About
Bing Kiln is a ceramic and sculptural practice by Philadelphia-based artist Bing Paris.
Before turning to clay, Bing worked in corporate America as a consultant, partnering with multinational clients across industries. Although the work was intellectually rewarding, it led her to realize that making—not advising—was where her attention kept returning.
In early 2025, she began exploring ceramics as both material and language.
Long before clay, Bing published two books in Mandarin during her teenage years—a novel and a collection of philosophical essays. Literature and art have remained enduring forms of inquiry and refuge throughout her life.
Alongside functional and sculptural works, Bing creates objects and small interventions intended to slow people down, awaken attention, and invite moments of reflection in an increasingly accelerated world.
Her practice sits somewhere between object, memory, ritual, and conversation.
Artist Statement
My work is shaped by travel, late-night thoughts, cultural inheritance, and the tensions and contradictions I have encountered throughout life. Working with clay allows me to examine what it means to hold imperfection—to see fracture and softness, beauty and discomfort, light and darkness existing together.
I am drawn toward forms that are irregular, intuitive, and occasionally unresolved. Rather than imposing complete control, I allow the material to participate in decision-making; the final form often reveals itself through the process.
My practice centers primarily on handbuilding, with occasional use of wheel throwing and slip casting. Each method is selected—or combined—according to what the piece asks to become. I believe small encounters with objects can alter the way we think: a flower on a table, a stone in a pocket, something held quietly in the hand.
As you experience my work, I hope it creates space—not necessarily for comfort, but for attention.
Peace, conflict, curiosity, memory, discomfort, wonder. Any feeling that reminds you that you are alive.