Shineh Kim Yoon is a nationally recognized art educator, artist, and founder of Shineh Art Studio, LLC. She leads every class personally. Her hands-on, individualized approach means she has personally taught and knows every student who has come through her studio since its founding in 2003: their strengths, their challenges, their goals, and their potential. That relationship is at the heart of everything we do.

Shineh's love of art began in childhood in South Korea. Shortly after immigrating to the United States at age 15, she was recognized as Maryland's Emerging Young Artist by the Maryland Art Education Association (MAEA). She went on to attend Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), specializing in Illustration, where she received a scholarship as a finalist in the Maryland Distinguished Scholars Program. In 2003, she founded Shineh Art Studio with a single goal: to share the transformative power of art with the next generation.

More than two decades later, her students have earned recognition at national and global levels, been accepted to the most prestigious universities and art schools in the country, and — most importantly — have developed a deep, lasting relationship with making art. That is her greatest accomplishment.

• Five-time Scholastic National Educator:  recognized nationally across five consecutive years for producing top-1% student artists at the national level
• Carnegie Hall honoree:  14 students earned 20 National Medals from among 340,000+ national submissions, celebrated at Carnegie Hall in New York City
• MICA graduate:  Maryland Institute College of Art, specialization in Illustration
• Maryland Emerging Young Artist:  recognized by the Maryland Art Education Association
• Maryland Distingruished Scholars finalitst:  scholarship recipient
• Active practicing artist:  Shineh continues to paint and create. You can view her original works at shinehkim.com

STUDENT COLLEGE OUTCOMES

Over the years, Mrs. Yoon’s students have been accepted to—and thrived at—some of the most selective universities and art schools in the country, for both art and non-art majors alike, many with merit scholarships.