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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Gweny Jin

Assistant Professor of Design and Social Practice, Annie P. Miller Endowed Professorship Columbus College of Art and DesignDesign & First-Year Experience

Bio

Gweny Jin is a trained architect, designer and maker, who is currently teaching full-time at Columbus College of Art and Design, in Columbus Ohio. She has taught full-time at Pratt Institute as a teaching fellow, and at Rhode Island School of Design while being a graduate student there.

With the support of her artistic training, professional experience, teaching practice, Jin explores drawings, painting, sculptural and installation work, all with an architectural lens, to articulate meaningful art interventions. Elevating the unique placeness of ordinary space and highlighting emotive responses to extracted architectural forms that from the daily lives have been the echoing themes in her practice of art.

Jin’s working process focuses on using mixed craft and techniques as the pidgin language of making, incorporating time as a factor, and adopting light and shadow as a designed element to interact with tangible forms.