Seoul, b. 1983

Summer Kang continues to explore emotions she wishes to remember by translating them into characters and narratives. Working across various mediums such as illustration, painting, webtoons, and animation, she gives visual form to feelings. She is also the creator of RAINBOW, a Kakao Webtoon series that tells a love story between a blue-suited hero and an ordinary girl. Kang pays particular attention to the qualities of water—its fluidity and sensitive responsiveness. Just as a gentle ripple grows into a wave with a passing breeze, emotions too begin with subtle movements and gradually expand. Water absorbs the colors of its surroundings, freezes in cold, and cools in heat; in the same way, emotions continuously shift depending on the environment and situation. Her work captures these traits of emotion in visual language. She transforms emotions, scents, songs, and fragments of writing into characters, embodying the unseen yet undeniably present colors and movements of feeling. Summer Kang’s work becomes a delicate language of empathy, offering viewers a quiet but profound resonance.