sunmi yong 용선미
of everything that is performance
bio
curatorial
gmtc- golden monkey trading company, 2025~
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 is a New York-based independent curator, producer, and translator (KOR-ENG) who approaches every realm of her practice as an extension of performance art.
In August 2025, she founded gmtc – golden monkey trading company 金猿商社 (https://gmtc.nyc) in Chinatown—a performance laboratory that functions as her primary, ongoing artwork. Conceived as a physical embodiment of ephemeralities, the space is a living threshold for performance: a site for conserving transient movements and dialogues. Through this vessel, she invites artists and practitioners, particularly those in migratory status, to navigate systemic scarcity by collectively interrogating the boundaries of the medium and the essential question of what constitutes performance.
Her institutional experience includes roles at the Seoul Museum of Art, Ob/Scene Festival (Seoul), and Performa Biennial 2023 (New York). Additionally, she was a curatorial resident at the Helsinki International Artist Program in 2024, supported by Arts Council Korea.
Yong has translated Somi Lee's Dictionary of Tangled Languages (2024) and Diana Taylor’s Performance Performance (2021), which received the Sejong Academic Book Award in 2022. As a writer, she also published an essay, Berliner (2017), and co-authored Art We Mind (2020).
Holding an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts on a Global Korea Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education, S.Korea and a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from Korea University, she has received multiple grants from the Arts Council Korea, the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and more to support her independent practices, including the co-founded online research platform greenroom.
In her free time, Yong loves exploring hidden food spots, watching Korean dating shows, or playing with her cat, Tonka.
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