Taeyi Kim

About

Taeyi Kim is a curator and writer based in the US and Korea, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Her interests center around artists and artworks that address personal or collective trauma, as well as the social functions of visual language and art institutions.

Since the summer of 2021, she has been part of the curatorial team at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 (2023), the largest North American showcase of modern and contemporary Korean art in over fifteen years. Prior to coming to the US, she worked at Kukje Gallery in Seoul as the Artist Liaison for various Korean and international artists. She worked on projects including Jenny Holzer: It's Crucial to Have an Active Fantasy Life (2020), Robert Mapplethorpe (2021), and Haegue Yang: Mesmerizing Mesh (2021). She has also held curatorial positions at the Ewha Womans University Museum and the OCI Museum.

Recently, she founded an interview archive project Radar that presents artists of East Asian descent. Highlighting the importance of continuous in-depth research and the dissemination of artists' ideas, Radar aims to coherently document underrecognized artists in both Korean and English by archiving and preserving the artists' voice.

She is the recipient of the AHL-Grace Charity Foundation Research Fellowship (2024) and the Korea Foundation Fellowship (2021). She was recently introduced as one of the 31 emerging art professionals globally by Art In Culture. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Korea University and a Master’s from Ewha Womans University.

contact: taeyikimm@gmail.com

Writing

Writings in Korean are marked with an asterisk (*). Samples are available upon request.

Chapters and Essays

“Yang Kwang-Ja: On tip of her brush.*” In They Were There Once: Female Artists Who Led History of Korean Contemporary Art, edited by Nanji Yun. (Korean Contemporary Art Forum, 2023), 208-214.

"Koh San Keum: Additive Subtraction." In Extreme Beauty: 12 Korean Artists Today, edited by Elaine W. Ng and H.G. Masters. (National University of Singapore Press, 2023), 28-47.

Exhibition Catalogues

(co-authored) The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989. Philadelphia Museum of Art; distributed by Yale University Press, 2023.

Articles and Reviews

“Hyeree Ro’s Niro Takes Us on the Immigrant Journey.” The Amp, Nov 2024.
“Beauty and Essence in Kimsooja’s ‘Meta-Painting’.” ArtAsiaPacific, Jun 2024.
“Locality and Nationalism*.”Art in Culture, Feb 2024.
“Situating the ‘Asianness’*” Korea Phila Times, Vol. 1256, 1258-1260, Jan/Feb 2024.
(co-authored) “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989.”Arts of Asia, Winter 2023.
“Asian Arts Initiative: The Body You Want.” ArtAsiaPacific, Sep 2023.
"Dew Kim: I Surrender," ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 134, 2023.
"Exploring Subtlety: Interview with Haneyl Choi." ArtAsiaPacific, Oct 2022.
"Hito Steyerl: A Sea of Data," ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 129, 2022.
"Chung Sang Hwa," ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 125, 2021.
“The History of Women in Korean Photography I – Women’s Photography Movements in the 1980s.” ArtAsiaPacific, Oct 2021.
"Reclamation, New Rocks, Stray Dogs, Birds, And Acoustics Of The Garden." ArtAsiaPacific, Sep 2021.
"Yun Suk Nam: Woman of Resistance, Becoming Historic." ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 123, 2021

Translation (English to Korean)

Donald Judd, "Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular." 1993.

Introduced as the first official Korean translation in the exhibition catalog of Donald Judd
(Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul, 2023).