Originally from South Korea, Yoonjee Kwak currently is a resident artist and taught ceramics classes at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She received a BFA in Ceramics and Glass at Hong-Ik university in Seoul, South Korea, before earning her MFA in Ceramics at the School for American Crafts (SAC) in Rochester Institute of Technology in 2014. In 2016, she was awarded an Emerging Artist from Ceramics Monthly magazine, and was one of the Summer resident artist in Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana.
