This exhibition surveys Kim’s entire artistic output to date and features works ranging from early 2010s performance documentation to her recent site-responsive mural, Ghost(ed) Notes (2024). In works full of sharp wit and incisive commentary, Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California) engages sound and the complexities of communication in its various modes. Using musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—she has produced drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations that often explore non-auditory, political dimensions of sound. In many works, Kim draws directly on the spatial dynamism of ASL, translating it into graphic form. By emphasizing images, the body, and physical space, she upends the societal assumption that spoken languages are superior to those that are signed.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). From left
to right: Christine Sun Kim, Ghost(ed) Notes,
2024; Christine Sun Kim, All Day All Night,
2023. Photograph by David Tufino.
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). From left
to right: Prolonged Echo, 2023 (re-created
2025); Small Echo, 2022; Small Echo, 2022.
Photograph by David Tufino.
Christine Sun Kim, Fort of Fortes, 2015. Charcoal on paper, 11 × 15 in.© Christine Sun Kim
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). Christine
Sun Kim, The Grid of Prefixed Acousmatics,
2017. Photograph by David Tufino.
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025).
Arch-Acousmatic, 2017. Photograph by David
Tufino.
Christine Sun Kim, Mega-Acousmatic, 2017. Porcelain and ceramic with stain and clear glaze ceramic, 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. © Christine Sun Kim. Courtesy François Ghebaly Gallery and WHITE SPACE.
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). One
Week of Lullabies for Roux, 2018.
Photograph by David Tufino
Installation View of Christine Sun Kim: All
Day All Night (Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, February 8-July 6, 2025).
From left to right: Too Possessive for Score,
2015; TBD TBC TBA, 2015; Fort of Fortes,
2015; Almost a Score, 2015. Photograph by
David Tufino.
Installation view of Christine Sun Kim: All Day
All Night (Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, February 8-July 6, 2025). Christine
Sun Kim, Close Readings, 2015. Photograph
by David Tufino.
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