Born in Seoul, Hong earned both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the Department of Painting at Hongik University, and later pursued further graduate studies at Pratt Institute in New York. After establishing her career in New York, she relocated to Seoul in the aftermath of September 11 and has since maintained a prolific practice based in Korea.

Since her first solo exhibition in 1992, Hong has presented numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious venues, including the POSCO Art Museum, Kumho Museum of Art, Total Museum, and Space So. Among these, the large-scale exhibition Drawn Elephant:Abstraction 抽象 (2022) at the Coreana Museum of Art (space*c) marked a significant expansion in her practice. Taking place after more than thirty years of artistic activity, the exhibition introduced a series of new artistic approaches that further broadened and deepened the trajectory of her work. This momentum continued with Anamnesis at Indipress Gallery in 2024, followed by the 2025 solo exhibitions In the Flow at Gallery Kiwa in London and Long Beginning at Horanggasynamu Art Polygon.

Hong has also participated in major group exhibitions at renowned institutions, including The Second Skin at ONE AND J. Gallery, Sporadic Positioning at Arario Gallery, Gefäße at Stiftung Zollverein (Germany), Korean Eye at Saatchi Gallery (London), Small Is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery (New York), MoA-picks: reminiscing the medium-a ‘post-’syndrome at SNU MoA, Korean Modernism at Kumho Museum of Art, and Sense & Sensibility at Busan Museum of Art.

Her dedication has been further recognized through residencies at the MMCA Changdong Residency and Opekta Studios in Cologne, Germany. Following grants from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture in 2022 and 2024, Hong was designated an ARKO Selection artist by the Arts Council Korea (ARKO) for the period 2024–2026, receiving intensive multi-year support. Her works are held in the collections of major public museums and institutions.

Driven by a commitment to resisting the inertia of self-replication of her past works, the artist continuously challenges established boundaries to move forward, attempting to widen her perspective on Mother Nature—if not the general physics of the world we live in. The foundation of her practice lies in an energy that prioritizes evolution over mere change, and productive tension over comfort. In every moment, she seeks to redefine her own chronology in its most raw and unadulterated form, maintaining the essence of the prototype of her artistic journey.