Seo earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kookmin University at Seoul, South Korea in 2012. She was a recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University 2016-2017. She was chosen as one of the SNAG Emerging Artists 2016 at SOFA Chicago and received a Gold Award for the ITAMI International Craft Exhibition in 2010. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Munich Jewellery Week 2017; Germany, Craft Council of British Columbia Gallery; Vancouver, Canada, Brooklyn Metal works, Brooklyn, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Sung-Gock Gallery, Seoul, Korea, and (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.