Mie Yim (b. 1963, S. Korea) is a New York City based painter. Solo exhibitions include Pace University, Simone Subal Gallery, Olympia Gallery, all in New York, NY; Inna Art Space in Hangzhou, China; Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, Spain; Scott Miller Projects, Birmingham, AL; Basel Social Club at the Beverly Holz, Basel, Switzerland; Villa Magdalena with Galeria Mascota, CDMX, Mexico; The Durst Foundation in New York, NY; Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY; Michael Steinberg, New York, NY; and Gallery in Arco, Turin, Italy. She had a solo exhibition at Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont in 2022. Numerous group exhibitions include Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Seoul, KR; Unit, London, UK; Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 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 a three-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 & 2015, and Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum. She has been awarded Sharpe Walentas Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY; Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY; Public Collections include JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY; Nelsons Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and Chambers Hotel, New York, NY. 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 a solo show at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY in the Spring of 2025.
Image credit: Mie Yim, Quarantine Drawings (detail), 2020-2024. Pastel on Shizen paper, 11.5 x 9 inches each.