Confident engaging portraits with a clean contemporary feel.

2003 First Prize winner in the National Painting Competition in UK, Garrick/Milne Prize. Paik’s works have been shown in the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of the Portrait Painters at the Mall galleries, the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery Korea (New York City), BP Portrait Prize 2003 at the National Portrait Gallery as well as the 2000 Garrick/Milne Prize.

Paik was born in Seoul, South Korea. She studied drawing and painting with Auseklis Ozols at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, then completed her study with Sidney Goodman and Will Barnet at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Honoured at both Academies with merit scholarships, Paik also won numerous prizes including the William Cresson European Travelling Prize, Benjamin West Prize and Thomas Eakins Prize.