sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance

bio

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curatorial  
      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, 2024
      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
Sunmi Yong, based in Harlem, is a curator, producer, translator, and writer from Seoul whose performance-centered work explores the frictional movements of minoritarian, quotidian, and microbial experiences.

Notable curatorial projects include Silent Battle, a performance repertoire created in collaboration with Hyeree Ro and Hong Seung-Hye, and 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, and Anh Vo.

Yong has translated Somi Lee's Dictionary of Tangled Languages and Diana Taylor’s Performance Performance, which received 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 her free time, Yong learns American Sign Language, goes bouldering, or spends time with her cat, Tonka. 

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