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Ayoung Kim (Currently lives and works in Seoul.)

Ayoung Kim weaves reality anew through a tapestry of hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, technoprecarity, and speculative temporalities into her work. Kim often depicts nonconformists or technoprecarious entities whose resistance or misalignment leaves behind strange and singular traces as they deviate from prescribed trajectories. Kim’s synthesized narratives result in far-reaching speculation, establishing connections between biopolitics and border controls, the memories of stones and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures across various media. Her practice incorporates discourses on optical and post-optical media, performativity, game simulation, and the narrativity of fiction. Her interest in synthesis, hybridization, and the coexistence of heterogeneous time led to an interest in all kinds of intersections, transfers, transpositions, and interchanges of time, space, structure, and syntax.

Education

2009-2010 M.A. Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2005-2007 B.A. (Honours) Photography, LCC(London College of Communication), London, UK (1st Class in Dissertation)
1997-2002 B.F.A. Visual Communication Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions/Events

2026 Delivery Dancer: Time Curves, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
2025 Ayoung Kim: Time Arcs, curated by Mami Kataoka as part of Noor Riyadh 2025: In the Blink of an Eye, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2025 Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex, MoMA PS1, NYC, US
2025 Plot, Blop, Plop, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea
2025 Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2024 ACC Future Prize: Ayoung Kim—Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2024 Delivery Dancer’s Arc: 0° Receiver, ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Syntax and Sorcery, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2022 Crystal Turbulence 晶體湍流, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (As part of Kuandu Biennale 2022)
2021 Oxbow Lake Time, Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (Online Screening Solo Show)
2018 Porosity Valley, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Porosity Valley, Portable Holes (as a part of Melbourne Festival), National Herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2017 In This Vessel We Shall Be Kept (as a part of Melbourne Festival), Collingwood Art Precinct, Melbourne, Australia
2016 In This Vessel We Shall Be Kept, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2015 Zepheth, Whale Oil, Hanging Gardens, Shell (Lecture performance accompanied by a publication), The Book Society, Seoul, Korea
2015 Zepheth, Whale Oil from the Hanging Gardens to You, Shell 2 (Music Theater), Box Theater, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
2014 The Railway Traveler’s Handbook (Sound Drama/Theater Installation), RTO Performance Hall, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea*
2013 The Railway Traveler’s Handbook (Sound Drama/Theater Installation), Box Theater, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
2012 Crossings, 16 Bungee, Seoul, Korea *
2012 PH Express, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2010 Minima Memoria, Street Level, Glasgow, UK
2009 Ephemera, I-Myu Projects, London, UK
2008 Ephemeral Ephemera, Space VAVA, Seoul, Korea *

* Exhibition with Catalogue

Curatorial Project

2013. 05 The Roads of Forking Paths, SeMA NANJI Exhibition Hall, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea*

Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances

2026 Strange Rules, Palazzo Diedo Berggruen Arts & Culture Venice, Venice, Italy
2026 43rd Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan, Korea (Group Screening)
2026 HUMORS, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2026 Watching the Unseen: The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (Group Screening)
2026 Art Basel Film Program, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Group Screening and Talk)
2026 Fallenstadt: the Rise and Fall of Cities, JUT Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
2026 Spectrosynthesis Seoul, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2026 K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today, MASI (Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana), Lugano, Switzerland
2026 Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologie, Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2026 Delivery Dancer Simulation, M+ Mediatheque, Hong Kong (Game Installation)

2025 Unfold X 2025: Let Things Go, Unfold X, Seoul, Korea (Group Screening)
2025 Explorations of Uncertainty, artists’ visions on quantum, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, Nertherlands
2025 Speculative Choreographies (Screening Event Co-curated by Sine Screen), Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art, London, UK (Group Screening)
2025 Thailand Biennial 2025: Eternal [Kalpa], Phuket, Thailand
2025 Performa Biennial 2025, NYC, US
2025 Seeing the Unseen, ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany
2025 5th Industrial Biennial: The Vast Automaton, Labin, Croatia
2025 M+ Facade x Powerhouse Commission, Dancer in the Mirror Field, Hong Kong; Sydney, Hong Kong; Australia (Solo Screening)
2025 Worldglimpsing: Role Play and the Design of Alternate Realities, ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden
2025 La Bella Estate(The Beautiful Summer), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2025 39th Image Forum Festival: Films and Words 1: Contemporary Art, Experimental Cinema, and Their Intersection, Tokyo, Japan (Group Screening)
2025 Roppongi Art Night 2025: RAN Focus, Tokyo, Japan
2025 BusanMoCA Cinemedia_ After Cinema, Busan Museum of Contemporary art, Busan, Korea (Group Screening)
2025 Quantum Visions, HEK (House of Electronic Arts) Basel, Switzerland; MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2025 Korea-Canada Convergence Art Exhibition: Spectrum of Humanity, Cinéma du Musée, Montreal, Canada (Group Screening)
2025 Ayoung Kim: Porosity Valley 2, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea (Solo screening)
2025 Prolonged Emergencies 非常の常, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2025 SOFT ROBOTS, Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits, Maranat Al Sadiyyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2025 A Year in Art: 2050, Tate Modern, London, UK
2025 MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA Seoul, Korea
2025 Into Other Rivers, The Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2025 MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2024 Ghost Dancer, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 Future Media FEST-Singularity, C-LAB, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Art Plays Games, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2024 SeMA Omnibus: At the End of the World Split Endlessly, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2024 Me, Also Me, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2024 The 2nd Neo Art Connect (NAC) 2024 Annual Art and Science Exhibition, Hala Laminor, Bucharest
2024 What an Artificial World, MMCA Cheongju, Cheongju, Korea
2024 Madang: Where we become us, Gwangju Biennale’s 30th Anniversary Show as part of Venice Biennale’s collateral event, Venice, Italy
2024 Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2024 LUCID ECHOES, Pylon-Lab in cooperation with the HYBRID Biennale / EZK HELLERAU, Dresden, Germany
2024 Modern Mondays: An Evening with Ayoung Kim, MoMA, New York, US (Solo screening and talk)
2024 Ayoung Kim: Speculations and Tales, M+, Hong Kong (Solo screening and talk)
2024 Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania (Group Screening)

2023 The 34th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore 30th November – 10th December
2023 VAFT Video Art Festival Turku, Turku, Finland 2-5 Nov 2023
2023 Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong (Nov)
2023 The 1st Saudi Arabia Film Criticism Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2023 37th IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL, Theater Image Forum, TOKYO; The Museum of Kyoto, KYOTO; Aichi Arts Center, NAGOYA, Japan (Screening, ‘East Asian Experimental Competition’)
2023 The 36th Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, Helsinki, Finland (Screening)
2023 BLON Animation & Games Festival, Klaipėda, Lithuania (Screening)
2023 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2023 Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity in Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2023 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon, Korea (Screening)
2023 A Dweller on Two Planets, Microscope Gallery, New York, US
2023 Film: An Evening on Magical Realisms and Sci-Fi: Worldlings, STADTKINO BASEL, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Screening)
2023 Collective Worldbuilding – Art in the Metaverse, HEK(House of electronic Arts Basel), Basel, Switzerland
2023 Videoex Festival, Geneva, Switzerland (International Competition)(Screening)
2023 ALMOST GROWN UP, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
2023 BusanMoCA Cinemedia_Climate of Cinema: Isle, the Planet and Postcontact Zone, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2023 20th CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo Screening)
2023 BEK Opening Week 2023: Films, BEK Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen, Norway (Screening)
2023 Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, UAE
2023 52nd IFFR Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Screening)

2022 C/O Digital Festival, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Ayoung Kim Solo Screening, Cinema TICK TACK, TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo Screening)
2022 10-Year Path of Korea Artist Prize, MMCA Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2022 MUBING IMIJI JEONSIHAGI, Special Screening at Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland (Curated by Adeena Mey)
2022 Drifts Festival: Ghosts, Helsinki, Finland
2022 BANDI WALK: One Step Closer to Our Earth, ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2022 Watch and Chill 2: Streaming Senses, MMCA, Seoul, Korea; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Body & Cosmos: The Art of Living Together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
2022 STRP Festival, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Lecture-Performance)
2022 Human, 7 Questions, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2022 Postnature, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea

2021 Frequencies of Tradition, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2021 “Indifferent Surface, Pendulum Movement”, ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia (Screening)
2021 KFFK / Short Film Festival Cologne, Filmforum, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany (Screening)
2021 If Time is Money, Are ATMs Time Machines?, KADIST x G Museum of Art, Nanjing, China
2021 Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest, Berlin, Germany (Screening)
2021 PHANTASMAPOLIS, Asian Art Biennale, Taichung, Taiwan
2021 Posteriority, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2021 “An Unhappy Archive Part II” as part of Art as Connection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2021 Human, 7 Questions, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 CHUNCHEON SF FILM FESTIVAL, Chuncheon, Korea
2021 Nothing Makes Itself, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2021 Drifts Festival-Unmapping Futures, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, Finland (Screening)
2021 2018-2020 New Acquisitions Binge-watching 14284″, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2021 Korea International Ocean Film Festival, Busan, Korea (Screening)
2021 9th Diaspora Film Festival, Incheon, Korea (Screening)
2021 22nd JEONJU International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea (Screening)
2021 From Object to Cosmos, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2020 Frequencies of Tradition (KADIST Asia Program), Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2020 10th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania (Screening and Exhibition)
2020 3rd Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (Screening)
2020 21st San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, US (Screening)
2020 7th Chuncheon Film Festival, Chuncheon, Korea (Screening)
2020 IMPAKT Festival 2020: Zero Footprint, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Lecture Performance)
2020 8th Diaspora Film Festival, Incheon, Korea (Screening)
2020 22nd Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (Screening)
2020 Words at an Exhibition – an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
2020 Where the Tide Has Been (Han Nefkens Foundation + SeMA Media Collection), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Moving Image and Cinema Study Group Screening, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, Korea (Screening)
2020 Arsenal 4 – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., silent green Kulturquartier (Betonhalle), Berlin, Germany
2020 Korean Competition for Shorts, 21st Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea (Screening)
2020 Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 “Part of the Problem” – Forum Expanded, 70th Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival, silent green Kulturquartier (Betonhalle), Berlin, Germany
2020 In Search of Petra Genetrix, MMCA, Seoul, Korea (Lecture Performance)

2019 Migration: Speaking Nearby, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2019 Deficit Faction, Long March Project, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2019 Korea Artists Prize 2019, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Ouroboros, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; The Cube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Video Library as part of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2019 Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2019 1st Sharjah Film Platform, Mirage City Cinema, Sharjah, UAE (Screening)

2018 Courage and Poetry: Refugees and Art in the Age of Mobility, Seongnam Arts Center Media Hall, Seongnam, Korea (Screening)
2018 OVNi (Objectif Vidéo Nice) Video Art Festival, Hotel Windsor, Nice, France
2018 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Executed by HONG-GAH Museum, Event Held at Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (Screening and Lecture)
2018 Dear Cinema 4, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea (Solo Screening)
2018 Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2018 Post Institutional Stress Disorder (PISD), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Allegory, Things, Memory Skill, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
2018 VIDEOBOX #10 – OVNi (Objectif vidéo Nice), Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France (Screening)
2018 SeMA’s New Acquisitions – Heaven, Earth and Men, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
2018 BMA New Acquisitions, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2018 Desk Set, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
2018 OVNi at 2018 MOCA International Video Art Festival, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Do You Speak Pyeongchang?, The Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017 BlaBlaBlind x Available Light, The Book Society, Seoul, Korea (Screening)
2017 Gridded Currents, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Available Light : #1. Après le miroir, Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France (Screening)
2017 Let Us Reflect Film Festival, Chapelle Saint-Jacques centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Gaudens, France
2017 Samramansang: New Acquisitions 2013-2016, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2016 Metropolis of Desire: Visible and Invisible, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2016 Festival Manca Sound Art Festival,Centre National de Création Musicale (CIRM), Nice, France
2016 OVNi (Objectif Vidéo Nice) Video Art Festival, Hotel Windsor, Nice, France
2016 Fraud Tectonics in 30 Years 1986-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea (Performance)
2016 La rumeur des naufrages, Palais Garnier, Paris, France (Group performance event)
2016 EMAP 2016: SOS. Save Our Souls, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
2016 Please Return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
2016 Urban Legends, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Living on the Border, Club Silencio, Paris, France (Screening)
2016 Harsh Landscape: Sonic Cartography, Mcaulay Studio Foyer, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong (Co-presented by CMHK: Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong)

2015 Analytical Index, Cake Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Secret Cinema, Masrah Al Qasba – Theatre, Sharjah, UAE (Screening)
2015 Secret Cinema, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China (Screening)
2015 Secret Cinema, A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE (Screening)
2015 Secret Cinema, Special Program at Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi. UAE
2015 Ana: Please keep your eyes closed for a moment, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE*
2015 Seoul Photo Festival, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea *
2015 All the World’s Futures, Arsenale Corderie, La Biennale di Venezia: 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy*
2015 Film Montage, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea*
2015 Media Salon de SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2014 Confessions of a Mask, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea*
2014 Time of Resonance, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea*
2014 Malfunction Library, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea*
2014 Situations, Amado Art Space/Lab, Seoul, Korea

2013 Roots of Relations, Songzhuang Art Center, Beijing, China*
2013 Crystallize – New Media Art Lab Korea & UK, Old Billingsgate, London, UK
2013 New Photography in Korea, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium
2013 The Hidden Cost of Prosperity, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK*
2013 Maden Pictures 13, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2012 The Shade of Prosperity, Rivington Place, London, UK (Screening)
2012 Theater of Sand in Playtime, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea *
2012 Urban Promenade, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea *
2012 Photo Transgression Part 2, Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul, Korea
2012 Artspectrum 2012, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea *
2012 Korean Eye: Energy and Matter, Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2011 Korean Eye: Energy and Matter, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, US
2011 What Had Happened, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea *
2011 Fotografias, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro(MAM), Brazil
2011 Displaced realities, Oriental Visart, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 When I spoke its name, it came to me and became a flower, 7 Rue Gustave Nadaud, Paris, France
2011 Future Map Prize, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK *

2010 New Photography in Korea, Gallerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France *
2010 Down the Road of Globalisation, Crypt Gallery at St Martin-in-the-fields, London, UK
2010 Summer Exhibition 2010, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
2010 Present from the Past: The 60th Commemoration of the Korean War, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK *
2010 Ways of Seeing (Part II), I-Myu Projects, London, UK

2009 2009 Seoul International Photography Festival, Garden 5, Seoul, Korea *
2009 Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea *
2009 Salon09, Four Corners Film, London, UK
2009 Aim High: Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Awarded Artists Show, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2009 Korean Eye: Moon Generation, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK *
2009 The Cinematic-Montage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea *

2008 T.error: Your Fear Is an External Object, Menupont Galeria, Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, Budapest, Hungary *
2008 30th Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Selected Artists Show, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea *
2008 “Lateral Thinkers – from the Mind to the Wall” in Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie 2008, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany *

2007 “The Alchemy of Shadows”, Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007, Lianzhou, China

Selected Awards

2026 CHANEL Next Prize, The Chanel Culture Fund
2025 Gender Equality Culture Awards – Ilkyung Culture Prize, Womennews, Women&Culture Network, Korea
2025 LG Guggenheim Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, US
2025 Minister’s Commendation in Exhibition and Art and Technology, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea
2024 ACC Future Prize, National Asian Culture Center, Korea
2023 Terayama Shuji Prize, 37th Image Forum Festival, Japan (East Asian Experimental Competition)
2023 Golden Nica Award, Prix Ars Electronica, Austria (New Animation Art Category)
2021 Finalist, Best Experimental Film, Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest, Germany
2020 Best Film Award, 7th Chuncheon SF Film Festival, Korea
2019 Finalist, Korea Artist Prize, MMCA, Korea
2015 Young Artist of the Year Award, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea
2010 The British Institution Award, Royal Academy of Arts, UK
2008 2nd Prize, 30th Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize, Korea

Grants

2025 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2025 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2024 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2023 Project Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2023 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2022 C/O Digital Fellowship, C/O Berlin, Germany
2022 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2022 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2021 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2019 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2018 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2017 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2015 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2015 SeMA Emerging Artist Grant, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2014 MAP: Multidisciplinary Art Grant, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2013 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2012 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2009-2010 Young Art Frontier Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2008 NArt Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea

Residencies

Apr 15-Apr 30 2026 Artist-at-Sea Residency(South Atlantic), Schmidt Ocean Institute
Aug 2017-Nov 2017 Centre international des Récollets, Paris, France
Jul 2016-June 2017 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Nov 2015-June 2016 Pavillon Neuflize OBC Research Lab, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Nov 2012-Oct 2013 SeMA NANJI Residency, Seoul, Korea (Seoul Museum of Art)
Mar 2011-Mar 2012 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Mar 2011 Space Studio Residency at Arlington House, London, UK
Nov 2010-Feb 2011 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Teaching

2025- Invited Professor, Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Ulsan, Korea
2022 Lecturer, “Interactive Media Contents”, B.F.A., Department of Film Studies, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
2022 Lecturer,” Independent Studies”, B.F.A., Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2020 Lecturer, “Video Art & Moving Image”, B.F.A. & M.F.A., Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2018-2020 Lecturer,” Video Art & Moving Image”, B.F.A., Paintings, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul, Korea
2019 Lecturer, “Cultural Contents and Philosophy”, M.Phil. Philosophy, Dankook University, Yongin, Korea
2018 Lecturer, “Art and Philosophy”, B.Phil. Philosophy, Dankook University, Yongin, Korea
2012-2015 Lecturer, “Photography”, B.A. Visual Communication Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

Interviews, Talks, Presentations (Video)

2024 “ACC Future Prize : Ayoung Kim Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse.” ACC National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea, 14 mins.
2023 “Ayoung Kim on ‘Delivery Dancer’s Sphere’”. Frieze London, UK, 4 mins. [Youtube]
2023 “The first Korean artist to ever win the Golden Nica Award”. ArirangTV, Korea, 26 mins.
2021 “Ayoung Kim | Oxbow Lake Time (Anthropocene: Korea×Brazil 2019-2021)”. (Interview) Videobrasil, Brazil, 18 min.
[Vimeo] [Youtube]
2019 “Korea Artist Prize 2019 | ARTIST INTERVIEW Ayoung Kim”. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 13 min.

Selected Periodicals (Magazines and Webzines)

Watlington, Emily. “The 21st Century’s Biggest Art Trend is Not a Style. But Once You See It, You’ll Notice It Everywhere.” Art in America. May. 24, 2026.
Lou, Gladys. “Falling in Love with Oneself in Ayoung Kim’s ‘Delivery Dancer Codex.’” MUBI. Apr 13, 2026.
Kim, Eana. “Ayoung Kim with Eana Kim.” The Brooklyn Rail. February 2026.
Park, Min. “Ayoung Kim Is Stargazing in a Digital World.” Hyperallergic. Jan 6, 2026.
Kwon, Sanghae. “Ayoung Kim、 リアリズムの限界を超え、 新しい視点をひらく 美的・政治的ツールとしての フィクション.” 美術手帖(Bijutsu Techo/Art Notebook). January 2026. pp. 10-19.
Palop, Benoit. “Kinetics of the Posthuman Body: An Interview with Ayoung Kim and Kim Cha-i.” M+ Magazine, Dec 12, 2025.
Ferreira, Caroline. “Performa Biennial, NYC.” Zérodeux 02, Dec 2025.
Davies, Nina. “Dancing in the age of Digital Capitalism.” DAMN Magazine issue 91. Autumn/Winter 2025, pp.114-116
Park, Sehoi. “The Speculative World of Ayoung Kim.” Koreana. Winter 2025, pp.61-65.
Schwendener, Martha. “A Speedy Art-Career Rise Fueled by a Descent Into Our Modern Abyss.” The New York Times, Nov 26, 2025.
Bailey, Makayla. “Body of Work: Ayoung Kim Probes Capitalism’s Human Impact.” Ocula. Nov 21, 2025.
Benzine, Vittoria. “Ayoung Kim’s Sci-Fi Universe Is Jumping Off the Screen and Into the Flesh.” Artnet. Nov 13, 2025.
Jana, Astanov. “Cosmotechnic Choreography in Ayoung Kim’s Delivery Dancer Codex.” CREATRIX, Nov 8, 2025.
Greenberger, Alex. “Ayoung Kim, a South Korean Star, Takes Over New York with a MoMA PS1 Show and a Motion-Caption Performance.” ARTnews. Nov 3, 2025.
Packard, Cassie. “Ayoung Kim Breaks the Clock.” Frieze, No. 255, November/December 2025.
St. Louis, Andy. “Ayoung Kim.” Artforum, vol 64, no. 3, 2025.
Lu, Louis. “Ayoung Kim: A Latent Promise.” Art Asia Pacific. Oct 29, 2025.
NG, Elaine W. “Accelerated Dreams: Interview with Ayoung Kim.” Art Asia Pacific. Oct 29, 2025.
Boucher, Brian, Vivienne Chow, Jo Lawson-Tancred, Annikka Olsen. “25 of 2025: 5 Artists Transforming Time-Based Media.” Artnet. Sep 24, 2025.
Vikram, Anuradha. “Ayoung Kim, Hamburger Bahnhof.” Artforum, vol 63, no. 10, Summer 2025.
Scorzin, Pamela C. “Ayoung Kim, Many Worlds Over, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart 28.02.–20.07.2025.” Kunstforum International, no. 303, June 2025.
Park, Han-sol. “Ayoung Kim and art of speculative world-building in AI era.” The Korea Times. April 30, 2025.
Thaddeus-Johns, Josie. “In Ayoung Kim’s Futuristic Videos, Women Delivery Drivers Are Action Heroes.” Artsy. April 29, 2025.
Choi, Harry C.H. “Ayoung Kim’s Technophilia.” ArtReview Asia. Spring 2025. pp. 28-35.
Shimizu, Tomoko. “Ayoung Kim, 世界のアーティスト2024(World Artist 2024).” 美術手帖(Bijutsu Techo/Art Notebook). April 2024. pp. 18-21.
Lorenzetti, Carmen. “Dialogue with the Korean artist Ayoung Kim.” Tropico del Cancro. Nov 12, 2023.
Heo, Dae-Chan. “Pioneers Who Shaped the Media Art Scene.” Koreana. Winter 2023. pp. 4-6.
Bachl, Hannah. “Invisible Journeys in a Fictitious World”. Ars Electronica. July 2023.
Valentina Buzzi. “Between techno-orientalist constraints and the freedom of infinite possibilities: Ayoung Kim’s Syntax and Sorcery.” Eazel. Sep 19, 2022.
Hyun, Seewon. “[Art in City] The City as a Remote Control ‘Go Straight There Without Transferring.'” THE ARTRO. March 11, 2022.
HG Masters. “Monstrosity and Futurity in Post-Millenial Art.” THE ARTRO. June 2021.
Lai, Ophelia. “The Seismogenic Zone.” ArtAsiaPacific. 40-41.
Lee, Jinshil. “The nth Possible World of Speculative Feminism.” Art in Culture. Aug 2020. (Korea)
Dyhr, Mathias. “Kunsthal Aarhus Brings Its A Game in Diagnostic Exhibition.” Kunstkritikk. January 28, 2019. (Norway)
Ross, Annabel. “Ayoung Kim’s Voyage through Memory and Myth.” Sydney Morning Herald. September 26, 2017. (Australia)
Roberts, Alison. “What Do Petroleum, a Paris Opera House, and Noah’s Ark Have in Common?” The Creators Project. August 30, 2016.
Baumgardner, Julie. “5 Names You’ll Know after the Venice Biennale.” ARTSY EDITORIAL. May 7, 2015.
Racek, Jakob. “Peripheral View: The Work of Ayoung Kim.” BE Magazine, Winter 2012, Vol. 19, Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012. 42-47. (Germany)
Katz, Marisa Mazria. “The Rise of Asian Art.” Departures. October 2011. (US)
Smyth, Diane. “Show and Tell.” The British Journal of Photography. Volume 156, Number 7751. September 2009. 13. (UK)
“Rhubarb Rhubarb 2009 Ayoung Kim.” The Black Snapper [Internet]. 2009. (The Netherlands)
“Today’s Flak Photo.” Flak Photo [Internet]. January 19, 2009. (US)
Világok, Szintetikus. Fotóművészet. February 2008. 80. (Hungary)
Noll, Ute. “Photographer of the future – discovered by Ute Noll.” Photographie. November 2007. 60-65. (Germany)

Selected Publications and Exhibition Catalogues

National Asian Culture Center. ACC Future Prize 2024: Ayoung Kim—Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse. Gwangju: National Asian Culture Center, 2025. ISBN 979-11-92402-85-7 (93600)
Mori Art Museum. MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art. Tokyo: Film Art, Inc., 2025. pp. 77-88.
Phaidon Editors. Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art. London: Phaidon Press, 2025. pp. 134-137.
Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art. Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over. Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2025. ISBN 978-8-83660-680-3
Ayoung Kim et al., Zeynep Öz ed. Yazici Monitor. Yaz Publication Series. Sharjah: Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial 16, 2025. pp. 8-23. Edition of 1000.
Kim, Hong-hee. Korean Feminist Artists. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2024. pp. 127- 133.
Ayoung Kim et al. Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller. Seoul: The Floorplan, 2024. 440 pages.
Lee, Joo Yun. “Data Migration through the Bodies, Rocks, and Optical Fibers in Ayoung Kim’s Speculative Fiction.” CIHA 35th World Congress – Motion: Migrations. São Paulo: Vasto Edições, Comité International de l’Histoire de l’Art, 2023. 454~466.
Kuando Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. 2022 Kuandu Biennale – Time of the Art Society. Taipei: Kuando Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2023.
Al Qasimi, Hoor. (Ed.). Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present Guidebook. Sharjah: Publications Department, Learning and Research Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023. 250~251.
MMCA. Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity of Korean Contemporary Art. Seoul: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2023. 210~215.
Byeon, Hyunjoo. “Ayoung Kim”. K-Artists, Seoul: Archive Books, The Floorplan, 2023. 172~177.
MMCA. Watch & Chill. Seoul: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2023. 86~93.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Hilar Stadler, and David Glanzmann, eds. Drawing Together: 201 Exquisite Corpses. Zürich: Edition Moderne, 2022.
Seoul Museum of Art. UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2021. 18~20.
Cheng, Wang Chia. (Ed.). PHANTASMAPOLIS 未⾄之城. Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. 126~131.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan. Posteriority. Exhibition catalog. Busan: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021. 30~63; 106~119.
Leeum Museum. Human, 7 Questions. Exhibition catalog. Seoul: Leeum Museum, 2021. 263~266; 308; 363~364(KOR). 263~266; 308; 388; 454(ENG).
ARKO Art Center. Nothing Makes Itself. Seoul: Arts Council Korea, ARKO Art Center, 2021. 92~95.
Jacob Fabricius et al. Words at an Exhibition – an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems. Catalog of Busan Biennale 2020. Seoul: Mediabus, 2020. 314~319. ISBN 979-11-90434-09-6
Ayoung Kim et al. Porosity Valley, Portable Holes. Seoul: Ilmin Museum of Art, 2009. 296 Pages. ISBN: 979-11-86905-11-1
Myungji Bae et al. Korea Artist Prize 2019. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2019. 22~81. ISBN 978-89-63032-32-0
Dickersbach, Safia. PRŌTOCOLLUM. Berlin: Dickersbach Kunstverlag, 2018. 186~188.
Goh, Dongyeon. “Ayoung Kim’s In This Vessel We Shall Be Kept (2016): Archival Imagination.” Brilliant Critics: 10 Curators 10 Artists. Published by Korea Tomorrow. Edited by artasiapacific. Seoul: Korea Tomorrow, 2017. 70~89.
Power to the Point: An Evening on Infographics. Booklet of Serpentine Galleries Public Programme. Goethe-Institut, London, UK. February 2, 2016.
Ayoung Kim et al. Zepheth, Whale Oil, Hanging Gardens, Shell. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2015. 192 Pages. 500 Copies Printed. ISBN 978-89-94849-65-2 03600.
Kim, Hyunjin. “Exhibition Guide.” All the World’s Futures. Exhibition guide of La Biennale di Venezia, 56th International Art Exhibition directed by Okwui Enwezor. Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2015. 190~191.
Enwezor, Okwui. All the World’s Futures. Exhibition catalog of La Biennale di Venezia, 56th International Art Exhibition. Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2015. 440~441; 581.
Kim, Hong-Hee. Malfunction Library. Exhibition catalog of SeMA BLUE 2014. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2014. 83~90.
Kim, Ayoung. The Railway Traveler’s Handbook. Solo exhibition catalog. Seoul: Ayoung Kim, 2014. 36 Pages. Edition: 250.
Ryu, Hanseung and Soonyoung Park. Talk to the Artists. Seoul: Fedora Press, 2014. 47~65.
Goh, Dong-Yeon. “Ayoung Kim’s Dialectical Railway Travel: from Colonial Times to the Present.” SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY. Published by Hong-Hee Kim. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2013. 30~37.
Kim, Anna Miyoung. The Hiddeon Cost of Prosperity. Exhibition catalog. London: Korean Cultural Centre, 2013. 12~17.
Kim, Ayoung. PH Express: Journal of Maritime Adventure and International Dispute about Port Hamilton. Freely distributed on the occasion of the Exhibition Artspectrum 2012 at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. Seoul: Ayoung Kim, 2012. 12 Pages. 10,000 Copies.
Koo, Kyunghwa. “PH Express and Geomundo Island Incident or Much Ado about Nothing”. Artspectrum 2012. Exhibition catalogue. Seoul: Leeum Museum of Art, 2012. 14~31.
Kim, Ayoung. Crossings. Exhibition catalog, Seoul: 16 Bungee and Ayoung Kim, 2012. 16 Pages. 700 Copies.
Ed. Ciclitira Serenella. Korean Eye. Milan: Skira, 2010. 170~172.
Choi, Hyunjoo. “Drama and News.” Edge to Edge of Photography. Seoul: Hakgojae, 2010. 304~306; 308~309.
Yoo, Hee-Young. The Cinematic-Montage. Exhibition catalog. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2009. 42~47.
Kang, Sumi. “Stages of Ephemeral Images: “Shortcut” of Ayoung Kim, The Photo Montage Works.” The Wonderful Realities of Korean Contemporary Arts. Seoul: Hyunsil Books, 2009. 156~163.
Haag, Albrecht and Alexandra Lechner, ed. “Lateral Thinkers – from the Mind to the Wall.” Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie 2008. Exhibition catalog. Darmstadt: Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, 2008. 48~53; 199. ISBN 978-3-9810254-6-0.
Kim, Ayoung. Ephemeral Ephemera. Seoul: Mediabus, 2008. 84 Pages. 500 Copies. ISBN 978-89-960226-6-4.

Collections

2026 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, US
2025 MoMA Museum of Modern Art, NYC, US
2025, 2023 Rosenkranz Foundation, US
2025 Gyeonggi Children’s Museum, Yongin, Korea
2024 The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2024 ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
2024 Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2023 Tate Collection, UK
2023 Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2023 The Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art (SLF ICAA), The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Australia
2022, 2012 Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022 Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2021 KADIST, United States, France
2021, 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2021 Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
2020, 2018, 2015 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2019 Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2019, 2017, 2014 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2017 Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
2017 Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2015 Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 The Joaquim Paiva Collection/Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2008 Joong-Ang Daily, Korea

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