Independent Project
Mixed Media
A room breathes like a bus. Still walls remember motion. Four gestures hold the memory of a commute: a body leans, a seat waits, a projection flickers like passing trees.
There is no engine, only breath. No schedule, only pause.The floor carries the weight of shared silence. The corners hold the quiet choreography of strangers navigating space. This is not a bus, but it becomes one through repetition, suggestion, and the memory of movement.
Space is not given. It is shaped, felt, and performed.
Brown University Alumnae Hall
A floor becomes a score. Steps land in silence and echo. Light shifts, then halts. This is not a backdrop, but a collaborator. Space listens, responds, and disappears. Built for a performance where music breathes and bodies move, the design carries the rhythm of transition. Shapes hold mood. Angles catch voices. The stage is not static. It is waiting, pulsing, revealing in fragments.
It frames, but it does not contain. It gives the performance its air
Collaborative project
The set design centers on Jon, the protagonist, and his escalating anxiety about achieving success as a musical composer in 1990s New York City. Departing from the original production, the design incorporates boxes as a symbolic element, representing the characters' perpetual readiness and fragility in their pursuit of success. These boxes, continuously packed and unpacked, reflect the transient nature of their aspirations, dynamically interacting with the characters' movements. Positioned against Times Square-inspired cityscape, the design captures ambition's relentless drive and tension within an ever-changing urban environment.
WON HWANG
Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Furniture Design
Concentration in Theory and History of Art and Design
CV and resume available upon request.
Object 001_Self portrait ( 37"x 29" x 22" )
Object 002_Pull (12”x 12x 25”)
Object 003_Push (13” x 28”x 10”)
Object 004_Hold (18”x 32”x 5”)
Metal, Natural Leather, Plywood
All to Whisper Your Presence examines the silent language of creases, tracing movements and memories within a transient diaspora. These marks, etched by connection, transform the subject from noun to verb, preserving the quiet echoes of the past and potential futures. Objects like Self Portrait, Pull, Push, and Hold embody this choreography of presence, where creases carry the weight of time, memory, and human connection.
Sheet metal, various electronics
40" x 53" x 6"
Gimme Gimme examines the quiet violence of convenience. A single plug, inserted without resistance, accesses vast systems of energy, labor, and extraction. A white multioutlet cord stretches across the floor—familiar yet obstructive—mirroring our dependence on invisible infrastructures. The work reframes a simple gesture as a site of global entanglement, where power flows easily to the user but is sustained by distant, unseen complexity. It questions what is demanded, what is consumed, and what remains when we unplug.
Poplar wood, Metallic spray paint, Threaded metal, Glazed with epoxy
5" x 30"x 15"
Push pin- count 1 in silver is a piece that investigates how the scale of an object can pursue reimagination of bodily interaction with ordinary objects: push pin. Reflecting on the observation from students’ uses of pushpin in the studio space, this work recreates the means of “pinning” by taking the objects into different spatial contexts.
Maple Venner, Cotton Chords, Dowels
12” x 15” x 30"
In the quiet realm of hair, where strands intertwine and stories unfold, there exists a voyage of growth, an ethereal sailing through the in-between. It is within these hidden fibers that whispers are carried, whispers that speak of self-discovery and transformation. Hair growth is a manifestation of the self expanding and evolving. Each tiny sprout that emerges from the scalp carries with it a message.
Cement, foam, metal beads, wire, glass
14" x 49" x 14"
Dear Dandelion, explores resilience through the metaphor of a weed often overlooked. Drawing from botanical research and diasporic narratives, the sculptural lamp casts a warm light beneath a concrete shell, echoing the hidden strength of roots that thrive under pressure. Beadwork weaves across the surface like migratory paths, tracing connections between natural adaptation and human endurance. Merging research with material tension, the work becomes a quiet tribute to persistence, illuminating what survives within constraint.