April Eunjoo Oh is a Korean-American artist and designer based in Los Angeles, originally born in Seoul, South Korea. With a background in fashion design and contemporary jewelry, her practice spans fine jewelry, wearable art, and a wide range of experimental objets. Her work is deeply rooted in personal memory, emotional landscapes, and the quiet tension between harmony and conflict.
Educated at FIDM (USA) and Bunka Fashion College (Japan), April refined her understanding of form and silhouette before expanding into fine jewelry and metal art through advanced studies at Calstone College (USA) and Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence (Italy). Across disciplines, she remains drawn to textile-based techniques, often combining them with precious metals, pigments, and paper to create tactile, narrative-rich pieces.
At the heart of her work lies the exploration of human nature—the dynamics of inner struggle, balance, and transformation. She describes her practice as “a simple expression of complex thoughts,” a meditative process shaped by repetition, memory, and time. Her pieces are not only objects but vessels of reflection, infused with movement and silence, delicacy and strength.
Education
2020 BFA, Contemporary Jewellery-Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School/ Firenze, Italy
2017 Graduate Jeweler/ Metal Art/ Wax Carving-Calstone College/ Los Angeles, USA
1997 Intensive Garment Creation-Bunka Fashion College/ Tokyo, Japan
1996 Japanese Language-Bunka Institute of Language/ Tokyo, Japan
1993 Fashion Design- Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising/ Los Angeles, USA
Workshop Attend
2025 Knotless Knitting with Annette Heully, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Electroforming with Luca Tripaldi, Firenze, Italy
2023 Sculptural Basketry: Knotless Netting with Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Metallic weaving and wire textile jewelry workshop with Giovanna Canu, Firenze, Italy
Ancient Japanese Alloys by Kimiaki Kageyama, Firenze, Italy
2018 Exploring pigments and gold leaf surfaces on metal with Lucia Massei, Firenze, Italy
Exhibition
2023 Alchimia’s 25th anniversary Exhibition, Grassimesse, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Atemporal An Off Joya Exhibition, Nomon, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Alchimia Contemporary Jewellry School BFA Graduation Presentation, Firenze, Italy
2019 Alchimia Contemporary Jewellry School BFA1 1X1 Group Show, Firenze, Italy