Sungsook Hong Setton is a Korean-American painter whose works combine gestural abstraction with East Asian traditions of water-ink painting (sumi-e) as a way to explore the idea of “living ink” and the interconnectedness of things. Setton has exhibited throughout New York and New England as well as in Canada, England, China, Taiwan, and Korea, with solo presentations in New York City, Long Island, and Seoul. She also has participated in more than 50 group shows, most recently in the Long Island Biennial (2020). In addition, she has served as a curator on six contemporary sumi-e projects, including ones for Gallery Korea (NYC) and SUNY at Stony Brook (Long Island). Since 2005 she has pursued multi-media projects, collaborating with composers and musicians that lead to live painting performances. Setton has secured dozens of grants and awards for her art, most prestigious being fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Best in Shows at the Sumi-e Society’s National Juried Exhibitions. She is on the faculty of the China Institute in Manhattan, the Art League of Long Island, and has had invitational painting workshops throughout the United States. Setton trained with Chinese and Korean masters, studied art in Germany, and earned a BFA from SUNY at Stony Brook and an MFA from Goddard College. Her work is represented in the collections of Stony Brook and the Natural History Museum in Oxford, England, and in dozens of private collections across New York, New Jersey, California, Washington, DC, and Seoul.