Amy Yeminne Kim

Amy Yeminne Kim is Assistant Professor of Photography at Hope College (Holland, MI). Wolfcamp Catalogue, her recent series, examines the West Texas based U.S. oil production with an anthropological eye. It was exhibited at the 2022 Houston Fotofest Biennale as a winner of the Texas Photographic Society National Award. It has since been awarded third place for PH Museum’s 2025 Photography Grant by an international jury. Her new mixed media project Viscous Empire aims to parse out the swamp of both subservient and dominating colonial attitudes. Amy has lived in South Korea, France, and Texas before returning to Michigan, her birth state. She holds two MFAs (Studio Art and Art Administration) from Texas Tech University and a BA in French from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.

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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