Jeannie Rhyu
Bio: Jeannie Rhyu is a Korean-Canadian artist, based in Queens, New York, whose interdisciplinary practice includes painting, printmaking, ceramic sculpture, and installation. Rhyu’s work has been exhibited internationally in shows in New York, New Bedford, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. Selected exhibitions include shows at New Bedford Art Museum, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Harper’s Gallery, and Spring/Break Art Show. She has given talks and workshops at Columbia University, 92NY, Kingsland Wildflowers, and other community organizations. She received a B.A. from Columbia University in Architecture and Visual Arts. When she isn’t making art, she works as a fellow at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Jeannie Rhyu’s interdisciplinary practice spans across painting, printmaking, ceramic sculpture, and installation. Rhyu traces the roots of her emotional impressions by deconstructing and reimagining her cultural visual traditions, excavating the structural remnants of collective memory. Her works focus on the displacement and dislocation of collected images and how they become distorted and transformed through translation and across generations, placing her within a long lineage of Korean modern artists of the 20th and 21st century who have embraced new movements like impressionism and surrealism while incorporating their individual experiences. The parallel global history of maritime culture and migrant experience inform Rhyu’s exploration of humanity’s place within the natural world. Throughout her body of work, images of the fathomless ocean, migrating birds, intrepid seafarers, and the night sky resonate with generational wisdom that transcends borders. At the same time, she confronts a sense of grief and loss on a personal and universal scale, as the history of human exploration also provides a record of extinction and cultural misapprehension. From the deep primordial waters of generational wisdom, ancestral stories, and personal recollections, Rhyu’s emotional reality emerges, where she bridges the gaps between different cultural understandings through imagination and mythopoesis.
Jeannie Rhyu
Flying Harpy, 2026
Glazed porcelain
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Brothers Island, 2026
Oil on linen
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Daughter of Poseidon, 2026
Site-specific installation; glazed
porcelain and stoneware
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The Consortium, 2026
Oil on linen
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Under Wing, 2026
Oil on linen
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Bleed Blue, 2026
Glazed stoneware, glass, and sand
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Hermit Crab (Found), 2025
Glazed porcelain
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Shell Island, 2025
Glazed porcelain, glass, candles, cyanotype on fabric, metal, and enamel
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Saturn (Found), 2025
Glazed porcelain
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One Fish, One Prayer, 2024
Glazed porcelain and candle
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Moon (Found), 2025
Glazed stoneware
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Whale’s Dream, 2025
Glazed stoneware
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Little Star (Found), 2025
Glazed porcelain
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Mother Ship, 2026
Glazed stoneware, glass, metal rod, collected hanbok scraps from communities in Flushing, Fort Lee and Korea, cyanotype on cotton, natural indigo dyed fabric
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Coral Towers, 2025
Glazed porcelain
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The Beachcomber, 2026
Glazed porcelain
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Skull, 2026
Glazed stoneware and wood
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Slumber, 2024
Glazed porcelain
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Twin Sisters, 2026
Glazed porcelain
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Harpy, 2025
Glazed porcelain
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Three Realms, 2026
Oil on linen
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First Year Exhibition
Jeannie Rhyu
Cetus, 2025
Oil on linen
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Banked Wishes, 2025
Glazed porcelain and sand
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