Sophie K. Yoon is a first generation Korean-American ceramic artist from Queens, NY. She received her BA in art education with a studio art concentration in ceramics from CUNY Queen College. Subsequently she has taught art within the NYC public school system and has assisted workshops in ceramics at numerous studios in the metropolitan area. She has been employed as a ceramics technician, studio manager, and production potter at several studios throughout New York and Long Island.

As an artist, Sophie K Yoon sees herself as working within her Korean artistic heritage while bridging the sensibilities and influence of the American experience. For her, this represents an articulated aesthetic composed of two distinct cultures—the historic norms of one and the contemporary of the other. Her passion is in alternative atmospheric firings, particularly wood firings. She seeks to find focus in a body of work which reflects and exemplifies her fascination with wood kilns and the aesthetic which resonates with her cultural and creative identity. In her work, she seeks to embody the duality between exercising control over the media and then welcoming the elements of chance that come into play in the process of altering the forms. Experimenting with the dichotomy of control and chaos—like the halves that render whole a moon jar—the forms she creates aspire to the essence of elegance and tradition while allowing for the fire to apply serendipitous moments to the surface—the act of relinquishing control. Creating a canvas to accommodate the interaction of clay and fire, her forms, whether altered or perfectly smooth, invoke the autonomy of the flame.