Minsik Joo

  1. Rodin
  2. Me, In Front of It
  3. A Research Report on Time
  4. I danced, I laughed, I cried
  5. Echo. the fleeting nature of time
  6. That Cloud
  7. One
  8. Two
  9. Breath
  10. Counting Stars
  11. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...
  12. Typologies of Bird Poop
  13. Typologies of Lifetime
  14. material experimentation*
  15. This is not minimalism
  16. Discover
  17. Look at this line here. Doesn’t even this line have its own traces?

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Bio
Born in South Korea, 1996
Currently lives and works in Rhode Island, United States 



The changes that time can bring about: aftermaths of form.

I reflect on time itself and what it might reveal. These reflections are represented through material. My practice is a process of discovery and understanding — using matter to grasp the presence of time and the traces it leaves behind.

One rainy day, I watched water dripping onto concrete and thought, “I am not that.” In that heavy, inert mass, I sensed the fact of my own aliveness. The philosopher Ernst Bloch once described this state as not-yet-being — a becoming, a life still unfolding toward what it could be. There are different kinds of “time.” I don’t know them all yet. Spending time with their silence, and what’s left behind.






Education
2026            BFA Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
2019 -20     Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, USA


Honors and Grants
2025            Partner Scholarship | Corning Museum of Glass, NY, USA
2024            Summer Exchange | Kookmin University Glass department, Seoul, South Korea
2019 -20     Good Academic Standing | Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, USA


Exhibitions
2025        Sokl Gallery | Moderní galerie AVU (The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague), Czech Republic 
2025        Composites | 226 Benefit St., RI, USA 
2025        A Floor Plan of Echoes | 49 Westfield St. Suite 2, RI, USA 

2024        RISD Glass Triennial | Woods-Gerry Gallery, RI, USA 
2024       Point A to Point B: A Triptych of Transformation | ONEsGALLERY, MA, USA 
2024       The Unspeakable State | Red Eye Gallery, RI, USA 
2024       The Dragon’s Banquet | Prov Wash, RI, USA 

2023       RISD Sophomore Sculpture Exhibition, Reflection Refraction | Prov Wash, RI, USA 
2023       RISD Sculpture Triennial, Each Thing Every One | Woods-Gerry Gallery, RI, USA

2019        FIT Selected Design Project, NY, USA 


full CV available upon request