Jihyun Kim

Jihyun Kim is a Korean ceramic designer based in London who works with slip-cast porcelain and a sculptural gloop glaze, giving her vessels an uneven, liquid surface. Born in 1997, she studied arts and crafts at Sookmyung Women’s University, then completed an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art, and now makes objects that sit between tableware and small installations.

Her work draws on Korean fairy tales, folk beliefs and superstitions, and on rituals her grandmother taught her, recognised as cultural inheritance only after moving abroad. Tigers, magpies and salty fairies reappear as handles, lids and glazes. She has exhibited at Collect, Milan Design Week, the British Ceramic Biennial and Fondazione Officine Saffi, won the Rosalind Stracey Ceramic Award at Cockpit Arts, and entered the National Museum of Scotland in 2026.