Christine Sun KIM
Christine Sun Kim is an American artist based in Berlin. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and strategically deployed humor are all recurring elements in her practice. Working across drawing, performance, video and large scale murals, Kim 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2025); Gwangju Biennale (2023); Secession, Vienna (2023); Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); Manchester International Festival, Manchester (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2020); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (2019); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam (2017); Berlin Biennale (2016); Shanghai Biennale (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2015) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), among numerous others. Kim’s awards and fellowships include an MIT Media Lab Fellowship, a United States Artists fellowship, a Ford and Mellon Foundations’ Disabilities Future Fellowship, and the Prix International d’Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Her works are held in numerous prominent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, LACMA, Tate Britain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She is represented by François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and WHITE SPACE in Beijing.
SELECTED WORKS
NEWS
HOLDING THE LINE, On the art of Christine Sun Kim
ARTFORUM
April 2025, VOL. 63, NO. 8
Christine Sun Kim’s Multidimensional Music
HYPERALLERGIC
2.23, 2025
An Artist Expands the Landscape of Sound
The New York Times
2.14, 2025
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
Whitney Museum of American Art
2.8 – 7.6, 2025
‘Silence is a very obscure sound’ Christine Sun Kim on her sound art
The Guardian
2.6, 2025
‘Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night’ At The Whitney Will Transform Your Perception Of The Deaf Community
Forbes
2.6, 2025
Prosodic Grains
BY ART MATTERS
11.2, 2024 – 3.30, 2025
ENNOVA Art Biennale: Multiple futures – New visions of our life
ENNOVA Art Museum
10.27, 2024 – 5.7, 2025
Dream Time
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
1.27 – 4.28, 2024
With Sign Language and Sound, an Artist Upends Audience Perceptions
The New York Times
7.9, 2022
Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 1, The Far-Near
Hua International
2022.4.29 – 2022.7.23
‘She’s creating her own language’ Christine Sun Kim’s unique sound art
The Guardian
2022.3.24
How I became an artist: Christine Sun Kim
Art|Basel
2022.3
CRIP TIME
Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK
2021.9.18 – 2022.1.30
Christine Sun Kim: On What Listening Looks Like
The Gentlewoman Magazine, Issue 24, Autumn. Winter.
Christine Sun Kim与ARGOS总监谈如何将“残障”问题框定在污名之外
Ocula
2021.8.14
Interweaving Poetic Code
Mill 6 CHAT
2021.5.1 – 7.18
American Sign Language Finds Its Spotlight
The New York Times
2021.3.25
Translating Deaf Culture, Christine Sun Kim Underlines the Difficulty of Interpretation
Hyperallergic
2021.1.19
‘I Want to Be Able to Maintain My Clear Voice’: Artist Christine Sun Kim on Translating Her 2020 Into Trenchant New Drawings
artnet news
2020.12.15
100 Drawings from Now
The Drawing Center, New York
2020.10.7 – 2021.1.17
Readings From Below
Times Art Center Berlin
2020.9.10 – 2021.1.31
MAGICAL SOUP
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2020.9.6 – 2021.1.3
Studio Berlin
Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2020.9.9 – 2021.6.27
The Sound of Passing Time: Christine Sun Kim
Mousse Magazine
2020.7.4
Étude
Aranya Art Center
2020.5.23 – 8.23
Christine Sun Kim at MIT List Visual Arts Center
Artforum International
2020.3.2
This artist signed the national anthem for Super Bowl audiences. With her MIT show, she nudges visitors toward ‘respecting our deafness.’
The Boston Globe
2020.2.13
Deaf Artist’s National Anthem Interpretation Is Required Viewing for the Super Bowl
Time
2020.2.3
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
HOW Art Museum
2019.12.21 – 2020.4.12
Ways of Seeing
Daejeon Museum of Art
2019.11.5 – 2020.1.27
An Artist Who Channels Her Anger Into Pie Charts
The New York Times Style Magazine
2019.5.21
Christine Sun Kim
Berlin Art Link
2019.2.8
Review: What does sound look like? Artist Christine Sun Kim’s funny, at times enthralling answers
Los Angeles Times
2019.1.18
Christine Sun Kim
Art Forum
2018.12.23
Navigating Laws and Accessibility in Exhibition Practices
Art Asia Pacific
2018.4.23
Artist Christine Sun Kim on Drawing, Sound, and Interpreting
Humor and the Abject
2018.3.28
Show & Tell with Artist Christine Sun Kim
standardhotels
2018.3.20
Christine Sun Kim
Seoul Museum of Art
2017.11.19
크리스틴선킴 Christine Sun Kim
Art in Culture
2017.1.17
Interviews: Christine Sun Kim
Artforum
2015.11.25
Good Vibrations-Catriona Gray
BAZAAR-ART
2016.11.18
11th Shanghai Biennial: Why not ask again
Power Station of Art
2016.11.11 – 2017.3.12
Harley Weir celebrates female creativity in new film series for Chanel and i-D
CREATIVE REVIEW
2016.11.8
A Silent Soundwalk, Noisy with Abstract Compositions
HYPERALLERGIC
2016.11.4
10 Artists You Might Not Know Are Berlin-Based
Sleek Magazine
2016.10.6
The Politics of Sound：An Interview with Christine Sun Kim
Art in America
2016.10.6
10 Artists You Might Not Know Are Berlin-Based | Sleek Magazine
12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art
artnet
2016.8.24
Meet The Sound Artist Who’s Changing The Way We Listen
UPROXX
2016.5.12
Point to Line
Jewelvary Art & Boutique
2016.5.12 – 6.24
Christine Sun Kim
Arban
2016.5.11
The Deaf Artist Reconstructing Sound
OZY
2016.4.27
Pay It Forward, Christine Sun Kim
Artforum
2016.3.26
The Aural Artist
Interview Magazine
2015.12.14