Arts Division
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Film and Digital Media
YoungEun Kim's work examines sound and listening as sociopolitical and historical products and practices. Her recent works explore how sound and listenin are constructed and technically developed within specific historical contexts, and what possibilities listening offers in knowledge production and decolonizatio processes. Her work has been presented at the Gwangju Biennale; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland; Samsung Museum of Art, Korea; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, USA; and many others. She has recieved ACC Future Prize and awarded at the Prix Ars Electronica, the SongEun Art Award and Jecheon International Music and Film Festival. She was an artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
2025, Korea Artist Prize, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2024, Gwangju Biennale: Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century, Gwangju, Korea
2023, Beyond the Crest, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2023, Image Forum Festival, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo; The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto; Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
2023, Monitoring: This Image Will Become Important Later, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kasseler KulturBahnhof, Kassel, Germany
2023, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2024, Gwangju Biennale: GB Talk, Gwangju, Korea
2024, Sound and Writing in East Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2023, Artist Talk, Music Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
