Sunhee Kim Jung

Sunhee Kim Jung is a Korean-born visual artist whose practice explores memory, nature, and color through painting. Drawing on recollections of childhood landscapes, she creates works of plants, landscapes, and text-based imagery that combine visual elements with letters and poetry to express layered personal narratives. Her work is strongly informed by color theory, developed through 18 years of teaching at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland, where she studied brightness, saturation, and color relationships in depth. She has recently expanded her materials to include Korean paper, adding new texture and dimension to her paintings.

She received her BFA and MFA in Painting from American University after studying at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Kim Jung has presented over twenty solo exhibitions and participated in international group shows, including the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program in Burma and Trinidad. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Queens Museum (New York), Katzen Art Center (Washington, DC), and the Costa Rica National Museum of Art. She is the recipient of the AHL Foundation Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant (2019), has completed residencies in the U.S. and abroad, and is included in public and private collections internationally, including the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (Korea) and the US-Korea Foundation (Washington, DC).