New York, NY, November 20, 2024 — Opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 8, 2025, Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is the artist’s first major museum survey. Co-organized by the Whitney Museum and Walker Art Center, the exhibition foregrounds how Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) utilizes sound, language, and the complexities of communication in her wide-ranging approach to artmaking. All Day All Night brings together over 90 artworks spanning 2011 to the present across three floors of the Museum and features drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures.
Using musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—Kim has produced a perceptive, poetic, humorous, and political body of work. In her artwork, activism, and public voice, Kim confronts the systemic marginalization of the Deaf community and subordination of access while celebrating the importance of community and family. Inspired by similarly named works made at different moments in her career, the exhibition’s title, All Day All Night, points to the energy Kim brings to her artistic practice; she is relentlessly experimental, iterative, and dedicated to sharing her lived experiences with a broad spectrum of audiences.
This mid-career survey builds on the artist and the Whitney’s sustained relationship. Between 2007 and 2014, Kim was an educator, and later, a consultant, for the Museum, where she helped to establish Whitney Signs, an ongoing program that offers tours in ASL led by Deaf educators, and ASL-led vlogs. She returned to the Whitney in 2018 to present the public art installation Too Much Future, her first large-scale mural, and in 2019, she was featured in the Whitney Biennial.
“We are thrilled to extend the Whitney’s long-standing and close relationship with Christine Sun Kim and honored to collaborate on this important milestone in her career,” said Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney. “Ranging in scale from intimate charcoal drawings to architectural installations, Kim’s work is full of acerbic wit and pointed commentary, while generously offering ways for audiences to understand how the artist navigates the world.”
“The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the importance placed on sound,” said Jennie Goldstein, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection at the Whitney Museum. “It encourages us to consider the diversity and richness of Deaf culture and the complexities of identity more broadly, in relation to artistic collaboration, parenthood, immigration, or diasporic experience.”
“When you sign All Day All Night, you almost make a circle in the air,” Kim said. “For me, having started at the Whitney as an educator and coming back as an artist, it’s a full circle moment.”
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night will be on view through July 2025. This exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The organizing curators are Jennie Goldstein, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pavel Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy, Walker Art Center; and Tom Finkelpearl, independent curator; with Rose Pallone, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Walker Art Center. The exhibition will be on view at the Walker Art Center from March 27 through September 6, 2026.