Today I talk with artist Yiyun Kang about her project Anthropause, and her process of making and showing art in the middle of the pandemic.
Yiyun Kang received her BFA in painting from Seoul National University, MFA from UCLA’s Design & Media Arts, and PhD from Royal College of Art, UK. She held exhibitions at numerous art institutions including the Seoul Museum of Art, Taipei MOCA, Victoria and Albert Museum, and participated in international events such as Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale, and Gwangju Design Biennale. In 2020, she participated in the transcontinental contemporary art project CONNECT, BTS as the only Korean artist; in 2017, she received the Red Dot Award with Deep Surface, a commissioned exhibition by Max Mara. Recently Kang had solo exhibition ‘Anthropause’ at PKM gallery, Seoul.
Currently a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), Kang also gives lectures at Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy), SOAS University of London (London, UK), and Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London, UK). Kang is featured in Bloomberg’s ‘Art+Technology’ series and her writings have been published in the Leonardo Journal (MIT Press) and Practices of Projections, published by Oxford University Press. Kang is a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, UK) since 2019.