Gunyoung Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art in Ceramics from Kook-Min University in Korea in 2010 and her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2014 where she developed her studio practice and gained teaching experience. After graduate school, Gunyoung was the long-term ceramic artist-in-residence at Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, Kansas. She also completed a short-term residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. She was selected as an Emerging Atist in the May 2016 issue of Ceramics Monthly. She has received the individual Excellence Award from Ohio Arts Council in 2017.