Jane Yang-D’Haene (b. 1970, South Korea) is a New York–based artist whose practice encompasses ceramics, sculpture, painting, and drawing. Working at the intersection of material, memory, and form, she explores themes of accumulation, transformation, identity, and the passage of time. Born in South Korea, Yang-D’Haene immigrated to New York in 1984. She studied architecture at The Cooper Union before working in architecture and interior design. Her background in spatial thinking and material exploration continues to inform her artistic practice. Since turning to ceramics in 2017, Yang-D’Haene has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in traditional Korean ceramic forms while moving beyond their historical and functional associations. Her sculptural vessels, particularly her reinterpretations of the moon jar, explore the vessel as an extension of the human body—a form capable of holding memory, emotion, and experience. Through repeated gestures, incised lines, layered glazes, and expressive surfaces, she approaches clay as both a sculptural and painterly medium. Her practice has expanded to include ceramic wall works, drawings, and sculptural compositions that investigate the relationships between individual forms, surrounding space, presence, and absence. Since 2020, Yang-D’Haene has participated in more than 50 exhibitions internationally, including solo presentations in New York, Paris, Brussels and Jackson Hole. In 2026, she was shortlisted for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, further recognizing her contribution to contemporary material-based art. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Crocker Museum, Qatar Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, among other public and private collections. Across her evolving practice, Yang-D’Haene continues to explore how material can embody lived experience, creating works that move between fragility and endurance, tradition and transformation, and the physical and emotional dimensions of memory.

Recent exhibitions include: Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York, NY (May, 2026); Nilaya Anthology, Mumbai, India (2025); Galerie Pron, Paris, France (2025); In Memory of Memory, Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL (2024); Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (2024); Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2024); Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York, NY (2023); Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY (2023); Onna House, Easthampton, NY (2023); The Future Perfect, Los Angeles, CA (2023); AAPIDA & FDC, New York, NY (2023); The Future Perfect, New York, NY (2023); Alison Bradley Projects, New York, NY (2022)