SunKoo Yuh was born in Korea. He received his BFA degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, and his MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY. He is currently Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. He has exhibited widely and has received many awards and honors. Last four years he has been invited four solo museum exhibitions including Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea and Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. In 2005 he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. In 2003-4 he was the recipient of the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition, Icheon, Korea, Illinois Art Council Artist Fellowship Award, Third Prize from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize. His work is in the collections of The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Houston, Houston, TX, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, the Oakland Museum of Art, California and more.

"My work is a means of transformation from interior images to tangible ceramic sculptures. I draw images intuitively and spontaneously with ink and brush. I study my drawings and select a few to transform into three-dimensional clay sculptures. My work expresses my inner emotions, communicates about life, and directly draws from mundane experiences. I want to record my daily impressions through my works with the hope that it will lead me to small insights into my life and family. While making art may be a quest in search of broad meanings or answers, it may be expressed through intimate awareness of daily life."