About the Artist
Sung Hee KIM is a mother of 4 children and a dog, who started her art career to make herself and people around the world happy. To do so, she tries to understand agony and joy for them to be reinterpreted through nature. Trees, flowers, birds, and boats are the biggest inspiration to her works as well as a comfortable chair that always suggests a place to think.
Sung Hee KIM’s childhood living in three different countries; South Korea, Japan, and the U.K., affected her artworks. Her love of nature and the spirit of harmony in her artworks are from her experience of traveling around these countries. Her international childhood also made her more open-minded in her approaches. She uses various materials in mixture from pastels, pens, crayons, acrylic paints, and watercolours to unique tools like cotton buds and toothpicks.
Adapting new technologies is as important as experimenting with diverse methods. Sung Hee KIM’s drawings are digitally transformed to be explored in another dimension. Her digital artworks are available in Giclée prints on paper or acrylic prints. She also adds a final touch with acrylic paints and powders for her digital paintings which are printed on different surfaces such as archival papers, canvas, carpet, linen, and more.
To reach a broad audience, Sung Hee KIM is also open to licensing and collaborations. Her works have been featured as book covers for two publications: <The Forest Where Jijisae Lives (Jang Jin-young, Minumsa, 2023)> and <Culture and Cultural Industry (Kim Si-Bum, Ilchokak, 2023)>. Her collaboration with Bluebell Group for the 2023 calendar also had great feedback from various designer brands in the world. Bluebell Korea produced a calendar featuring 13 of her artworks. Calendars were gifted to 100+ global luxury, premium, and lifestyle brands distributed by Bluebell Korea. She also has been selling various art goods including art bags, blankets, beach robes, phone cases, notebooks, and pouches at her exhibitions and online. In addition, she has licensed six artworks to an art company in Shanghai, China. The resulting art posters were sold at 10 shops across Nanjing and Shanghai for two years, beginning in January 2021.
Sung Hee KIM’s artworks make herself happy. She very much hopes you could find your own light of happiness through her artworks.
Let us make the world a better place with Arts!
Press
CCTV, Aug 2019, China
SBS Evening News, June 2022, USA
Exhibitions & Art Fairs
2026
<Step Above by KIM SUNG HEE>, Solo Exhibition (Invitational), Jinhyunjae, Seoul, South Korea
STO -based Korea Museum of Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Group Exhibition (Invitational)
: Woo Je-gil Museum (Gwangju), Geumbosung Gallery (Seoul), Hamyang Cultural Center (Hamyang), Sacheon Cultural Arts Center (Sacheon), South Korea
2025
Identity, Group Exhibition, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
STO -based Korea Museum of Contemporary Art Touring Exhibition, Group Exhibition (Invitational)
: Yeosu Museum of Art (Yeosu), Mireumaru Gallery (Goheung), Jeongeup Living Culture Center (Jeongeup), Pinodia Art Gallery (Sokcho),
Mungyeong Cultural Arts Center (Mungyeong), Naju Museum of Art (Naju), Naeseolak Baekgong Museum (Inje), South Korea
9th International Recycling Story – Contemporary Capriccio, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Bongpyeong Kotdeung Museum, Bongpyeong, South Korea
Yugyeong Museum 219th Invitational Exhibition, Solo Exhibition (Invitational), Yugyeong Museum, Geoje, South Korea
Tongyeong Chungryeol Girls' Middle School Open Edition Prints 4 prints donated, Tongyeong, South Korea
Unknown Vibe, Art Fair (Invitational), Seoul Dragon City Novotel Suites Hotel, Seoul, South Korea
2024
Seoul Art Show, Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
Seoul Art Show Preview Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Gallery Sai, Seoul, South Korea
Classic, Drawn in Pictures [Schubert: Winterreise] Part 2, 3Exhibition, Gallery Sai, Seoul, South Korea
Innerself, 3Exhibition (Invitational), Mui Art Museum, Pyeongchang, South Korea
Printing Wall Beeum 2024, Group Exhibition, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2023
Korean Art London, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Mall Galleries, London, UK
International Blue Artfair 2023, Art Fair (Invitational), The Westin Josun Busan, Busan, South Korea
World Art Expo, Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
Conflict and Reconciliation, 3D Virtual Solo Exhibition (Invitational), Online
2022
Heyground Group Exhibition, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Heyground, Seoul, South Korea
SEOUL CLUB x GALLERY BAKYOUNG 2nd Exhibition, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Seoul Club, Seoul, South Korea
Superfine! NYC 2022, Art Fair, The Market Line, New York, USA
FOCUS PARIS BOOM, Art Fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Bank Art Fair 2022, Art Fair, Intercontinental Seoul COEX, Seoul, South Korea
11th Busan Annual Market of Art, Art Fair, BEXCO, Busan, South Korea
50th Asia Invitation Art Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Korea Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Korea Butterfly Effect, Group Exhibition, About Project Lounge, Seoul, South Korea
Shinsegae International's special exhibition at S.I.Village, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Online
LA Art Show 2022, Art Fair, LA Convention Center, LA, USA
LA Modern Art Exhibition, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Shatto Gallery, LA, USA
Purple & Yellow, Group Exhibition (Invitational), Yeosu Art Land, Yeosu, South Korea
New Face Artist Exhibition,Group Exhibition, LeeSoo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2021
44th Korea Culture Art Exhibition, Winners' Exhibition, Lamer Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Free Market, Group Exhibition, Yeosu Art Land, Yeosu, South Korea
Sight, Group Exhibition, Gallery Western, LA, USA
2020
Superfine! NYCx3 (wo)man 2020 E-fair, Art Fair, Online
Colours of Happiness, 3D Virtual Solo Exhibition, Online
2019
I chose to be happy, Solo Exhibition (Selected), KT&G Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea