Ejun Mary Hong
Ejun Mary Hong is a Korean-Canadian artist specializing in design, illustration, and story-driven animation. Her work explores memory, resilience, and human connection, shaped by her early vision challenges and the refuge she found in animated worlds.
She has held social, digital, and visual design roles at Sony Pictures Entertainment (Los Angeles), the Walt Disney Family Museum (San Francisco), All Ages Productions (Philadelphia), and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). Her personal animated work has earned 17 awards and 40+ official selections, including screenings at Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying film festivals.
Ejun graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. Fine Arts & Cinema and Media Studies; minor in Design) and received Penn’s President’s Engagement Prize to launch the LensBright Initiative, a Philadelphia-based arts education nonprofit connecting under-resourced high school students to lens-based creative industries.
Hong's email address: ejunhong@alumni.upenn.edu.
- Penn Today “President’s Engagement Prize winner announced”
- Penn Today “Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship”
- Story featured on Omnia Newsletter “Using Animation to Spread Strength and Hope” (July 2024)
- Story featured on Penn Today “Animating for Impact” (August 2024)
- Live-TV-Interview with CTV Edmonton “How this Edmonton Filmmaker is making a mark on the Animation Industry” (August 2024)
- Live-Interview with CBC Edmonton, “An Edmonton animator is pursuing her dream in Hollywood” (August 2024)
- Interview featured on 34th Street “For Ejun Hong, Animation is a Means of Self-Discovery” (January 2022)
Left is a zine about me and my love for animation! And the right is my children’s illustration book, Sketchbook Dreams, that shares the story of how animation helped me overcome my fear of losing my vision as an artist.