ARTIST TALK: Sungmi Kong

“Whispers of the Timeless”

An Exhibition by Sungmi Kong

on view from April 1st – 26th, 2025

We invite you to join us for this artist reception on:

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

Reception: 2 – 4 pm
Artist Talk: 3 pm

About the Artist

Sungmi Kong is a Korean-Canadian who was born in Korea and immigrated to Canada in 2010. She majored in Korean painting at Dong-duk Women’s University and graduated in 2000. Since 2015, she has been actively working as a Korean painting painter, participating in various exhibitions in Canada.

Sungmi is best known for her unique Korean traditional folk-art artist using Korean ‘Hanji-paper’ and instructor, which have often been exhibited throughout the Greater Toronto Area for the past few years and getting well recognized. She has conducted numerous exhibitions to introduce Korean traditional paintings to Koreans and Canadians living in Canada, earning awards through these displays.

In 2018, she was selected as one of three Canadian artists for a documentary film project. The project, titled the Healing Art Project, depicted the challenging experiences of Syrian refugees and the process of creating portraits for them. This project resulted in the Healing Portraits Project, an award-winning television documentary in Canada by the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA).