sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance

bio

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curatorial  
dance series -
      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

et al. -
      greenroom, 2019 - present
      eumpa eumpa, 2023
      delivery garden & magazine 02, 2016
 
production
      performa, 2023
      ob/scene festival, 2022

translation 
      (forth coming) fantasia of the archives, 2024
      dictionary of tangled languages, 2023
      performance performance, 2021

publication
      art we mind, 2020
      berliner, 2017

contribution
      the third hour, 2023
      newspaper, 2023
      pcs 2021, 2021  

other institutional experiences and residences
       (forth coming) helsinki international artist program, 2024
      seoul museum of art, 2017      
      ayoung kim studio & national museum of modern and contemporary art korea, 2016
      

Sunmi Yong is an independent curator, producer, translator, and writer from Seoul, currently based in Harlem. Through the lens of performance, she explores movements encountered in the quotidian and whimsically delivers them in her works. Collaborating across disciplines, she stages her performative ideas primarily on printed materials. 

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 practice, 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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