sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance
bio
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 or sunmi(at)gmtc-nyc.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 realms situated on the peripheries.
Yong is also a founder and director of a newly established performance laboratory, gmtc - golden monkey trading company 金猿商社, nestled in Chinatown, New York City. It aims to support migratory movements by seeking alternative ways to create, produce, and present performance art.
link: https://gmtc.nyc
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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