Ayoung Kim weaves reality anew through a tapestry of hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, technoprecarity, and speculative temporalities into her work. The outcomes of synthesized narratives result in far-reaching speculation, establishing connections between biopolitics and border controls, the memories of stones and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures across various media. Her practice incorporates discourses on optical and post-optical media, performativity, game simulation, and the narrativity of fiction. Kim often depicts entities whose resistance or misalignment leaves behind strange and singular traces as they deviate from prescribed trajectories.

Kim’s works have been presented at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2025); Tate Modern, London (2025); The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, (2025); Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2025); Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2025); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2025); ACMI, Melbourne (2024); MoMA, New York (2024); M+, Hong Kong (2024); C-LAB, Taipei (2024); FACT, Liverpool (2024); Sharjah Biennial (2023); Ars Electronica, Linz (2023); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung (2021); Berlin International Film Festival (2020); Busan Biennale (2020); Gwangju Biennale (2018); Palais de Tokyo (2016); and the Venice Biennale (2015), among others.

She has received the LG Guggenheim Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (2025); the ACC Future Prize from the National Asian Culture Center, Korea (2024); the Golden Nica Award at Prix Ars Electronica, Austria (2023); and the Terayama Shoji Prize at the Image Forum Festival, Japan (2023). She was a supported artist for the Korea Artist Prize (2019) and a recipient of the Young Artist of the Year Award, Ministry of Culture, Korea (2015).

Her works are in the collections of the MoMA, US; Tate museums, UK; ACMI, Australia; Frac Lorraine, France; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Kadist Foundation, US; the MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Korea, and the Leeum Museum of Art, Korea, to name a few.