Miru Kim

A New York-based artist and explorer.  Her  first series  Naked City Spleen is based on her exploration of urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. Her next series The Pig That Therefore I am juxtaposes her skin against the skin of hogs in industrial hog farms to explore the relationship between pigs and humans, and to emphasize the skin as a mingling point of our inner selves and the world at large. Her current series, The Camel’s Way has followed her journey to deserts around the world, including Wadi Rum in Jordan, the Sahara in Algeria and Mali, Thar in India, and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia where she lived with desert nomads, slept in caves, and photographed herself with camels. Her work is now in public collections including Seoul Museum of Art, Hanmi Photography Museum, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Borusan Contemporary Turkey, Addison Gallery of American Art and Hana Bank. Currently she is settled in a cave in the middle of the Arabian desert to finish her performance project using Instagram as the main platform.