Jina Seo came to New York in 2010 from South Korea and she graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Jewelry Design in May 2015. She completed the Jewelry Design Program (2015), the Comprehensive CAD/CAM for Jewelry (2015), the Graduate Diamonds Program/GD (2013), the Colored Stones Program (2013), the Gemologist Program (2013) and the Accredited Jewelry Professional Program (2013) at the Gemological Institute of America.

Jina’s work is inspired by ordinary objects in daily life that she finds, observes and takes as her inspiration to create precious and finely crafted jewelry. Her most recent work, “Pipeworks”, is designed to transform the conventions of jewelry design and provide people with a welcome and entertaining distraction from the mundane aspects of their lives.