Sun Young Kang is a native of Korea, where she received a BFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman’s University. After working briefly as a children’s book illustrator and designer, she moved to the United States and entered the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she received her degree in 2007. She has participated in numerous juried group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Recently, her work is being shown at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Hoyt Institute of fine Arts in Pittsburgh where she is residing and working as a book conservation technician at the Carnegie Public Library of Pittsburgh. In her work she uses delicate Asian paper in a meditative and sensual way and explores various book and installation structures to create spaces that reflect and embody her philosophy of Buddhism, her understanding of what life means, and her memories of family.