b. 1991 Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION

2018	MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026	I, Sunflower, Bureau, New York, NY
2023	The House in the Trees, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
2022	Sister, Bureau, New York, NY
2019	Coniunctio, Kyung-Me & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Bureau, New York, NY
2018	Poor Thing, Kyung-Me & Sydney Shen, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY
	Theatre of Cruelty, Ashton Hudgins & Kyung-Me, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017	Copy Kitty, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016	BAD KOREAN, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026	V-Effekt, Halsey McKay Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025	From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein, curated by Brook Hsu, Kiang Malingue, New York, NY
	Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Bureau, New York, NY
2024	My Story Gallery, High Art & Sister, Seoul, South Korea
2023	Dwelling, Canal Projects, New York, NY
2022	Introverse: Allegory Today, curated by Howie Chen and Alex Ito, 80WSE, New York, NY
	In the Eye of the Beholder, Magasin III, Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2021	Group Show, in lieu, Los Angeles, CA
	untitled Arrangement, Bureau, New York, NY
	The Lonely Ones, online exhibition, cur. by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2020	Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY
2019	Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
	Human Nature, Tiger Strikes Android, Brooklyn, NY
	Comfort Zone, One Eyed Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018	NADA Miami, Hotel Art Pavilion, Miami, FL
	Cat Lady, Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY
	Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
	Through Line, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	NADA New York, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY
	Wild Seed, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017	First Year Retrospective, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, NY
	CatCatDogDog, Louis Fratino & Kyung-Me, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO
2015	The Gates Are Open, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

BIBLIOGRAPHY & CONTRIBUTIONS

2026	Eshban-Laderman, Yonatan. “V-Effekt.” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2026.
	Lee, Shannon. “The Labyrinths of Creative Process: Q&A with Kyung-Me.” Hyundai Artlab, February 2026.
2025	Wong, Mimi. “8 Rising Asian American Women Artists to Watch.” Artsy, May 2025.
2023	Belknap, John. “It’s dark but just a frame: the drawings of Kyung-Me.” Conceptual Fine Arts, February 2023.
2022	Dayal, Mira. "Sin and Symmetry: An Interview with Kyung-Me." Art in America, December 2022.
	Lee, Shannon. “Kyung-Me on Depicting the Labyrinth of the Psyche.” The Amp, December 2022.
	Yau, John. “Expressionism Turned Inside Out.” Hyperallergic, November 2022.
2020	Illustration in "A Quest to Discover America’s First Science-Fiction Writer." By Paul Collins, The New Yorker, November 2020.
	Storm, Rebecca. “Kyung-Me & Harry Gould Harvey IV's Coniunctio.” Editorial Magazine, January 2020.
	Wu, Danielle. “House of Worship.” The Offing, January 2020.
	Fateman, Johanna. “Coniunctio.” The New Yorker, January 2020.
2019	Hatfield, Zack. “Kyung-Me and Harry Gould Harvey IV.” Artforum.com, December 2019.
	Illustration series with Kyung-Me, Bomb Magazine, Issue 148, 2019.
2018	illustration in ‘Tell Me One More Time What to Do About Grief,’ by Jo Firestone, The New York Times, December 2018.
	Ollman, Leah. “When the cover of a book becomes postcard art: Captivating messages in surprising packages.” Los Angeles Times, August 2018.
	“The Hort’s Favorite Artworks from NADA New York’s 2018 Preview.” Artspace, February 2018.
	“Star Painter Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Favorite Works from NADA New York’s 2018 Preview.” Artspace, February 2018.
2017	“Kyung Me’s Copy Kitty.”The Editorial Magazine
	Fulleylove, Rebecca. “Kyung Me’s detailed series tells the tale of a cat struggling with identity.” It’s Nice That, July 2017.
2016	Wu, Danielle. “A Good Girl Gone Bad Sketches Her Korean American Experience.” Hyperallergic, October 2016.
	Fulleylove, Rebecca. “Kyung Me explores young love in New York through her free-form drawings.” It’s Nice That, October 2016.
	Frank, Priscilla. “Perfectly ‘Bad’ Drawings Depict Your Traumatic Early 20s In Colored Pencil.” HuffPost, September 2016.
	Shi, Diana. “Korean Artist Sketches Awkward Daily Life in Illustrations.” Vice, September, 2016.
	“Preview: Kyung Me’s Bad Korean.” The Editorial Magazine, 2016.
	Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange

AWARDS

2024	21st AHL- T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Gold Award
2022	Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, The New York Public Library

PUBLICATIONS

2020	Copy Kitty, 2d Cloud, Chicago
2016	Bad Korean, Spaceface Books

COLLECTIONS

Baltimore Museum of Art Magasin III, Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm Whitney Museum of American Art