Heejo Kim Korean American, b. 1995

Heejo Kim (b. 1995, Seoul, South Korea) earned her BFA (2018) in painting from the Hongkik University in South Korea and her MFA (2023) from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. She has teaching experience in both South Korea and Maryland, working as an art instructor in Seoul from March 2018 to July 2021. Her work was featured in a solo exhibition entitled Hi, could you spare some time for me? at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2022. Kim has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the LeRoy E. Hoffberger Graduate Merit Scholarship and the Vermont Studio Center Partial Fellowship in Johnson, VT. Her oil paintings are saturated with intense hues, drawing attention to the role of shadow and light in what she refers to as a "synesthesia of color

and emotion."