Education
1999 M.F.A. in Painting, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
1992 M.A. in Filmmaking, The American University, Washington, D.C.
Position
2000-Present Professor Department of Art, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
2008-2011 Chair, Department of Art, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
2019-2022 Councilor, Maryland State Arts Council
Solo-Exhibition
2022 Mother of Pearl Armoire; Recent Paintings by Sumita Kim, Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Montgomery College, Maryland
2019 Life Report, MK Gallery, Vienna, Virginia
2014 In Limbo, Gibbs Street Gallery/VisArts, Rockville, Maryland
2010 Fragmentary Devotions, Orchard Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
2007 Sumita Kim: Recent Works, Gallery 101, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
2005 Sumita Kim: Recent Paintings, Paul Peck Art Gallery, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Marginalized Histories of Korean Women, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
2011 Fused Identity: Contemporary Asian Artists, VisArts, Rockville, Maryland
2010 Inspiration, American University Museum at Catzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2009 Traces and Trajectories: Current Works by Ten Korean American Artists, Art Center at Linekona, Honolulu, Hawaii
2007 The Nude, Maryland Art Place’s Annual Benefit Exhibition and Auction,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
2005 The Beauty Project, Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Dreams & Reality, Contemporary Korean American Art Exhibition Commemorating
 100 years of Korean Immigration to the U.S., International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2000 Global Women’s Project, White Columns, New York; Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Critics’ Residency Program, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
Grant and Award
2012 Outstanding Faculty- Excellence in Teaching Award, Montgomery College
2008 Individual Artist Grant, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Symposium
2019 Art and Art History Symposium: Marginalized Histories of Korean Women, HCC Digital Auditorium, University of Mary
Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Review
2014 The Washington Post, Mark Jenkins (Feb 9)