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 Jae Hi Ahn' work centers on community well-being including the relationship

between human and nature, and the connection between different cultures and

different races in the community. She examines the relationship between her Korean

Cultural background and the community's natural & multicultural surroundings by

re-imagining & interconnecting cultural objects, memories, daily life, & Nature in

order to bring the awareness of social inequity, sustainability, and Hope.

 

 Home series explores Community Well-Being through her Korean Cultural background

and also her community's Natural & Multicultural surroundings. Home incorporates

porcelain ceramic sculptures and photography. Home was initiated with the story,

"The Condolence Letter", that Ahn's 16th century ancestor wrote to his late wife who

passed due to complications with postpartum. During Covid-19 pandemic, racial and

ethnic minority groups reported experiences of Covid-related discrimination in the

community. Ahn wants to dedicate her project to people around community who

have been suffering through the loss of loved ones, Anti-Asian racism, gender

inequalities of minority women, and more.

 

Home Series, Women & Nature, includes the images of Hwagwan: Crown for

Female's wedding, incense burner, Daenggi: A traditional ribbon for a girl's braided

hair, cups, rice bowl, & flowers from her community/memory. These images are

interconnected to each other through women's breast milk ducts, umbilical cord, &

braided hair. The umbilical cord serves as a vital lifeline, providing oxygen, nutrients,

and removing waste products from the fetus. Breast milk ducts function to transport

breast milk acting as network of tubes that carry the milk to feed the baby.

Women's braided hair symbolizes cultural heritage, identity, community, and

connection to ancestral roots. Korean women's braided hair changes after they get

married.

 

Ahn hopes to connect human and nature, and different cultures and different races

together across the community in NYC.

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 Jae Hi Ahn is a Korean born, New York based artist. Her art practice explores

multidisciplinary arts including installation, sculpture, ceramic, photography, and

watercolor painting. Ahn examines the relationship between her Korean Cultural

background and the community's Natural & Multicultural surroundings by

re-imagining & interconnecting Cultural objects, memories, daily life, & Nature in

order to bring the awareness of social inequity, sustainability, and Hope.

Ahn’s work has been presented widely in New York at venues that include Sunroom

Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx; Chashama, NYC; White Columns Online, NYC;

Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery at Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Broadway Windows at

New York University; The Field Sculpture Park at Art Omi, Ghent; Elizabeth

Foundation for the Arts, NYC; LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island; Stone Quarry

Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, and Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC.

She has been awarded grants from Queens Arts Fund (NYFA/DCLA), The Puffin

Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant (NYCDCA), Urban Artist

Initiative Fellowship, NYC, and has participated in various residencies at LMCC Swing

Space, NYC; Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL; I-Park, East Haddam,

CT; VCCA, Amherst, VA; Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA; and Sculpture Space

Residency, Utica, NY.

Her work is currently included for the Curated Artist Registry at White Columns and

she's a participant of NYFA's 2025 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, NYC. Her

work has been featured in The New York Times, The L Magazine, The Brooklyn

Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, The Artist of the Month at Bric Rotunda Gallery and

Untapped New York.

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Ahn's website