Anicka Yi

Force Majeure, 2017
Plexiglas, aluminum, agar, bacteria, refrigeration system, LED lights, glass, epoxy resin,
powder coated stainless steel, light bulbs, digital clocks, silicone, and silk flowers
Photo: Joerg Lohse.

About

Courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Photo by Lorenzo Palmieri.

Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in New York City. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including Leeum, Seoul, South Korea (2024); Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana (2023); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022); the Hyundai Commission, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2021); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); Kunsthalle Basel, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (MASS.), and The Kitchen, New York (2015); the Cleveland Museum of Art (2014). Yi has also participated in significant group shows, including the Venice Biennale (2019); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2017); the Okayama Art Summit, the Gwangju Biennale (2016); the Taipei Biennial (2014); the Lyon Biennale (2013). Important prizes won by Yi include The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2011) and the Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize (2016).

Exhibitions

Publications

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The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century: Anicka Yi, “You Can Call Me F,” 2015

ARTnews

Emily Watlington

March 5, 2025

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Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One

The Brooklyn Rail

Min Park

January 30, 2025

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The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger

August 29, 2023

‘I Grew Up in a Very Pungent Home’: Watch Artist Anicka Yi Deep Fry Flowers as Part of Her Multi-Sensory, Biopolitical Practice

Artnet

June 29, 2023

‘You Have to Experience It in the Radical Present’: How Anicka Yi’s Ultra-Sensorial Tate Commission Resists the Age of Instagram Art”

Artnet

Naomi Rei

October 13, 2021

The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi

The New York Times

Tess Thackara

October 11, 2021

‘I’m Very, Very Squeamish With Culture’

ArtReview

Gary Zhexi Zhang

October 11, 2021

Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with science, scent and intrigue

Wallpaper*

Nick Compton

October 11, 2021

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