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Sunhee Kim Jung
Sunhee Kim Jung

Artist Sunhee Kim Jung is a Korean-born American painter. She lives in Maryland and works as an artist in DC. She is the recipient of the AHL foundation: Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant 2019. She accomplished the Mural Project in Thailand for non- profit organization that houses rescued trafficked children on March 2023. Jung has been selected by the US Department of State's Art in Embassy Program for the third time. Her paintings have shown at the American Embassy in Rangoon, Burma in 2016-2019. 2006-2008, and the American Embassy in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 2010-2012.

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 had her 17th Invitational solo exhibition at the Arundel Center, Annapolis MD from March to June 2023 and She had her 18th Invitational solo exhibition at Gye Hang Museum by sponsored Gosong Cultural Foundation in Incheon Korea from July to August 2023.

Her painting got selected to exhibit at Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs in Korea permanently.

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 MFA 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 and she got appointed to serve as a Board of director at Han-Mee Artist Association of Greater Washington area for 2024-2026.

Her paintings have been featured WNAV radio, The Capital, The Gazette, The Tower Light, The Carroll County Times, Maryland Gazette, What's up? Media, Washington Woman Magazine, WKTV, A radio the Alleyways of Cho Hwa-Hyun in Incheon Korea. etc.

Her vision is to always strive to expand her work into the limitless territory of modern art.







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