Chloe Park (b. 1986) is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in clay. She is known for her layered, meticulously constructed ceramic works that function as compressed autobiographies—each surface translating lived experience, emotional memory, and dialogue into glaze and form. Park draws from a personal archive developed over time, treating her own human experience and historical references as equal source material with surfaces that carry the emotional weight of painting while remaining grounded in the ancient, universal language of sculptural forms.
Surrealist in philosophy, Park works from an expanded understanding of reality in which unconscious impulses, dream logic, and non-linear time are given equal footing with observable experience. She is drawn to gestures that bend the rules of perception and language: instruction-like propositions, poetic paradox, and the destabilization of the relationship between image and text become touchstones for how she thinks about what a ceramic surface can propose, conceal, or contradict. Rather than depicting surreal imagery directly, she builds conditions for the intuitive to surface through process; chance, repetition, and the layering and erasure of marks become ways of accessing the subconscious, allowing her work to operate as containers for psychic residue as much as for physical space.
Her visual lineage is painterly and deliberately unconventional. In dialogue with Abstract Expressionism and its descendants, Park engages artists for whom surface, mark, and color are not decorative but urgently felt, expanding the possibilities of what ceramic surfaces can hold and how deeply they can communicate. Her work traces the undercurrents of systems of value, sociology, and human connection, revealing the interconnected threads of life. Committed to a practice of unveiling, she makes visible the hidden, nuanced, and often unspoken forces that shape the environments we inhabit, holding a constant tension between presence and absence—between what is built up and what is left exposed, what is remembered and what is transformed.
Her process is accumulative and patient; memories may be held and revisited over years. Classically trained in floral design within the Ikenobo lineage of Ikebana in Kyoto, she brings a rigorous sensitivity to negative space, transience, and natural material. A practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Amazonian Indigenous traditions for over two decades, these disciplines form the foundation of both her method and intent, informing her interest in expanded states of awareness and the porous boundary between inner and outer worlds. Her work reflects an ongoing engagement with structures of authority and social norms, alongside a deep attunement to instinctual and subconscious currents.
Before focusing on her studio practice, Park spent over a decade working as an Art Director, Creative Director, and Set Designer across the fashion, music, and entertainment industries. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Vogue US, Vanity Fair UK, House & Garden, The World of Interiors, and Galerie Magazine. She has exhibited at Salone del Mobile in Milan and participated as an Artist In Residency at La Meridiana in Tuscany.
