Sunhee Kim Jung 선희 김 정

BiographySunhee Kim Jung is a Korean-born American painter living and working in Maryland. She is the recipient of the AHL foundation: Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant 2019. Currently she is preparing the Mural Project in Thailand for non- profit organization that houses rescued trafficked children in 2023. Jung has been selected by the US Department of State's Art in Embassy Program for the third time. Four of her paintings have shown at the American Embassy in Rangoon, Burma in 2016-2019. After her residency at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which helped her to further develop her work, she had finished her second residency program at Tong Lau Space in Hong Kong in summer 2018. She finished the Cuttyhunk Island artist residency workshop with Suzanne Brooker in June of 2019. She has exhibited her work into numerous juried shows and solo shows internationally, nationally and regionally include the U.S., Austria, China, Costa Rica, Italy, Hong Kong, Burma, Port of Spain, Switzerland, and South Korea. Jung earned BFA in painting from Corcoran College of Art & Design, George Washington University and MF A in painting from American University, Washington DC. Jung was teaching Art courses at the Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD from 2007 to current. Jung joined the Board of directors at the Anne Arundel County Arts Council in 2016-2022 for 6 years. Now she has joined the Board of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, MD Her paintings have been featured WNA V radio, The Capital, The Gazette, The Tower Light, The Carroll County Times, Maryland Gazette, What's up? Media, Washington Woman Magazine, WKTV etc. Her vision is to always strive to expand her work into the limitless territory of modern art. 

Artist StatementI create my work to give peace and joy to one's heart. This is what I get when I paint my subjects. There are beautiful images all around us and as I identify them, I capture them and interpret them onto the canvas. Why painting? The soft gliding effect of oil brushed onto the canvas transforms me into a free spirit with limitless boundaries. In my paintings, there are several main subjects such as plants, bones, fetuses, baskets and even the image from an X-ray of my torso. I love flowers and plants. I painted a lot of tropical flowers and plants. Those exotic images take me away to an oasis. A lot of people ask me the names of the flowers and plants I paint, but in many cases, I don't know. When I paint them, the names are not important to me. The images and the feelings I get are.  I continue to experiment with colors, which express my deepest thoughts. My inspiration comes from my desire for our world to be a world of peace, where there is only beauty in everything. The Superhero babies represent hope for humanity. We are all born heroes, capable of changing and saving the world.  

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