Edited with text by Tom Finkelpearl, Jennie Goldstein, Pavel S. Pys. Foreword by Mary Ceruti, Scott Rothkopf. Text by Brandon Eng, Christine Sun Kim, Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, Rose Pallone.
“[Her] poetic and political art pushes viewers to consider the limits, and misunderstandings, that come with communication in any language.” —Andrew Russeth, the New York Times
This volume surveys Christine Sun Kim’s works across painting, sculpture, drawing, moving image, performance, large-scale murals and collaborations with other artists made between 2011 and 2024. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Identifying as Deaf and Korean American, Kim draws on musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL) and the use of the body, strategically deploying humor to examine communication with her family and her community and to create new channels of dialogue with wide audiences. Published alongside the traveling exhibition, All Day All Night is brimming with supplementary texts from curators, artists and scholars, including an interview between Christine Sun Kim and exhibition curators Tom Finkelpearl, Jennie Goldstein and Pavel S. Pys; scholarly contributions by Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield and Park McArthur; and an intimate artist timeline compiled by Brandon Eng and Rose Pallone. A substantial plate section follows these enriching text contributions. Christine Sun Kim (born 1980) is an American artist based in Berlin. Her work explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments and to the world at large. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2019); and the Art Institute of Chicago (2018).
Featured image is reproduced from 'Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
The Financial Times
Brian P. Kelly
[Christine Sun Kim] a semiotician of the most contemporary strain, probing not just language and its limits but the nature of communication itself, how we transmit ideas and what is gained or lost in the various modes, symbols and attitudes we deploy.
Hyperallergic
Natalie Haddad
Artist Christine Sun Kim shaves language down to its bones, upending the visual lexicon of infographics to transcribe Deaf experiences in a world of exclusionary norms.
Hyperallergic
Lisa Yan Zhang
Through acts of translation that are alternatively hilarious, furious, and moving, Kim makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the physical pressure of bureaucratic power to the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.
The Financial Times
Ariella Budick
[Christine Sun Kim's] first major museum show at the Whitney in New York, 'All Day All Night,' is a mixture of wry, witty, puzzling and angry works. They aren’t always subtle or alluring, but they alert us to the nuances and poetry, the joy and bitterness of living in, and also outside, the hearing world.
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Published by Walker Art Center/Whitney Museum of American Art. Edited with text by Tom Finkelpearl, Jennie Goldstein, Pavel S. Pys. Foreword by Mary Ceruti, Scott Rothkopf. Text by Brandon Eng, Christine Sun Kim, Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, Rose Pallone.
“[Her] poetic and political art pushes viewers to consider the limits, and misunderstandings, that come with communication in any language.” —Andrew Russeth, the New York Times
This volume surveys Christine Sun Kim’s works across painting, sculpture, drawing, moving image, performance, large-scale murals and collaborations with other artists made between 2011 and 2024. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Identifying as Deaf and Korean American, Kim draws on musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL) and the use of the body, strategically deploying humor to examine communication with her family and her community and to create new channels of dialogue with wide audiences.
Published alongside the traveling exhibition, All Day All Night is brimming with supplementary texts from curators, artists and scholars, including an interview between Christine Sun Kim and exhibition curators Tom Finkelpearl, Jennie Goldstein and Pavel S. Pys; scholarly contributions by Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield and Park McArthur; and an intimate artist timeline compiled by Brandon Eng and Rose Pallone. A substantial plate section follows these enriching text contributions.
Christine Sun Kim (born 1980) is an American artist based in Berlin. Her work explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments and to the world at large. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2019); and the Art Institute of Chicago (2018).
