Hi, I’m Korynn—
I am an interdisciplinary artist and professional architect. Holding a Master of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and working in sustainable architecture and construction, I bring an architectural lens to questions of environmental change and material agency. Through drawing, sculpture, and installation, I investigate how materials behave and transform in environments over time.
How I Approach Work
My studio practice extends architectural thinking beyond the building. Working across sculpture, charcoal drawing, film, and installation, I explore how materials change over time and how the built environment is shaped by the forces around it. Using common construction materials, I create imagined moments where nature begins to merge with, reclaim, and transform what humans have built.
With a background in architecture and sustainability, I am interested in our desire to build things that last, despite knowing that nothing is permanent. I imagine a future where roots fracture concrete, moss overtakes buildings, and the structures we create become small remnants within a much larger landscape. I see the Earth continuing beyond the systems humans have built, but I also recognize that a thriving Earth does not necessarily mean a livable world for us.
Art is a survival mechanism for me. It is how I work through the uncertainty of a future I cannot control and make sense of what I believe may come. Through small, tangible moments of transformation, I explore the possibility of nature outlasting human civilization. My work holds both the destruction of what we have built and the relief of imagining what might exist beyond it. I don't make work to offer solutions or predict the future. I make it to understand our place within it, and to find some peace with the impermanence of the world we have created.
Curriculum Vitae
Past work and exhibits
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2026 SURVEY
Yellowbird Café & Gallery
A group exhibition showcasing Holland Arts Creators2025 Calcified Bloom
Yellowbird Café & Gallery
Photographic study of calcium-based sculptural forms2022 indiscernible elements: Calcium
Habits
Book and artwork debut2020 SAIC Graduate Showcase
“indiscernible elements”
Featured thesis project at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago -
2025 Design in 7 - University of Minnesota
Presenter
View videoNew York Time Square
indscernbile elements: Calcium
NasdaqDPA Pre - Golden Globes Gfiting Suite (2024)
Read on FlauntTwin Cities Book Festival - Presenter (2023)
Rain Taxi Review Magazine (Fall 2023, Vol. 28 No. 3)
Artwork used on the front cover