Mikyoung Kim

Mikyoung Kim is an environmental artist and landscape architect whose work ranges from single sculptures to large-scale master plans. Using natural resources like water and stone, as well as manmade materials such as steel and fiber optics, she creates environmental installations that explore multi-sensory experiences. Kim’s background in sculpture, music, landscape architecture, and design have merged in her practice over the past ten years, yielding unusual works for public and private commissions in the United States and abroad. In addition to River of Light for the U.S. Courthouse in Wheeling, Kim has been involved in two other projects with GSA. She created Echo Dynamics, a stainless steel and water installation for the Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Courthouse Annex in Little Rock, Arkansas, and served as a member of the GSA art master plan team for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Kim received a BA in sculpture and music from Oberlin College and Conservatory and an MA in landscape architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is currently Chair of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where she has been teaching since 1994.