Ayoung Kim. Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse
This catalog was published in conjunction with Kim’s 2024 exhibition ACC: Future Prize 2024, Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse. The work follows female delivery drivers En Storm and Ernst Mo (whose names are anagrams of “monster”). Featuring live-action footage from actors in real locations, the works—which Kim describes as “pandemic fiction”—center labor within the gig economy, which skyrocketed in both Korea and the US during recent years.  

National Asian Culture Center | 228 pages | paperback | 150 color images

Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over

Published to accompany the exhibition Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over at Hamburger Bahnhof, where Kim drew from her "Delivery Dancer" universe. Her subjects cross the boundaries of possible realities, creating intersections between times and spaces. The exhibition extended Kim’s virtual landscapes  into the physical museum space, completely transforming the gallery’s topology.

Silvana Editoriale | Paperback | 112 Pg | 57 Color 

Ayoung Kim. Synthetic Storyteller

The 2025 revised edition of "Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller" is the first and most comprehensive monograph encompassing the artist’s eighteen-year trajectory.

The 2024 edition brought together critical essays by Wonhwa Yoon, Jinshil Lee, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Nanna Heidenreich, and Chien-Hung Huang, alongside scripts and texts by the artist herself, and a selection of works from 2007 to 2022. The new edition incorporates recent works and exhibition views, plus an updated interview with the artist. Korean and English language sections function as independent publications, joined at the center by full-page images of Kim’s works that bridge the two halves.

"Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller” | Edited by Gye Taek Gon (James Gui) | Designed by Shin Shin | The Floorplan, 2025 | Softcover | 400 pages | English, Korean

Ayoung Kim (Korean, b. 1979), based in Seoul, works with video, virtual reality, sound, and text to create narratives that collide geopolitics, synthesize mythologies, and interrogate technologies.