Jinwon Kim is a painter and still-life artist. She pursued her degree in Fine Arts from Mississippi State University, with a focus on painting. She also holds a master's degree in Architecture.
She grew up studying science and recently found her passion in art. At the beginning of her art career, she was fascinated by people's faces and emotions in their daily lives. She loves depicting her main subject's history within her paintings.
Jinwon received various awards during her academic years, including the Mount Vision Pastel Award and Chalet Award for Faculty in 2010 and the Schulman Scholarship at the Penland School of Art and Craft in 2016. Her artworks have been exhibited in many places, including the University of Mississippi through the Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition from 2010 to 2019. In 2016, she won the Juror's Award recipient in drawing at the Mississippi Collegiate Show. Her print work was invited to the 25th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition 2017, and she was invited to the Mississippi State University Woman's History Month Art Gallery for her watercolor paintings. In 2019, her oil painting was accepted to the Streetcar magazine in volume 7. Jinwon's four works were selected at the "Art at the Center 2020 Juried Show" in Kansas in 2020. She has a keen interest in all mediums and visited Korea to study Korean folk art under the teachings of Un Joo Kim for a year. Jinwon also won the "Proud to be an American" mural contest, and her work was painted on the EMCC library wall.
She is open to commissions and offers workshops and group lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students. These could be still-life drawings or paintings, landscape paintings, portrait paintings, or Korean folk art paintings. She loves working with children and teaches at the Appalachian Institute of Creative Learning in North Carolina.
Please get in touch with her at jinwon.suh.kim@gmail.com to share your commission request and workshops or group lessons.