11.5 x 15 x 16 in.
12 x 11 x 10 in.
Myungjin Kim was born in South Korea. She received her MFA in ceramic art at Seoul National University in 2002 after which she moved to the United States. She has taught Ceramics at Santa Ana College, Cerritos College, University of Georgia, Athens, UGA Study Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy as well as at California State University, Long Beach, California, from 2011 to 2015.
Her work is about human life stories that blend the real and surreal using figuration, animals, vessels and assorted objects. She works primarily with porcelain and most works carry drawn and painted illusionistic imagery.
Kim has been recognized for her exceptional talents with a 2016 Archie Bray Foundation fellowship and two year residency and additionally a prestigious 2017 Wingate fellowship.
“I have included many birds and assorted painted vessel forms in the tableaus that I have built for the past 3-4 years. I expanded that to include the use of different animals as well as the human figure in order to grow my ability to talk artistically about our complex human life.