Mie Yim is a painter evolving 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 uncertainty and results in metaphysical portraits that convey pathos, anxiety, and humor.

Mie Yim, born in South Korea, is a New York City-based painter. Solo exhibitions include: Olympia (New York, NY, 2023, 2021); Simone Subal Gallery (New York, NY, 2023); Inna Art Space (Hangzhou, China, 2023); Villa Magdalena (San Sebastián, Spain, 2022); and the Durst Foundation (New York, NY). She has had museum exhibitions at Pace University (New York, NY, 2023) and Brattleboro Museum (Brattleboro, VT, 2022). Group exhibitions include: Lehmann Maupin (Seoul, South Korea, 2024); Jessica Silverman (San Francisco, CA, 2023); Canada (New York, NY, 2022); and Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta, GA, 2022).

Yim is a recipient of the Sharp Walentas Studio Program (2023-2024), the New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship (2021), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2020). She earned her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1986.

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