Yeji Kim (she/her) is a NYC-based artist, bookmaker, and graphic designer who bakes killer sourdough, co-runs misplaced press, an independent publisher specializing in experimental books, zines, and exhibitions, helps organize the East Village Zine Fair, volunteers at 8-Ball Community, and looks out the window with her tuxedo cat, Mona.

Past collaborators include: Typographics, UCLA Luskin School of Social Affairs, Herb Lubalin Center for Typography and Design, Poster House, Food Education Fund, Partner & Partners, Museum Hue, National Audubon Society, Fishbowl (film), and Nonhuman Teachers, among others.

Full resumé can be found here.

EDUCATION
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BFA, The Cooper Union

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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• Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art
• The Leroy Neiman Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art
• George & Selma Klett Art Scholarship
• James Craig Designing with Type Award

FEATURES
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• Soft Times Quarterly: Volume 4 (Seasons)
• GDUSA 2022 Students to Watch
• Studio Ouch Magazine: Knickknacks—Artist Feature

EXHIBITIONS
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• Clothesline Show (Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City, NY; Oct 2023)
• Almost Heaven (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; Aug 2022)
• Wife Swap (Ox-Bow School of Art; Saugatuck, MI; Jun 2022)
• Girls Night (7 E 7th St; New York, NY; Apr 2022)
• Fruit Flies (Solo Exhibition; 41 Cooper Sq. Gallery; New York, NY; Mar 2022)
• River Show (Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Queens, NY; Aug 2021)
• See Music, Hear Art (Kaufman Dance Studio at The Juilliard School; New York, NY; Feb 2020)

TEACHING
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• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Texts, T-shirts, and Statements; Art on the Meadow Workshop (2024, forthcoming)
• 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)