Hyeonyoung Kim(b.1995) is a South Korean artist based in Seoul.
Her recent works in ceramics explore the coincidence, inevitability, and love that happen in life.
She translates and visualizes events by substituting accidental events that happen in life into the materiality of clays.
She explains her works in a sentence below,
“I wish to give their own volition to clays.”
In 2021, She completed her studies in the Graduate Program of Ceramics at Seoul National University of Science and Technology,
having previously earned her Bachelor’s degree at the same institution in 2019.
She has received an Excellence Award at the International Ceramics Competition Gyeonggi in Korea in 2024,
as well as at the Mino competition in Japan and the FRANZ Rising Star Project in Taiwan in 2021.
Since that year, She has participated in several group exhibitions, including Everything is in its Place (2021) at SeMA Storage, Made, Created, Formed(2023),
Still, a Happy Ending (2024), Art Busan (2024). Additionally, she has held 6 solo exhibitions during this period.