World Masters
Creating One World through Arts & Culture
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Han Ki-ok
  • Field Art Departments / Buncheong Celadon (Grayish-blue-powdered Celadon)
  • CountryKorea

 

 

A Buncheong Celadon master whose family has continued a prestigious tradition in pottery for five generations, adding a modern touch to traditional pottery techniques to create a new ceramic culture by fusing tradition and modernity

 

 

 

1. 1st Generation, Han Young-seok (Royal potter of the late Joseon Dynasty)

   2nd Generation, Han Chi-su (Gwangju Bunwon potter of Joseon Dynasty)

   3rd Generation, Han Sang-jun (Gwangju Bunwon potter)

   4th Generation Han Chang-mun, (Gwangju Bunwon potter)

  5th Generation, Han Ki-ok (current Gwangju Bunwon potter)

2. Chairman of the Ceramics Division of Korean Association of Art and Artists

3. Created pottery for President Kim Dae-jung and Mrs. Lee Hwi-ho bearing their signatures

4.  Invited artist of the Korea Culture and Arts Association and chairman of the Ceramic Art Section of Korea Culture and Arts Association

5.  Exhibition by three Successors of keeping alive the Buncheong (Kyungin Art Museum 2020)

6.  Americas Excellence Award of Americas Arts and Culture Association (2021)

7. Mayor of Seoul Special Award at the 17th Korean Art & Culture Master Competition (2022)