The Bray is pleased to award Sunkoo Yuh with the 2018 Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellowship. Yuh will spend a few weeks in September at the Bray working in the Voulkos Visiting Artist Studio. 


Sunkoo Yuh was born in Seoul, Korea. After three years of military service, Yuh earned his BFA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1988. That same year, Yuh immigrated to the U.S. where he spent a period of time at the University of California, Long Beach, before obtaining an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York, in 1997. 

Yuh’s work won the grand prize in the second World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea International Competition, and in 2006, he was awarded a grant in sculpture from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work is included in important private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 

A professor at the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia in Athens, Yuh continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.