Shannon Koszyk is an artist and maker whose work is rooted in a lifelong fascination with objects, materials, history, and making.

She founded her jewelry practice in 2007 after studying Fashion Marketing at FIDM San Francisco and Theatre at Seattle University. Over the years, her practice has moved between jewelry, interiors, and objects, with her work ranging from custom jewelry collections to runway collaborations and sculptural installations.

Today, Koszyk’s focus is jewelry—sculptural pieces made in sterling silver, bronze, and 14k gold. Her work draws from architecture, artifacts, archaeology, and the character of materials, with an emphasis on strong form, tactile surfaces, and the sense of history that develops through wear.

That fascination started when she was a child. She would take a hammer into the backyard, convinced that fossils and artifacts were locked inside the rocks.

She has been looking for them ever since. A newly cast object can be beautiful. But an object that has been carried, worn, handled, buried, lost, and eventually found again carries something else: evidence of a life.

That is what interests her.

Koszyk works with historical and found elements alongside objects she carves, casts, alters, and makes herself. Some pieces begin with an existing artifact; others begin entirely in her studio. The goal is the same—to create contemporary jewelry that feels as though it could have been unearthed.