Jiana Kim creates light using clay. Fascinated by the infinite sculptural capacity of clay, she developed a practice where she would use clay to express her inspirations from light. “Porcelain pieces thin as paper are born into new lives by surviving through extremely high temperatures. These delicate pieces, seeming as if they were about to crumble, are, in fact, the perseverance, promptitude, and wounds that allow us to persist through the hardships of life,” Kim says. In other words, Kim’s works, reshaping the essence of life in the material of clay, are the renditions of her inner reverberations.

Jiana Kim born in 1972, graduated from Parsons School of Design in the United States and completed her graduate studies at Montclair State University before finishing her doctoral program at Seoul National University's College of Fine Arts in 2008.
She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions both domestically and internationally at venues such as Montclair State University Gallery, FGS Gallery in New Jersey, White Gallery, Insa Art Center, In the Box Gallery, and SOMA Museum of Art. Since 2010, she has been actively participating in various art fairs and exhibitions, including the Gwangju World Expo and the World Light Festival.
Jiana Kim's work involves creating images by embedding fragments of thin porcelain fired at high temperatures onto canvases. Her pieces generate unique images that vary each time depending on the changing colors and intensities of light, the direction of light, and the contours formed by the porcelain fragments.