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 Korea during the height of the violent democratic protests. Because of this experience, I examine 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 between 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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Suspension of Disbelief

This project was made partly in response to Susan Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation and my questions about meaning in an art piece. I was becoming more interested in how we perceive than the hermeneutics in a formal analysis. This inquiry into perception developed into a broader survey into how we experience the photographic medium. No Windows (2017) resulted from this line of questioning. The images were taken in my studio in Slaton, TX as I shot nine hundred images quickly and intuitively.