Anicka Yi was born in 1971 in Seoul, Korea, and currently lives and works in New York. She has held solo exhibitions at major arts institutions, including her first large-scale outdoor site-specific installation at Storm King Art Center in New York (2026), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2025), Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Korea (2024), a commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London (2021), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2017), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and The Kitchen in New York (2015).

Yi is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2011) and the Hugo Boss Prize (2016). Anicka Yi's works is held in the collections of numerous major international art institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Pinault Collection in Paris.

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