January 22–February 28, 2027 | Opening Reception: January 21, 2027 @ 6PM
Tender Tenacity
Kye-Yeon Son
While seed heads sway gracefully with the wind, roots quietly reshape themselves beneath. One yields, the other adapts to endure; both responding to the conditions of their world, whether in salt marshes, along roadsides, or through cracks in concrete. In their contrasting forms, I see tender tenacity-a silent dialogue between movement and rootedness, vulnerability and persistence.
Artist Biography
Professor Kye-Yeon Son started teaching full time in 1995 at NSCAD University, where she contributed to the development of its current Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing Program.
As a recipient of the most prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award, a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, 2011 and LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE Finalist, 2019, Professor Son has exhibited her works in numerous solo shows and group exhibitions in public and commercial galleries across Canada, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Korea.
She has also been invited as visiting artist for lectures and workshops nationally and internationally. From earlier Wishing Vessel to recent Innatus Forma, metal artist Kye-Yeon Son will share her personal journey to find a way to visualize emotive qualities such as wishes, memory, loss, and endurance in her vessels and jewellery.