Bio
Sun Young Park was born in Masan, Korea. She is currently working and living in Kansas City. Park explores the space between imagination and reality. The use of diverse materials represents her visual language as she explores contrasting surfaces, emphasizing ceramics and mixed media. Park earned her BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) from Hong-Ik University Seoul, Korea. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Park was the resident artist at Clayarch Gimhae Museum in the Ceramic Creative Center (2017). She recently obtained her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2021). She has participated in Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, Jingdezhen, China, 7° Salon international art résilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, France and Currently participated in Women to Watch exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She is a resident artist at Belger Arts Center and Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO.
Website: park-sunyoung.com
