Kim Ye (all pronouns, b. 1984, Beijing, China) is a Chinese American interdisciplinary artist whose research-based practice encompasses performance, sculpture, video, installation, text, and community organizing. She received her MFA from UCLA (2012), BA from Pomona College (2007), and has worked as a professional dominatrix in Los Angeles since 2011. Their work engages gendered constructions around power, taboo, and privacy by activating the artist/viewer dynamic to create situations of intimacy and exchange. Treating the body and its immediate surroundings as sites of resistance and aspiration, his praxis draws from frameworks emerging from queer, sex worker, and first-generation communities.
Ye has exhibited, screened, and performed widely nationally and internationally at institutions such as The Getty, Wattis Institute, Hammer Museum, Banff Center for Arts, Material Art Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and Frieze Film Seoul among others. She is currently the Co-Director of Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOPLA) and a Frankin Furnace FUND Recipient.
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