sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance
bio
curatorial
dance series -
silent battle, 2025
material accumulation(s) / practice time, 2025
eumpa eumpa, 2023
if i can’t dance, i don’t want to be a part of your revolution, 2022
though we dance, 2021
lingerlingering, 2020
write or move on/around the perimeter of a rectangle, 2018
delivery garden & magazine 02, 2016
translation
fantasia of the archives, 2024
dictionary of tangled languages, 2023
performance performance, 2021
production
greenroom, 2019 - present
publication
art we mind, 2020
berliner, 2017
contribution
the third hour, 2023
newspaper, 2023
pcs 2021, 2021
residencies and institutional experiences
helsinki international artist program, 2024
performa, 2023
ob/scene festival, 2022
seoul museum of art, 2017
ayoung kim studio & national museum of modern and contemporary art korea, 2016
contact me here
yongsunmiii(at)gmail.com
Centered on performance, Sunmi Yong is an independent curator, producer, translator, and writer from Seoul, currently based in Harlem. With a whimsical flair, she collaborates with artists to explore a wide array of frictional movements in the minoritarian, quotidian, queer, diasporic, and microbial.
Notable curatorial projects include If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution at d/p in Seoul (2022) with artists Lyon Eun KWON, Ram Han, Hur Yeonhwa, Alex Tatarsky, Anh Vo, and Though We Dance, co-curated with Hyejung Jang at CosMo40 in Incheon (2021) with artists Inbai Kim, Gwangsoo Park, Ji Hye Yeom, Hanna Woo, Jayoung Yoon, Eunsae Lee, Mariana Valencia + Ohelen, Meg Stuart, Black Power Naps, and Tamar Ettun.
Yong has translated the books Dictionary of Tangled Languages written by Somi Lee and Performance Performance written by Diana Taylor, which won the Sejong Academic Book Award in 2022. As a writer, she also published an essay Berliner, and co-authored Art We Mind.
Holding an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts on a Global Korea Scholarship, she has received multiple grants from the Arts Council Korea and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture to support her independent practices, including the co-founded online research platform greenroom.
In New York, Yong learns American Sign Language, goes bouldering, or hangs with her cat Tonka while pursuing her curatorial projects.
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