SunKoo Yuh

SunKoo Yuh was born in Seoul, Korea. After three years of service in military, Yuh earned his BFA degree from Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea in 1988. In the same year, Yuh immigrated to the United States where he spent a period of time at the University of California, Long Beach, before obtaining an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, New York in 1997. Yuh’s work is informed by his personal and intimate experiences in everyday life. He records these impressions as spontaneous yet intricate ink and brush works. Selected two-dimensional compositions are then represented and re-contextualized into conceptual and three-dimensional forms.

Yuh’s work won the grand price in the second World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea International Competition and in 2006 he was awarded a grant in sculpture from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work is include in important private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.

As a professor at the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia in Athens, Yuh continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.