Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night 

 

February 8-July 6, 2025 @Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

March 27-September 6, 2026 @Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 

Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: Cues on Point (Secession, Vienna, February 17–April 16, 2023). From left to right: Christine Sun Kim, Prolonged Echo, 2023; Long Echo, 2022; and Cues on Point, 2022. Courtesy the artist, Secession, François Ghebaly Gallery, and WHITE SPACE. Photograph by Oliver Ottenschläger

 

 

몸과 음악, 언어, 수화를 모티프로 한 드로잉, 조각, 비디오, 퍼포먼스 작업을 하는 청각장애 아티스트 크리스틴 선 김이 2월 8일부터 7월 6일까지 휘트니뮤지엄에서 첫 메이저 미술관 개인전 'Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night'을 열고 있다. 2011년부터 현재까지 현장설치 벽화, 드로잉, 영상설치물, 조각 등 90여점이 휘트니 건물 3개층에서 선보일 이번 서베이전에서는 소통, 언어, 소리의 가능성과 정치성에 촛점을 맞춘다. 

 

1980년 캘리포니아주 오렌지카운티에서 태어난 크리스틴 선 김은 로체스터공대(Rochester Institute of Technology) 학제간 연구를 전공한 후 스쿨오브비주얼아트(SVA)에서 석사학위, 바드칼리지에서 사운드와 음악으로 석사학위를 받았다. 

 

크리스틴 선 김은 휘트니뮤지엄의 교육자와 컨설턴트(2007-2014)를 지냈으며, 장애인 교육자가 이끄는 ASL 투어와 Whitney Signs를 설립하는데 기여했다. 2013년 MoMA에서 'Soundings: A Contemporary Score' 드로잉전을 열었다. 2018년엔 휘트니뮤지엄 밖에 공공 설치물 'Too Much Future'를 전시했으며, 2019 휘트니 비엔날레, 2023 광주 비엔날레에 참가했다. 현재 베를린에서 살며 작업하고 있다. 

 

스캇 로스코프(Scott Rothkopf) 휘트니 디렉터는 "친밀한 목탄화에서 건축 설치물에 이르기까지 규모가 다양한 김씨의 작품은 신랄한 재치와 날카로운 해설로 가득 차있으며, 관람객이 아티스트가 세상을 어떻게 탐색하는지 이해할 수 있는 방법을 아낌없이 제공한다"고 밝혔다. 

 

이 전시는 미네아폴리스의 워커아트센터(Walker Art Center, 3/27-9/6, 2026)로 이어진다.  

 

 

2019 휘트니 비엔날레 자신의 작품 앞에서 크리스틴 선 김. Photo: Sukie Park/ NYCultureBeat

New York, NY, February 14, 2025 — The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that artist Christine Sun Kim will present the 2025 Walter Annenberg Lecture on Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 pm in the Museum’s Susan and John Hess Family Theater and livestreamed on the Whitney’s YouTube channel. The Walter Annenberg Lecture coincides with a special week of programming with Kim, whose first major museum survey, Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, is currently on view at the Whitney through July 6, 2025.

 

For this Walter Annenberg Lecture, Kim presents “Deaf Death,” a lecture-performance that explores the tendency for text programs to autocorrect the word “deaf” to “death.” Using images and incisive commentary, Kim questions both what defines disability, and how different definitions reflect fears and hopes for the future. The artist and Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director, will engage in a conversation following the presentation.

 

This annual lecture is given in honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador. Past Annenberg Lecture participants include Nancy Baker Cahill (2024), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (2023), Dawoud Bey (2021), Julie Mehretu (2020, presented spring 2021), Jason Moran (2019), Kara Walker (2018), Catherine Opie (2017), Martha Rosler (2016), and Frank Stella (2015).

 

In addition to the lecture, Kim will participate in a week of programming in conjunction with Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. On Saturday, March 8, Kim will join Whitney Signs, an ongoing program that offers tours in American Sign Language (ASL) led by Deaf educators. She will also lead an artmaking project for visitors of all ages on Free Second Sunday on Sunday, March 9 and a Teen Open Studio on Friday, March 14.

 

This week of programming marks a return to the Whitney for Kim, where she began her career and has maintained a long-standing relationship. Between 2007 and 2014, Kim was an educator, and later, a consultant, for the Museum, where she helped to establish Whitney Signs and ASL-led vlogs. She returned to the Whitney in 2018 to present the public art installation Too Much Future, and in 2019, she was featured in the Whitney Biennial.

 

“For me, having started at the Whitney as an educator and coming back as an artist, it’s a full circle moment,” Kim said.

 

Kim is an artist who works with sound, language, and the complexities of communication in her wide-ranging approach to artmaking. She uses musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—to create drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures. 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.

 

Program Details

 

Whitney Signs: Christine Sun Kim

Saturday, March 8

3:30–6 pm

Join us for an in-person tour of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night led by two Deaf educators, Joyce Hom and Gina Marciona, in American Sign Language (ASL). The event begins with a tour at 3:30 pm and will be followed by a Q&A and reception with artist Christine Sun Kim, who helped to start the Whitney Signs program in 2007. This tour will not have voice interpretation.

Location: Meet in the lobby

Event link: whitney.org/events/whitney-signs-csk

 

Free Second Sunday

Sunday, March 9

11 am–4 pm

Visitors of all ages are invited to join artist Christine Sun Kim for an artmaking project inspired by her exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night on Free Second Sunday. ASL interpreters and Deaf educators will be present.

Location: Floor 3, Artspace

Event link: whitney.org/visit/second-sundays

 

Walter Annenberg Lecture: Christine Sun Kim: Deaf Death

Thursday, March 13

6:30 pm

For this Walter Annenberg Lecture, Kim presents “Deaf Death,” a lecture-performance that explores the tendency for text programs to autocorrect the word “deaf” to “death.” Using images and incisive commentary, Kim questions both what defines disability, and how different definitions reflect fears and hopes for the future. A conversation between Kim and Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director, follows the presentation. Audiences can register for the Zoom livestream on whitney.org.

Location: Floor 3, Hess Theater and online, via Zoom

Event link: whitney.org/events/walter-annenberg-lecture

 

Open Studio for Teens with Artist Christine Sun Kim

Friday, March 14

4–6 pm

Teens are invited to join artist Christine Sun Kim in a special Open Studio for Teens, a free artmaking program held on select Fridays at the Whitney. Teens will experiment with combining visual art and language to create their own poetic, humorous, and thought-provoking artwork while learning how art can be a powerful way to share personal experiences and engage with others. Free for teens, and no prior art experience is needed—everyone is welcome.

Location: Floor 3, Artspace

Event link: whitney.org/events/open-studio-christine-sun-kim

 

ASL Exhibition Tour (with voice interpretation): Christine Sun Kim

Friday, February 14 and March 14 at 7 pm

Friday, April 11, May 9, June 13 at 6 pm

On Free Friday Nights, join us for a 30-minute ASL tour of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night led by Deaf educators Joyce Hom and Gina Marciona. An ASL interpreter will be present to provide voice interpretation.

Location: Floor 8

Event links: whitney.org/events/csk-asl-tour-voice-1, whitney.org/events/csk-asl-tour-voice-2

 

About 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.