2026-27 Artists-In-Residence

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard welcomes Kyungmin Park to its Artist In Residence Program for the 2026-27 year. Chenlu Hou, an Artist In Residence in 2025-26, will stay on for an additional year. The program runs from September 2026 through August 2027.

Kyungmin Park

Kyungmin Park is a South Korean-born ceramic artist whose work explores migration, belonging, human relationships, and shared emotional experiences across cultures and languages. After immigrating to the United States in 2006, Park began using clay as a way to communicate beyond the limitations of language, drawing from her experiences adapting to a new culture and environment. Through ceramic sculpture, her work reflects vulnerability, resilience, empathy, and connection.
Kyungmin earned her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She was named a 2016 Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and selected as a 2025 NCECA Demonstration Artist. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, and lives and works in Boston.

Chenlu Hou

Chenlu Hou’s imaginative sculptures draw inspiration from Chinese folk art, ceremonial objects, and moments from her daily life. Blending personal memories with reinterpretations of traditional storytelling, Hou creates a distinctive artistic language that weaves together sharp decorative elements and narrative suggestions. Her hand-built ceramic works explore the intricate relationships between human, animal, and plant forms, inviting viewers into layered worlds where the boundaries between myth, memory, and lived experience blur. Born in Shandong, China, Chenlu Hou is a ceramic artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and has completed residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design, Penland School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Archie Bray Foundation. She is currently a Visiting Critic in Ceramics at RISD.