My work expresses my inner life and draws from everyday experiences. I want to record my daily impressions through my art with the hope that it will lead me to small insights into my life and family. While art-making may be a quest in search of broad meanings, it may be expressed through intimate awareness of daily life.Sunkoo Yuh
Sunkoo Yuh was born in South Korea and immigrated to the US in 1988. He now resides in Athens, Georgia, where he is a Professor of Art at the University of Georgia. He received his BFA from Hong Ik University in Seoul, Korea, and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred in New York.
Sunkoo's work has been exhibited widely and he has received many awards and honors. He was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition (Icheon, Korea), and a Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant. His work is in the collections of The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Icheon World Ceramic Center (Icheon, Korea), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and elsewhere.