“My Moon Jar represents a jar of the mind — nurturing and filling one’s inner strength — and carrying the meaning of the heart, the source of life energy. As an active subject generating new energy, it continues to transform.”
— Kim Kyung Hee
Kim Kyung Hee is a Seoul-based Korean artist working within the Minhwa (Korean folk painting) tradition, whose practice centres on the Moon Jar — the iconic white porcelain form of the Joseon Dynasty — reimagined as a painted, two-dimensional composition. Trained in metal crafts and jewellery design at Seoul National University of Science and Technology and Kookmin University (MFA, 2005), she has exhibited widely across Korea and internationally since 2013, with works held in public and institutional collections including the Gyeonggi Province Museum and Amore Pacific.