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, she explores her relationship to spoken languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large.

She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum; the Drawing Center, New York; the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Manchester International Festival; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Whitney Biennial; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; Berlin Biennale; Shanghai Biennale; MoMA PS1; and MoMA, among others. She is an inaugural awardee of the Ford and Mellon Foundations’ Disability Future Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, an MIT Media Lab Fellowship, and the 2022 Prix International d’Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Her works are held in the collections of MoMA, LACMA, Tate Britain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kim is represented by François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and White Space in Beijing.