Sunhee Kim Jung is the 2019 recipient of the AHL–Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant. In 2023, she established the Mural Project in Thailand, a non-profit organization that houses rescued trafficked children. Jung has been selected by the US Department of State’s Art in Embassy Program three times. Her paintings were shown at the American Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar in 2016 and in 2005, and at the American Embassy in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 2010.
Her paintings are on permanent display at Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs in South Korea. She has exhibited her work in numerous juried shows and solo shows internationally, nationally and regionally including the United States, Austria, China, Costa Rica, Italy, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Trinidad and Tobago, Switzerland, and South Korea. She was recently selected as an artist to participate in the “Water for Life” International Art Exhibition, at Niagara Falls History Museum.
Jung earned a BFA in Painting from Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University and an MFA in Painting from American University in Washington, DC. Jung teaches art courses at the Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland. She is on the board of the Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and on the Han-Mee Artists Association of Greater Washington.
Sunhee’s paintings have been featured WNAV radio, The Capital, The Gazette, The Tower Light, The Carroll County Times, Maryland Gazette, What’s up? Media, WKTV, and more.