Kim Myung joo (b. 1973) graduated from the Department of Ceramic Arts at Hongik University and completed a Master's degree in Ceramics, Space and Visual Arts, and Plastic Arts at La Cambre National Higher School of Visual Arts in Brussels, Belgium. She is actively working in Europe — primarily France, Belgium, and Switzerland — as well as in Korea. Since her studies in Brussels, the artist has expressed a deep inquiry into existence through her own unique formal language, focusing across sculpture, drawing, and painting not on representing or depicting objects, but on creating purely from inner form. The world she conveys — infinitely poetic yet charged with a sense of wonder — communicates the ambiguous emotions of joy and confusion that move all human beings. Recent solo exhibitions include Transfigured Night (Hori Art Space, Eye Lounge, Seoul), Subito P – Immersion (Art B&B One-Piece Project, Seoul, 2023), Mirror of Joy (Salle basse de l'Auditorium Rostropovitch, Beauvais, France, 2022), Faces – Visages (Vazieux Art Gallery, Paris, France), Soul of Earth (Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland), and Secret Figures (Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, 2017). Group exhibitions include The Familiar, The Strange (Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, 2022) and Migration(s) (Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland, 2022), among others. She has received numerous awards, including the Jury Prize (Grand Prix) at the Paris Contemporary Ceramic Salon C14 in 2014, the Museum Prize from the Musée Ariana, Switzerland in 2013, and a Silver Prize at the TERRALHA European Ceramic Festival competition in France in 2009. Her works are held in public collections worldwide, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Art Bank (Korea), Musée Ariana, the Guozhong Ceramic Museum (Beijing), the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art Shigaraki (Japan), the Arctic Ceramic Centre in Posio (Finland), and La Cambre National Higher School of Visual Arts. Private collections include those of the former Creative Director of Dior, John Galliano, the Director of Fondation Carmignac (France), and the Director of the Museum of Soleure (Switzerland), among others.