Born in Seoul, Korea in 1977, Kang studied the course of oriental painting at Ewha Womans University, and she graduated from the Painting Department of Royal College of Art in London in 2012. Kang's works have been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, the Walker Art Center, and the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, and they have been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Buk Seoul Museum of Art. She participated in the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, and Liverpool Biennial. Kang is currently teaching in the Department of Korean Painting at Ewha Womans University.