faculty

Sunkyung Kim (B.A., M.A., Seoul National University, Korea; Ph.D., Duke University) specializes in the history of religious art, focusing on Buddhist sculpture, ritual space, mortuary practices, and the visual culture of medieval China and Korea.

Before joining LCAD as faculty, she was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow and taught at the University of Southern California, UC Riverside, and UCLA. She published journal articles on various topics including cave sanctuaries, steles, and sacred mountains, as well as their modern historiography. Her works have appeared in Asia Major, The Journal of Korean Studies, Acta Koreana, Journal of Basic Design and Art, Archives of Asian Art, Ars Orientalis, and A Companion to Korean Art (Wiley Blackwell Companion to Art History, 2020).

She was selected as a recipient of the Field Research Fellowship from the Korea Foundation in 2023, and will be working on her book, Stone, Mountain, and Light: The Art of Sculpting in Medieval Korea.