Mirang Wonne interprets natural forms in unexpected mediums. She uses primarily innovative materials that paradoxically amplify the organic intensity of those forms, capitalizing on their physical and optical peculiarities. In her recent screen work, Wonne “draws” on fine stainless-steel mesh using a blowtorch. By transforming an industrial material, the artist achieves results that are unpredictably subtle and intimate.

After receiving her BFA and finishing MFA courses from Seoul National University, Wonne was selected as the sole French Government Scholarship recipient for the Arts, continued her studies in France where she earned her diploma and certificate in mural painting and postgraduate studies from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and her PhD in Esthetics from Sorbonne, Universite de Paris, France. She briefly returned to Seoul where she taught at her Alma Mater, Seoul National University before coming to the US.

Mirang Wonne’s artwork has been collected and shown in private and public collections worldwide, including Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris, Le Grand Palais in Paris, Musee de Lille, France, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Pacific Heritage Museum in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, University of San Francisco School of Law, the Ritz Carlton San Francisco, the Triton Museum, the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Kaiser Permanente of Santa Clara, Sungkok Museum in Seoul, Korea and Stanford Cancer Center South Bay in San Jose, CA.

"To me, life is incredibly beautiful. In spite of our daily struggles and failures and sorrows, I still find the gift of nature to be eternally sweet.