Simone Subal Gallery

Basel Social Club

Mie Yim

June 13 - 19, 2022

We are pleased to participate in the first edition of the Basel Social Club, with a solo presentation of paintings by Mie Yim.

Referencing topics as varied as the Italian Renaissance, manga comics, and Kublai Khan, Mie Yim’s hallucinatory paintings appear to pulsate ever closer towards dazzling entropy. Her imagery undulates between manic abstraction and uncanny figuration – playful utopian architectures intermingle with eyes, breasts, organs, and bestial representations of warriors, both real and fictitious. By turning her subjects upside down and inside out Yim embarks on an arduous existential journey, confronting the nuanced relationship vulnerability has to power and eating her own feelings along the way. Mie Yim (b. 1963, South Korea) currently lives and works in New York City.

<em>Cumulus-Pink</em>, 2022. Oil on canvas. 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm). Photo by: Luke Aron Ebora.

Cumulus-Pink, 2022. Oil on canvas. 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm). Photo by: Luke Aron Ebora.

<em>Cumulus-Blue</em>, 2022. Oil on canvas. 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm). Photo by: Luke Aron Ebora.

Cumulus-Blue, 2022. Oil on canvas. 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm). Photo by: Luke Aron Ebora.

Mie Yim was born in South Korea and lives and works in New York City. Upcoming solo shows include: Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2023, forthcoming). Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include: Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT (2022); Galeria Mascota, CDMX, Mexico (2022); Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, Spain (2021); Olympia Gallery, New York, NY (2021); the Durst Foundation, New York, NY (2019); Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018); Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY (2009); Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (2004); Galerie in Arco, Torino, Italy (2004). Selected group exhibitions include: Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2022, 2020, 2017); Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL (2021); LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA (2021); AB Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2021); Olympia Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Provincetown Art & Assoc. Museum, Provincetown, MA (2019); Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY (2019); Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2018); 326 Gallery, New York, NY (2018); The visual & Performing Arts Center, Western Conn. University, Danbury, Conn (2018); Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY (2017); Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (2017); BRIC Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Mrs. Gallery, Queens, NY (2017); McKinsey & Company, New York, NY (2016); Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Mark Borghi Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Ground floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); LABspace, HIllsdale, NY (2016); Bronx River Art Center, NY (2015); Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY (2006); The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2003, 1993); Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (2000); and the Bronx Museum, New York, NY (1991). Yim has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2020); the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant (2018); the New York Foundation of the Arts Painting Fellowship (2021, 2015); and the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (1991).