Her artistic process resonates with Shakespeare’s depiction of a poet’s craft in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
"As imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."
Shine Kong earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2004. She has presented several notable solo exhibitions, including Natura Morta (2024) at The Square in Seoul, Sugarfree (2015) at Arario Gallery in Samcheong-dong, and Adagio for Springs (2009) at Arario Gallery in Cheonan. Her earlier solo exhibitions include Steal Life (2005) at Platform L in Alternative Space Loop and Good Morning (2007) at Arario Gallery in Seoul.
Kong has received multiple scholarships and grants, including the Undergraduate Merit-based Scholarship from SAIC (2000–2004, 2008) and the ECP Grace and Walter Byron Smith Scholarship (1997, 1999).