Christine Y. Kim

Christine Y. Kim is an American curator of contemporary art. She is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Before her appointment at LACMA in 2009, she was Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York.[1] She is best known for her exhibitions of and publications on artists of color, diasporic and marginalized discourses, and 21st-century technology and artistic practices.

Life and education

Career

At LACMA, Kim has organized or co-organized major exhibitions including Human Nature: Selections from the Permanent Collection (2011) with Franklin Sirmans;[2] James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013–14) with LACMA's director Michael Govan[3] which won Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally from the International Association of Art Critics United States;[4] Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination (2015–17) with Lynne Cooke;[5] and My Barbarian: Double Agency (2015) with Rita Gonzalez.[6] She also organized the installation of Untitled 2010, an outdoor sculpture project by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), a non-profit organization for public art co-founded by Kim in 2009.[7]

At the Studio Museum in Harlem, Kim organized exhibitions such as Africaine (2002), Black Belt (2003), Philosophy of Time Travel (2007), and Kehinde Wiley: World Stage Africa and Flow (both 2008).[8] She also co-organized survey exhibitions include Freestyle (2001)[9] and Frequency (2005–06) with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden [10]

Freelance projects include her work as curatorial adviser for Prospect.3 New Orleans (2014), and guest curator for Art Public at the Bass Museum for Art Basel Miami Beach in 2011 and 2012.[11]

References
  1. Abrams, Amy. "Christine Y. Kim". Art in America. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. Berardini, Andrew. "Human Nature at LACMA". LA Weekly. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. Nisbet, James. "James Turrell: A Retrospective". caa.reviews. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. "AICA-USA Arts Awards Honor Excellence in Art Criticism and Curatorial Achievement". International Association of Art Critics United States. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  5. http:Ng, David. "LACMA strikes 'unprecedented' museum deal with carmaker Hyundai". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  6. Velasco, David. "500 Words My Barbarian". Artforum. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  7. Mohseni, Yasmine. "Art Public Curator Christine Y. Kim Discusses Taking Art Outdoors at Miami Beach". Blouin Artinfo. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. Art Quarterly. Fine Arts Press. 2003. p. 23.
  9. Jerry Saltz (1 January 2003). Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, Fall 1998 - Winter 2003. Geoffrey Young. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-930589-17-9.
  10. Abrams, Amy. "Christine Y. Kim". Art in America. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  11. Mohseni, Yasmine. "Art Public Curator Christine Y. Kim Discusses Taking Art Outdoors at Miami Beach". Blouin Artinfo. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
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