Ayoung Kim

Artist Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979) presents the US debut of her Delivery Dancer trilogy, renowned video installations presented for the first time together, alongside the premiere of new work. Recognized as an artist on the vanguard of digital innovation, Kim uses generative AI, videogame engines, and live-action footage to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies. Her works follow female delivery drivers En Storm and Ernst Mo (whose names are anagrams of “monster”). Featuring live-action footage from actors in real locations, the works—which Kim describes as “pandemic fiction”—center labor within the gig economy, which skyrocketed in both Korea and the US during recent years. The exhibition examines the evolving relationships between data, human beings, and the environment, challenging capitalist pressures to meet increasing global demands through self-optimization.

Ayoung Kim is an artist based in Seoul who works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text. Her work has been presented at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2025, forthcoming); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2025, forthcoming); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024); M+, Hong Kong (2024); the Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023), Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2023); HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel (2023); IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Gwacheon and Cheongju (2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016); Kuandu Biennial, Taipei (2022); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung (2021); Videobrasil, São Paulo (2021); Berlin International Film Festival (2020); Busan Biennale (2020); Gwangju Biennale (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), among others. Kim is a recipient of the ACC Future Prize, National Asian Culture Center, Korea (2024), Golden Nica Award, Prix Ars Electronica, Austria (2023), and the Terayama Shuji Prize, 37th Image Forum Festival, Japan (2023). Her works are included in the collections of Frac Lorraine, Metz, France; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; the Tate, UK; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; MMCA, Korea; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Busan Museum of Art, Busan; and the Joaquim Paiva Collection at Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, among others.