Yeji Kim (she/her) is a NYC-based artist, designer, and art director who bakes killer sourdough; co-runs misplaced press, an independent publisher specializing in experimental books, zines + exhibitions, and looks out the window with her tuxedo cat, Mona.
Currently at Google/YouTube.
Past collaborators include: New York Times, Typographics, Poster House, Food Education Fund, National Audubon Society + Audubon Magazine, Nonhuman Teachers, Pratt Institute + Prattfolio, East Village Zine Fair, and Android XR at Google among others.
Full resumé can be found here.
Currently at Google/YouTube.
Past collaborators include: New York Times, Typographics, Poster House, Food Education Fund, National Audubon Society + Audubon Magazine, Nonhuman Teachers, Pratt Institute + Prattfolio, East Village Zine Fair, and Android XR at Google among others.
Full resumé can be found here.
EDUCATION
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BFA, The Cooper Union
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
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• New York Times Newsroom Fellowship, 2025–26
•The Leroy Neiman Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art, 2022
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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• GDUSA 2022 Students to Watch
• Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art
• George & Selma Klett Art Scholarship
• James Craig Designing with Type Award
PUBLICATIONS
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• A Most Exquisite Corpse, published by Figure Bound (available at Printed Matter and Bungee Space)
• Grid Drawings Vol 1 (available at Printed Matter)
FEATURES
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• Soft Times Quarterly: Volume 4 (Seasons), 2023
• Studio Ouch Magazine: Knickknacks—Artist Feature, 2022
EXHIBITIONS
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• Zines as Dialogue (Mishkin Gallery; New York, NY; 2026)
• No Vacancy (Brooklyn, NY; 2025)
• East Village Zine Fair (New York, NY; 2024)
• Clothesline Show (Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City, NY; 2023)
• Almost Heaven (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; 2022)
• Wife Swap (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; 2022)
• Girls Night (7 E 7th St; New York, NY; 2022)
• Fruit Flies (Solo Exhibition; 41 Cooper Sq. Gallery; New York, NY; 2022)
• River Show (Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Queens, NY; 2021)
• See Music, Hear Art (Kaufman Dance Studio at The Juilliard School; New York, NY; 2020)
TEACHING & LECTURES
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• The Cooper Union, Guest Lecturer and Critic for Interactive Design Studio (2025)
• Parsons School of Design at The New School, BFA Communications Design Guest Lecturer and Critic (2025)
• Journalism Panel for UTNY at The New York Times (2025)
• Park Avenue Armory, Advisory Board Zine Workshop (2025)
• Wesleyan University, Zine Talk with Misplaced Press (2025)
• The Cooper Union Saturday Program, Artist Talk (2025)
• The Drawing Center, Zine Workshop: The Way I See It (2024)
• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Texts, T-shirts, and Statements; Art on the Meadow Workshop (2024)
• Parsons School of Design at The New School, BFA Communications Design Guest Critic (2024)
• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Printmaking To-Go; Art on the Meadow Workshop at Ox-Bow School of Art (2023)
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BFA, The Cooper Union
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
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• New York Times Newsroom Fellowship, 2025–26
•The Leroy Neiman Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art, 2022
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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• GDUSA 2022 Students to Watch
• Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art
• George & Selma Klett Art Scholarship
• James Craig Designing with Type Award
PUBLICATIONS
–
• A Most Exquisite Corpse, published by Figure Bound (available at Printed Matter and Bungee Space)
• Grid Drawings Vol 1 (available at Printed Matter)
FEATURES
–
• Soft Times Quarterly: Volume 4 (Seasons), 2023
• Studio Ouch Magazine: Knickknacks—Artist Feature, 2022
EXHIBITIONS
–
• Zines as Dialogue (Mishkin Gallery; New York, NY; 2026)
• No Vacancy (Brooklyn, NY; 2025)
• East Village Zine Fair (New York, NY; 2024)
• Clothesline Show (Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City, NY; 2023)
• Almost Heaven (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; 2022)
• Wife Swap (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; 2022)
• Girls Night (7 E 7th St; New York, NY; 2022)
• Fruit Flies (Solo Exhibition; 41 Cooper Sq. Gallery; New York, NY; 2022)
• River Show (Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Queens, NY; 2021)
• See Music, Hear Art (Kaufman Dance Studio at The Juilliard School; New York, NY; 2020)
TEACHING & LECTURES
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• The Cooper Union, Guest Lecturer and Critic for Interactive Design Studio (2025)
• Parsons School of Design at The New School, BFA Communications Design Guest Lecturer and Critic (2025)
• Journalism Panel for UTNY at The New York Times (2025)
• Park Avenue Armory, Advisory Board Zine Workshop (2025)
• Wesleyan University, Zine Talk with Misplaced Press (2025)
• The Cooper Union Saturday Program, Artist Talk (2025)
• The Drawing Center, Zine Workshop: The Way I See It (2024)
• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Texts, T-shirts, and Statements; Art on the Meadow Workshop (2024)
• Parsons School of Design at The New School, BFA Communications Design Guest Critic (2024)
• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Printmaking To-Go; Art on the Meadow Workshop at Ox-Bow School of Art (2023)