Based in Seoul
PROJECTS
| ROLL |Sanrio Virtual Festival 2025 | Technical Team
Selected for the Sanrio Virtual Festival Award as part of the XR Festival Asia × Sanrio Virtual Festival Project, with a recommendation from the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.
Developed the Hello Kitty phone functionality, a key feature of the project, and provided technical support throughout the production.
Upcoming Event : Ayoung Kim Exhibition, MoMA, New York, USA November 6, 2025—March 16, 2026
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2025 LG Guggenheim Award
- 2024 ACC Future Prize, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
In this exhibition, Kim highlights the numerous traditional calendar and timekeeping practices that have been forgotten or lost due to Western modernization. Although each culture possesses its own unique timekeeping system and calendar, reflecting its history and philosophy, the Gregorian calendar has become the global standard in the modern world.
The standardization of time and calendars is linked to the dynamics of imperialism and political power during modernization and globalization. This work puts forth the traditional cosmologies and time systems of diverse cultures that have gradually vanished due to Western modernization, reflecting her effort to reintroduce them into the narrative of contemporary art.
Source: ACC website
TRPG : TRPG | Music
Immersive XR Performance with Live Audience Interaction
- November, 2024
Excercise for Haters | Music
Immersive Robot Performance
- July 19—July 24, 2024
Set in a fictional company striving to become an innovation leader by massively deploying robot employees, this performance allows up to 80 audience members to ‘clock in’ as human employees, simultaneously experiencing and shaping the show.
Cilmbing for Rapunzels | Music
Climbing Theater
- May 30—June 1, 2024
"Those who have experienced betrayal of trust need the strength to see the world upside down."
We are all trapped in a tower—sometimes by blood ties, sometimes by societal structures, and sometimes by our own memories.
The performance explores themes of trust and betrayal, connection and disconnection, roots and existence, inviting the audience to question their own boundaries.
Like Rapunzel, it encourages them to find the courage to climb their own towers.
3 Channel Video Installation Art
- April 12—May 18, 2024
The physical principle that everything in the universe fundamentally exists as a wave extends beyond the limits of human auditory perception. The sound of matter and the transformed voice create multiple layers, resonating with fundamental questions.
VR Film
- November, 2024
- September, 2024
- November, 2023
VR Immersive Theater
- November, 2023
Gwangju, Korea
- September, 2023
Within the narrative, actors and audience members adopt virtual identities, forming relationships and interacting through sensory experiences impossible in the real world.
This project envisions a new kind of theater experience through the fusion of art and technology.
Audiences awaken as tiny spores of fungi, driven by an instinctive hunger for food, venturing into the unknown.
Just as they reach their final destination, believing they have won the game… they realize they have devoured humanity’s seed vault—the last hope of a species that fled Earth due to climate catastrophe.
Prayer(祈) | Music
- November, 2023
When the heavens finally respond to a millennium of prayers, the Imoogi's dance and cries radiate brighter than shimmering waves and more brilliant than moonlight.
The Dead Leading Messenger | Music
- August, 2023
If we view life as a long journey, the destination is the same for all. This piece wishes those whose life approaches its final destination a peaceful end to their journey with the guidance of Death.