Mie Yim (b. 1963, Seoul) is a New York-based Korean artist working primarily in painting, drawing, site-specific murals and occasionally other media. Known for her mutant imagery, the juxtaposition of brilliant colors and dramatic content is a fundamental feature of the artist’s notion of beauty — which is almost always accompanied by an underlying sense of horror. Yim’s mode of expression bridges compelling dichotomies: luminosity and darkness, artificiality and organic matter, order and chaos, harmony and violence.

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Recent solo exhibitions include: Terra Incognita (Villa Magdalena, Madrid, Spain, 2025), Spiked Garden (Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2025), Nightshade (Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2023), Belladonna (Olympia Gallery, New York, NY, 2023), Mie Yim: Saints, Shamans, and Batshit Crazies (Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China, 2023), Fluid Boundaries (Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA, 2022), Mie Yim: New Works on Paper (curated by Cy Schnabel, Galeria Mascota, CDMX, Mexico, 2022), Mie Yim: Mutants (Villa Magdalena, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 2021).

 

Recent group shows include: Wonderland (Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea, 2024), Cathartic Creatures (Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2023), and Notions (Canada, New York, NY, USA, 2023).