About Ennis & Han Coat

Ennis (“like tennis”) is a Korean-Canadian process artist exploring themes of duality, identity and time. Her style is balanced, highly conceptual and accentuated with hints of academia. She experiments with as many mediums as possible from physical to digital. Some personal favorites include comedy via digital architecture, participatory sculptures and a method acting series with abstract film and original soundtrack. Ennis enjoys discovering boundaries then defying them, making it intentionally difficult to categorize her as any one thing except sui generis.

Ennis started with classical violin at age 4 then transitioned to photography in her teens. After art directing a lifestyle magazine, she pursued a BFA in graphic design from SCAD. Ennis has developed beside a full gamut of founders from WEB2 to WEB3, B2B, D2C, small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, for-profits and non-profits. 15+ years of building brands has allowed her to live in cities like Hong Kong, Atlanta, New York, and Seattle. Up to 2020, publications of her works were split between client scopes such as international makeup campaigns and her first major personal series, Realest (an independent photo-ethnographic thesis on American Hip-Hop & Black Culture).

Post-pandemic, Ennis is stepping into process art full-time but happily carries over learnings from her brand architecture practice to influence methodologies and storylines. She is currently based in Toronto working on Han Coat–unisex paintings that ask, “How does fashion influence behavior and vice versa?” The pattern is reminiscent of a boxer robe because Ennis branded several boxing companies (Rumble USA, Punch Paris, etc.) and fell in love with the style. She designed several robes but they ended up sitting idle on a shelf. Many moons later, those robes were impregnated with her Korean DNA (insert hanbok 한복 + 요술장갑 magic socks) and evolved into the concept Han Coat you see today.