Mie Yim has been painting for over 30 years and steadily increasing her presence in the art
world.
She has evolved from narrative figuration to abstract-figuration, drawing from her Korean
heritage. Her paintings feature sugary colors and anthropomorphic elements, creating surreal,
organic, machine-like beings. Yim’s intuitive approach embraces uncertainly and results in
metaphysical portraits that convey pathos, anxiety and humor. Yim’s practice acts as a bridge
between personal reflection and an artist language that delves into the complexities of the
human experience, exploring the duality of beauty and horror, mirroring life and death, and the
emotions that lie just beneath the surface. She has had numerous solo and group shows in New
York City and Europe and Asia, including Pace University, Simon Subal Gallery, Villa
Magdalena, Olympia, Brattleboro Museum, Inna Art Space in China, Canada Gallery, The
Drawing Center, Lehmann Maupin and many more. She as received 2 NYFAs, Pollock Krasner
Grant, Artist in the Market Place at the Bronx Museum and more. She just completed a year of
artist residency at Sharpe Walentas in Brooklyn, 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. Public
collections include Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, JP Morgan Chase, Weatherspoon
Art Museum in Greensboro, NC and others. There are many color catalogs from various shows
as well as "A.B.C. of S.E.X." published by Pointed leaf Press in 2008, now a cult classic. She
just concluded having 3 solo shows recently, Jupiter Contemporary in Miami in 2024 and Smack
Mellon, Brooklyn NY and Broadway Gallery, New York in 2025. She is a fellow at BAU Institute,
Cassis France, where she will be one of the artist in residence in the summer of 2025. Lastly,
she will be having a solo show at Villa Magdalena, their second location in Spain, this one in
Madrid in the fall of 2025.