Amy Yeminne Kim
I am an artist working in photography and installation. Before my long stay as a Texas resident, I grew up in South Koera during the height of often violent democratic protests. I am interested in modern day geopolitics through the lens of the oil extraction craze in West Texas. My work is informed by photo history and theory, the promises and failures of the photographic medium, and my shifting identities as a Korean and as an American. 2025 PH Museum Grant 3rd place. Author and artist of “Basin Recipe Cards,” Nourish and Resist, Yale Univ. Press. 2024.
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Photo Expo
Photo Expo (2019) renders visible the ideas I present in the Fake News chapter. An on-going web- and installation-based project, the work borrows aesthetics from commercial expositions. Here, photos are less documentative and more bodily. I present Photo Expo in a manner accessible for all with installations meant to be interactive, experiential, and entertaining. Viewers, for instance, can walk on the images, eat the images printed on an Expo Cake, or see themselves in the video and projection live feed. Photo Expo asks us to experience photography. The exhibition was conceived as my MFA thesis exhibition in 2018 funded by two competitive fellowships totaling $5,000. It has since been exhibited at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier gallery at UT Permian Basin