Sydney Hyunah Oh (b. 1987) is a New York City-based ceramic artist whose practice centers on woodfiring, an intensive, multi-day method shaped by flame, ash, and air. She works primarily in large-scale vessels, fired in an oreum-gama (noborigama): a traditional multi-chambered climbing kiln first innovated by Korean potters and later renamed in Japan following the forced relocation of artisans during the Imjin Wars (1592–1598). For Sydney, reclaiming this lineage is both personal and political, a quiet resistance against the erasure of Korean ceramic history and a counterbalance to the speed of digital culture.

Each firing spans several days of continuous labor and round-the-clock stoking. The atmosphere inside the kiln shifts constantly, depositing ash, encouraging flashing and carbon trapping, and producing surfaces that can never be replicated. Unpredictability is not incidental to her process; it is central to it.

Sydney first shared her ceramics as the founder of Milk and Clay. Her work has been featured in T Magazine, Cereal, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Business of Fashion, Glamour, and more.