| Yoon Kang-mi | |
| Language: | Korean |
| Genre: | Picture books |
| Occupation: | Picture book author |
| Birth Place: | Gyeongsan, South Korea |
Yoon Kang-mi (Korean: 윤강미) is a South Korean illustrator. “Yoon” is her last name. She majored in painting at university, and has presented her work in numerous exhibitions. She studied how to make picture books in various workshops. She won support for publishing her work through a visitors’ vote in the first Un-Printed Ideas exhibition hosted by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art in 2018. A Building Where Trees Grow is her first original picture book.[1]
Yoon Kang-mi's first picture book The Building Where Trees Grow was selected via a visitors’ vote at the 1st Un-Printed Ideas exhibition, organized by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art in 2018.[2] She was selected as Illustrator of the Year at the 2020 Bologna International Children's Book Fair for the book. She also won the Illustrator Award at the Lit Up! Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC) in Singapore for The Piece of Moonlight in 2022.[3]
A Building Where Trees Grow was praised by French critic Christophe Meunier, for how it portrays the harmony between nature and architecture, and for the imagination underlying it.[4] Italian critic Giovanna Zoboli praised the "simplicity, linearity, immediacy of the narrative solutions adopted by Yoong Kang-mi".[5]