Su Jin Kang (b. 2004) is a South Korean artist born in Tangerang, Indonesia. She is currently pursuing Fine Arts at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, where she is also double minoring in Art History and Business. Su Jin began her art studies at the Jakarta Intercultural School, where she developed a passion for art. In the fall of 2024, she had the opportunity to study abroad at Cornell’s Rome campus, further expanding her artistic perspective.

Su Jin's artistic practice is driven by an ongoing engagement with materiality, exploring how surfaces, textures, and structures shape the visual and tactile experiences of art. Working across painting and soft sculpture, she creates compositions that expose rather than conceal their construction. Her use of stretchers, plaster, and pigment as active elements engages with traditions of Arte Povera and Minimalism while resisting their rigid constraints. Influenced by Eva Hesse’s focus on process and material vulnerabilities, Su Jin's work emphasizes the raw qualities of the medium over illusion, maintaining a visceral presence in her paintings and sculptures.

Her work prioritizes form and structure over narrative, encouraging the viewer to focus on the immediacy of seeing. In her sculptural pieces, she is particularly drawn to plaster for its transformative properties, capturing movement in stillness. Often extending plaster beyond the frame in her installations, she invites the viewer to engage with the material process. Su Jin’s practice resists grand themes in favor of exploring material truth—what she has seen and felt—through a tactile, immersive approach to art.

Su Jin has participated in various group exhibitions, showcasing her diverse body of work, including paintings, sculptures, and photo books. With aspirations to become an art curator or appraiser, she continues to explore the intersection of art, history, and business in both her academic and creative endeavors.