Gaeun Kim (b. 2000, they/them)
is a ceramic artist currently based in Baltimore, MD. They recently graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with a BFA in Ceramics and Interactive Arts. Gaeun works primarily in sculptural ceramics and site-specific installations. Gaeun was born and raised in Seoul, Korea, where ongoing rapid urban development and gentrification took place. They learned to constantly move and make new homes amid frequent displacements. In conversation with clay’s ability to flexibly capture different gestures of being, Gaeun creates emotive abstract forms.