Mie Yim (b. 1963, S. Korea) is a New York City based painter. Solo exhibitions include Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, Spain, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY, the Durst foundation in New York, NY, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Lehmann Maupin, NY, Michael Steinberg, NY, Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. She had a solo exhibition at Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont in 2022. Numerous group exhibitions include Canada Gallery, the Drawing Center, Feature, Ise Cultural Foundation, Mitchell Algus Gallery, BRIC, Mark Borghi Gallery, all in New York. Other places such as Johnson County Community College, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, The Arts Center at Western Conn. University. She represented a solo booth at NADA 2021 with Olympia and 3 person presentation at Untitled 2021 with Monica King Projects. She is a recipient of Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2020, The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant 2018, The New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship in 2021 and 2015 and Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum. She has a BFA in Painting from Philadelphia College of Art as well as a year abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She will have solo exhibition at Olympia Gallery, Simone Subal Gallery in New York, Inna Art Space in Hangzhou, China in 2023.
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY(Catalog)
Olympia Gallery, New York, NY(Catalog)
Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, CN(Catalog)
Mother Octopus, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Fluid Boundaries, Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT. (Catalog)
Amuse Bouche, Scott Miller Projects, Birmingham, AL
Basel Social Club at The Beverly Holz, Basel, Switzerland
New Works on Paper, Villa Magdalena with Galeria Mascota, CDMX, Mexico
2021 Mutants, Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, Spain
Permutations, with Olympia Gallery, NADA Miami
Psychotropic dance, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Quarantine Lunch, Online Viewing room, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Gioconda, Chashama space, the Durst foundation, New York, NY
2018 Sfumato, Ground floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Catalog)
2015 Two Person Show, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
2004 Galerie in Arco, Turin, Italy (Catalog)
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Two Person show, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Wonderland, Curated by Tae Um, Lehmann Maupin Seoul, S. Korea
2023 An(Other) World, curated by Laura Shao, Unit London, UK
Polireality, curated Sasa Bogojev, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN
Cathartic Creatures, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Deep! Down! Inside! Hales Gallery, New York, NY
Philosophical investigations, Platform, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Notions, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
Danse Macabre, curated by Samuele Visentin, London, UK
Preternatural, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2021 Visual Unpredictability, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY
Three womxn Three worlds, with Monica King Projects, Untitled Miami
Home Cooking, curated by John Yau, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA.
Platform art, online viewing room by David Zwirner, New York, NY
It’s never abstract to its Author, AB Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Dodecagon, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Stone soup, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Winners of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant,
Provincetown Art Museum, Mass.
Chew, Opalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY
Quirk, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
Incise, Echo and Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY
2018 Year Six, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
The Southwest Brooklyn Biennial, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Temporal Escape, 326 Gallery, New York, NY
Parallel Practices, The Visual & Performing Arts Center, Western Conn. University.
2017 FOTG 25 years anniversary show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
Casheesh, Geoffery Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Truth, BRIC art center, Brooklyn, NY
Opening Scene, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Cake Hole, Mrs. Gallery, Queens NY
2016 Reconstructed, McKinsey & Company, New York, NY
Of an Urban Nature, +1+1 production at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Secretary, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York, NY
Assembly Desired, Ground floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Surface II, Curated by Renee Riccardo, Arena, Brooklyn, NY
Chow, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2015 Arts in Bushwick Making History, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY
Cu-li-na-ry, Bronx River Art Center, NY
2014 Exergy, LABspace, Great Barrington, MA.
2013 Tetes, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art on Skateboards, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Bright City, Big Love, Underline Gallery, New York, NY
2010 And the some, Feature Gallery, New York, NY
Power to the People, Feature Gallery, New York, NY
2009 The Great Impression, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass
2008 This is Not About Landscape, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NewYork,NY
2006 Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists Benefit show for
The Foundations for The Contemporary Arts, Bortolami & Dayan Gallery,
New York, NY
It’s a Beautiful Day, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Borderland, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS
Polytechnicolor, Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York, NY
Rowdy Remix, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Internal Excess, Fall Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
1997 In the Pink, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1996 A/C Project Room, New York, NY
1993 NYU Small works show Jurors Award, New York University, New York, NY
Exquisite Corpse Group Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY
1991 Artists in the Market Place, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Awards and Grants:
2023-24 Sharpe Walentas Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2021 New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship
2020 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2018 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
2015 Recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship
1991 Artist in the Market Place, AIM Program, Bronx Museum
Visiting Artist Talk/Interview:
2024 Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
2023 Pace University, New York, NY
Bard College, Tivoli, New York
Penn State, State College, PA
2022 Six Female Artists in New York, Purple Magazine, New York Issue
Pastel drawing demo, Wide Rainbow: Afterschool program
2020 One question one answer, Romanov Grave, Art blog
Stoop studio visit with Renee Riccardo, Online
2019 Sound and Vision podcast Interview, New York, NY
2018 Interview with Art Spiel, Online
2016 Studio visit with New York Arts Program, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Pace University, New York, NY
Selected Press:
2023 “Howls of Uncertainty” Review, by John Yau, Hyperallergic
“Hazardous and barely fictional” Review, by Clare Gemima, Two coats of Paint
A Portfolio: Mie Yim, Juxtapoz Magazine, April
2022 “Fluid Boundaries” Review, by Pamela Polston, Seven Days, Vermont
“John Yau and Mie Yim: Song for Mie Yim” The Brooklyn Rail, July
2021 Paul Laster, 9 Emerging Artists to Discover at NADA Miami, Galerie Magazine
John Yau, Drawings of Migration and Pandemic, Hyperallergic
Nicole Castaldo, Tussle Magazine
2015 Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint
Etty Yaniv, Duplicate Meanings: Arts in Bushwick
2009 Mixed Company, Berkshire Living, September
2008 Going on about town: “This is not about landscape”
The New Yorker, Aug. 11 & 18, P 14
2006 Ken Johnson, Art Listings, The New York Times, February 10
2004 Marco Giacomelli, Exibart On Paper, December
Steve Paul, The Kansas City Star, August 8
Theresa Bembnister, The Pitch.com August 5
Nick Stillman, Critics Picks, ArtForum.com June
Lily Faust, The New York Art World, My
Jinhae Kim, Korea Times, April 14
Ana Finel Honigman, “New York Horticulture” Artnet.com March
2003 Ken Johnson, “Redefinitions of Drawings go to the Wall”
The New York Times, September 12
Stephen, Maine, “Mainline in Brooklyn” Artnet.com, December
Publications:
2023 Nightshade/Belladonna, Olympia and Simone Subal Gallery
Saints, Shamans and Batshit Crazies, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China
2022 Fluid Boundaries, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2016 Posit-A Journal of Literature and art
2009 A.B.C. of S.E.X. Pointed leaf Press
THIS a Collection of Artist Writings Edited by Susan Jennings
2005 Social Text Duke University Press back cover
2004 Uovo Special Issue: The Drawing Collector’s Box
Who Killed Bambi? In Arco Books
Education:
1986 BFA Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Public Collections:
Chambers Hotel, New York, NY
Nelsons Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO