I work within the context of pottery to exploit its universal familiarity and impose my own vision for merging historically and culturally disparate influences. I am curious about the relationships I see among various forms of creative expression both past and present, and try to bring forth a new language of pottery for the future.
—Sam Chung
Sam Chung is a Korean-American ceramic artist living in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and a BA from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He taught at Northern Michigan University from 1998-2007, and has been a Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University since 2007. He was awarded a US Fulbright Scholar grant in South Korea in 2021-22.
Sam has exhibited his work nationally and internationally with major exhibitions at Harvey Preston, Duane Reed, Tansey Contemporary, and Greenwich House Pottery in the US, as well as Soluna Living (Korea) and Ann Linnemann Gallery (Denmark). Sam's work is included in the collections of The Everson Museum (NY), Crocker Art Museum (CA) and Icheon World Ceramic Center (Korea). He has also presented numerous lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally.