Please join us in welcoming Mie Yim, 2025-2026 McMillan/Stewart Endowed Chair of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art. Mie Yim will give a lecture on Monday, September 15 at 12:00pm in Falvey Hall on MICA campus. 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.