So Young Park

So Young Park’s contemporary jewelry forms and theory are inspired from her thesis, Nativity and memories from her childhood. She grew up near the ocean in the southern part of South Korea. So Young used to play with sea life and plants and collected many different kinds of shells and pebbles.
Her jewelry art forms are assembled through the harmonic use of wires, tiny discs, engraved patterns, and textures forged of gold or silver, creating elegant, yet unusual visual forms. The use of the aforementioned and other small elements represent the single cells that make up all life.
So Young attended Kon-Kuk University in Seoul, South Korea. After earning a BFA and a MFA in metal and jewelry in 1999, she opened her own studio. In 2001 she decided to come to United States. She graduated with a second MFA in metal and jewelry design from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003. Currently she is running her own jewelry and metals studio called So Young Park Studio.