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
Select Press
The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century: Anicka Yi, “You Can Call Me F,” 2015
ARTnews ↗Emily Watlington
March 5, 2025
Download PDF ↓Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One
The Brooklyn Rail ↗Min Park
January 30, 2025
Download PDF ↓‘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
Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with science, scent and intrigue
Wallpaper* ↗Nick Compton
October 11, 2021
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