “home”. Always highlighting exactly two consciouses in each artwork, she weaves the limbs together so it is often impossible to find where one body ends and other begins.

Choi was quoted by the New York Times saying, “I believe we can read each other more clearly through body language, especially because I’m always thinking and speaking in two different languages, and not perfectly in either one. In some ways, I feel like a foreigner in both Korea and America now — but at the same time, I feel more empathetic for the differences between the countries, too.’”

Soojin Choi was born and raised in South Korea and has been based in the United States since 2010. She is currently a resident artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Choi earned her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 and her MFA in Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018. Choi has an impressive list of ceramic fellowships including The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT (2021-2023), the Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT (2019-2021), and the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN (2018). Choi presented her first solo with DIMIN titled “Yellow/ing” in 2024.