Amy “Yeminne” Kim
Curriculum Vitae (2024)
Depree Art Center & Gallery
Hope College kima@hope.edu
160 E. 12th Street yeminne@gmail.com
Holland, MI 49423
EDUCATION
MFA Photography, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2018
MFA Arts Administration, School of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2009
BA French, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2000
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023- Assistant Professor of Photography, Hope College, Holland, MI
2019-2023 Lecturer (full-time), University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2012-2015 Electronic Media Coordinator, Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, TX
2009 Extras Casting, True Grit, Paramount Pictures, Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen, Austin, TX
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Highly Commended, Belfast Photo Festival International Open Submission, Belfast, North Ireland, U.K.
2023 Honorable Mention, Joyce Elaine Grant Awards (Juror: Shana Lopes, PhD
Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
2022 National Photography Award, Texas Photographic Society, Curator: Kevin Chua, PhD. (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.) Juror: Marni Shindelman (Associate Professor of Photography, Univ. Georgia, Athens)
2022 Innovate Artist Grant ($550)
2022 UT Permian Basin, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects ($3,000)
2015 Travel Award Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC)
Regional Conference. Norman, OK
2015-2017 Helen Devitt Jones Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX ($1000)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023- Assistant Professor of Photography, Hope College, Holland, MI
2019-2023 Lecturer (full-time), University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2015-2018 Instructor of record, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Wolfcamp Catalogue, Dallas College Brookhaven, Dallas, TX
2022 2022 Houston Fotofest Biennale, Wolfcamp Catalogue, Sawyer Yards Studio Houston TX. Curated and curatorial essay written by Kevin Chua PhD., (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2022 Suspension of Disbelief, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX
2022 Wolfcamp Catalogue, Solo Exhibition, Annual Geoscience Symposium, UT Permian Basin, Odessa, TX Curated and curatorial essay written by Kevin Chua PhD., (Assistant Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2019 Photo Expo, Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, UT Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
Juried Group Exhibitions
2023 Honorable Mention, Joyce Elaine Grant Awards (Juror: Shana Lopes, PhD
Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
2021 Embracing Change, Society for Photographic Education South Central (SPESC) Member Juried Exhibition, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas (Juror: Christopher Blay, former editor, Glasstire.com)
2021 7thInternational Exhibition and Publication on New Media Art,
CICA Museum, Kimpo, South Korea
2018 #tpsNewVisions, Texas Photographic Society, Tammy Cromer Gallery, Dallas, TX, First Place Award, (Juror: Kenda North, Professor, University of North Texas, Dallas, TX)
2017 Lenscratch, Sleight of Hand, lenscratch.com, (Juror: Grant Gill, Editor of Lenscratch)
2016 Indian Photofest, Breaking Boundaries VI, Hyderabad, India.
2016 Auckland Festival of Photography, Breaking Boundaries VI, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 West. Far. West., Texas Tech School of Art at Chinati Weekend, Marfa, TX
2015 Ping Yao International Photography Festival, Breaking Boundaries VI, Pingyao, China (Juror: Susan Dooley, Chair, Nassau Community College, SUNY, NY)
AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming (artwork review) “Placing Displacement: Stacking Collapsing, and Staking by Yuna Kim” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Volume 9.1-2.
2024 (book chapter) “The CarbBasin Recipe Cards,” Nourish and Resist: Food and Transatlantic Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art, Editors: Leslie Wolff (Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida State Univ.) Hannah Ryan (Assistant Professor of Art History, St. Olaf College), Yale University Press
2022 “Cataloguing the Wolfcamp” New Media Art 2022, CICA Press.
2021 “Photographic Arts and Fake News.” Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers
2023 “Cataloguing the Wolfcamp”National Conference, Society of Photographic Educators, Denver, CO, March 16-18
2022 “Taming Taste: The CaribBasin Recipe Cards.” Nourish and Resist: Food an Feminisms in Global Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), Santiago, Chile, Dec 4-8
2022 “From Rooftop to Laptop: Photographic Art(ifice)” Fake News: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences, National Conference, Society of Photographic Educators, Virtual, Jan 22
SELECT EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2019-2023 Director, Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, UT Permian Basin Odessa, TX
2023 Seldom Seen by Everything Is Collective
2022 Common Occurrences: Four Korean Artists Living in the U.S, Artists: Sangmi Yoo (Professor, Texas Tech Univ.), Mizin Shin (Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester), Ray Im, Yuna Kim
2022 Water Works, collaborative exhibition with Ellen Noel Art Museum Artists:
2021 From the Inside Out Katie Hargrave (Associate Professor of Art Univ. of Tennessee Chattanooga), Meredith Laura Lynn (Assistant Curator, Florida State Univ. Tallahassee)
2021 On Island, solo exhibition by Philippine-based artist Lui Medina, interviewed by guest scholar Kevin Chua(PhD), (Associate Professor of Art History, Texas Tech Univ.)
2020 Balas y Jaulas, solo exhibition by Angel Cabrales (Associate Professor of Sculpture, Univ. Texas El Paso)
2020 Ground Truth, solo exhibition by art collective Julie Anand (Professor of Photography, Arizona State) and Damon Sauer
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2023 Story of Art in America (Season 3), Dir. Christelle Bois, as featured artist, Amazon Prime Video Streaming
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WOLFCAMP CATALGOUE
At first glance, a plastic sheet ensnared on roadside barbed wire, ripped and torn by the wind, might seem the farthest thing from the behemoth that is the oil industry. Yet Wolfcamp Catalogue, by refusing the comforts of documentary photography, engages in a structuralist, archival project that delves into the heart of the multifaceted phenomenon of petroleum in the West Texas Permian Basin. As the resurgence of shale oil has changed the terms of the global oil industry, it would seem that our visual world is secure: flip through a catalogue, buy the latest home appliance or sporting good. But with the growing elastic demand for oil, and unexpected shocks to the system, we find, more than ever, art’s urgent need to move beyond our “above ground” certainties, to excavate our “below ground” contradictions and desires. By recording traces and by following the medium, Amy Yeminne Kim grapples with the contingencies that haunt the world that has taken shape around that ubiquitous-yet-invisible, viscous substance we call “oil.” [Kevin Chua, PhD., Curator]
THE CARIBBASIN RECIPE CARDS (2022-ON GOING)
Going beyond national or
geographical borders of the Caribbean, I look for the Caribbean that becomes
present especially in and around the Permian Basin of Texas, one of the world’s
largest oil producers. Hybridity in Caribbean food emerged through forced
contacts across half of a millennia. I argue that recognizing this hybridity
leads us to seeing a ubiquitous Caribbean presence even in areas that may seem
unrelated like the Permian Basin of Texas. Can
anyone cook anything from these “recipe” cards? Probably not. But one can make
associations between the Caribbean and the Permian Basin of Texas, between food
and industry, between production and consumption, and between past and present. Works and related article is scheduled to be published in edited volume
Nourish
and Resist: Food and Transatlantic Feminism in Contemporary Global Caribbean
Art.
