Christine Sun Kim

Artist

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Orange County, CA & Berlin, Germany

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A Korean-American woman sits at her studio desk in a chair and looks coolly at the camera. She has warm light skin, long straight black hair, blunt bangs, and wears dark lipstick, round glasses, a casual black button-down, and long striped shorts.

Christine Sun Kim lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She has built an acclaimed practice around sound, its visual representations and its circulation as social currency. Kim uses performance, video, drawing, writing, and technology to reflect on her experiences as part of the Deaf community and to comment on the social and political operations of sound. A keen observer of language, Kim employs American Sign Language, music notation, televisual captioning, and other systems of visual communication in a wide ranging practice that addresses the intricacies of social exchange and the power of representation with illuminating wit and candor. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2020); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2019); Whitney Museum, New York (2018); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam (2017); Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2017); Berlin Biennale (2016); Shanghai Biennale (2016); Sound Live Tokyo (2015, 2013); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013).