Mie Yim
Fractured self
Imagine yourself as a mosaic—each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.
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Mie Yim is a Korean-born, New York-based artist whose surreal, hybrid figures explore the fluidity of diasporic identity. She paints the in-between—between cultures, time, and self—blending memory and imagination into lush, psychological dreamscapes.
Her saturated, anthropomorphic forms reflect how memory mutates and how identity reshapes across borders. Rooted in her own journey from South Korea to the U.S., Yim’s work captures the strange beauty of being untethered yet resilient. It invites us to linger in liminal spaces—where transformation unfolds and identity remains in motion.
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Sheepwolf
Mie Yim’s "Sheepwolf" is a clash of textures and shapes, blending softness with sharpness, animal with machine. The overlapping forms suggest duality—comfort and danger, belonging and alienation. It’s a visual metaphor for navigating cultural hybridity, where identities are layered and constantly shifting, never settling into one fixed form.
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