EVON WANG

Born in 1990, Evon Wang graduated from the Department of Industrial Design of Shih Chien University, and earned her Master's degree from the program of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works in Tama Art University in Japan. Evon specializes in making ceramic sculpture and utensils for professional tea ceremony. She learned from the master of Urasenke Konnichian, the traditional Japanese way of matcha tea. She also practices and designs events for Taiwanese tea ceremony combining the style of chanoyu based on the wabi-sabi aesthetic. Evon has participated in the Asian Ceramic Art Exhibition for many times in different cities around the world.

In 2016, Evon started the project named "Ceramic Portrait " in Tokyo. She interviewed a number of female store owners. She used clay as a material to capture the sense of image while taking to them. The series of ceramic sculpture show the character of the person with abstract form and dedicated texture. These ceramic portraits are the symbol of something in between (あいだ) during their conversation more than the appearance of the person. Through her creations, Evon connected with the local people. She also documented the project by taking films and writing stories for columns of Cacao Mag.

In 2022,  Evon was invited by the Cultural Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government to create works for Creative Expo Taiwan 2023. In order to know the “Hamasen” area of Kaohsiung City, She first conducted fieldwork like an anthropologist, interviewing with different local people in the temples, clinics, barber shops…etc. The more she discovers, the more she admires the working class women in the 80s, who silently but truly supported the development of the pelagic fishery industry. The series of work named “ BORO ” is dedicated to a nurse who had cut thousands of appendix for sailors in that most prosperous time. Through the labor of making clay, Evon has experienced the somatosensory of those great women behind the men. After firing innumerable quantities of “ceramic appendix”, and experiencing the difficulty  of assembling fragile pieces, she presents the work as an evocation, telling the rise and fall of the city.

EDUCATION

  2015-2018 Master / Department of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works, Tama Art University

  2008-2012 Bachelor / Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University

WORK

  2012-2013 Product designer / XD Automotive & Industrial design 

  2014 Assistent / Wei-cheng Wu Studio

  2015 Translator / Tokyo Design week

  2018 Teacher / Department of Industrial Design, Asia University

  2018 Assistent / Yingge Ceramics Museum

  2018 - Founder / Evon Wang Ceramics