RISD GLASS

RISD Glass Celebrates our 2026 graduating cohort.

Through deep disciplinary inquiry RISD Glass students develop an individualized studio practice reflecting their unique perspective.

Meet Minsik Joo, ‘26 RISD Glass BFA 

Minsik Joo (1996 Seoul, Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor whose practice centers on the elusive nature of time and the traces it leaves behind. Working across glass, wood, metal, plaster, cement, and his body, Joo investigates how materials hold, distort, and release temporal residues. His work emerges from an impulse to understand the world more deeply through witnessing—observing, photographing, sculpting, experimenting, and performing. For Joo, time is not singular but layered—composed of what has been, what has slipped away, what is still approaching, and what flickers within the present moment.

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My Cubes
video, 1hr 12min
a record of counting cubes made over two and a half years

untitled
A record of bodily movement applying soot on glass

Map of Time
mixed media
75” x 16”

RISD Glass Celebrates our 2026 graduating cohort.

Through deep disciplinary inquiry RISD Glass students develop an individualized studio practice reflecting their unique perspective.

Meet Peiran Li, ‘26 RISD Glass BFA 

Peiran is a double major in Glass and Industrial Design. Her work centers around exploring systems of ritual, biology, and devotion, adopting their language to thread together her own ecosystems of balance and fragility. The proposal of parallel evolutions and hypothetical mythologies reveal the systems she has been building to navigate a state of perpetual confusion. Materiality is important in her practice, as utilizing the sense of history and placement (or displacement) of a medium in time can allow for the suspension of context or creation of new timelines.

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Glass, alabaster, Arduino, motors, red wiring, red and green tape, black grit
48”x48”x8”

Tanned Hide
Glass, wire, jump rings
48”x30”x0.2”

Reaching Ancestor Status
Alabaster, red thread, black slate
1”x1.5”x125”