Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood with artist Kim Ye

March 5, 2026 by Juan Sebastian

In December 2025, Kim Ye was featured as artist and author in Theatre Journal (Volume 77, Issue 4), published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The article, titled “Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, a Studio Visit with Kim Ye,” documents a wide-ranging conversation about Ye’s interdisciplinary performance practice and her ongoing film project, Mother-Fucker. […]

Categories: 2025, conversation, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: A Costco Shopper Analysis, December 2025, DOMestication, Issue 4, jhuptheatre.org, kim ye interview, Los Angeles contemporary art, Mother-Fucker, Theatre Journal, U Up?, Volume 77

Pleasers

June 5, 2025 by admin

PLEASERS will be on view at the Mendocino Art Center from June 14 – July 6, 2025. It features the work of Kim Ye, Adrian Clutario, and Vincent Chong, and is curated by Dav Bell, director of the MAC. Reception: June 14th from 5-7pm Location: 45200 Little Lake St in Mendocino, CA 95460 Gallery hours: Thurs-Mon @ […]

Categories: 2025, 3 person exhibition, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: adrian clutario, Kim Ye, mendocino art center, Pleasers, vincent chong

Puerperal: A Conversation on Postpartum Aesthetics

May 25, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On June 15, 2025, artist Kim Ye will join a panel of artists and curators at Compound in Long Beach, CA, for Postpartum Aesthetics in Art and Practice, a special symposium convened by exhibiting artist Fay Ray. The day-long event will include two panel discussions exploring the visual and material language of the postpartum experience, […]

Categories: 2025, conversation, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Aj Girard, Analia Saban, Cèsar García-Alvarez, Compound, Fay Ray, Grace Aneiza Ali, Laura Copelin, Postpartum Aesthetics, the compound, The Compound Long Beach

Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

May 15, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On May 29th, 2025, a rough cut of The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting will be screened as part of the 8th day of programming at the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The festival brings together filmmakers, artists, activists, and community members to spotlight the diverse and complex lives of […]

Categories: 2025, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: Angelica Ross, Bambi Lake, California Arts Council, Cinnamon Maxxine, Community Partners, Creative Corps, Daisy Ducati, Kim Ye, Miss Honey Pink, Rachel Wotton, San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

6 Sex Worker Books for your Reading List

May 14, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On May 13th, 2025, Kim Ye’s publication ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting was featured in Tryst’s curated list of essential sex worker-authored books. The article, titled “6 Sex Worker Books for Your Reading List,” celebrates recent literary contributions by sex workers that challenge stigma and center lived experience. ProMomme is an anthology curated […]

Categories: 2025, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: California Arts Council, Ceyenne Doroshow, Community Partners, Creative Corps, Emi Koyama, Juno Mac, Karma Chávez, Kim Ye, Kitty Stryker, Molly Smith, Tryst

m0mmy brain marketplace

February 1, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

KIM YE m0mmy brain marketplace Feb 10 – March 20, 2025 Guggenheim Gallery On Sunday, February 16, 2025, from 3–6 pm, Chapman University’s Guggenheim Gallery will host an artist reception for Kim Ye: m0mmy brain marketplace, a solo exhibition by Kim Ye. Through performance, video, installation, objects, and text, Kim Ye examines themes of consumption, domesticity, […]

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What’s My Thesis?

January 20, 2025 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

What’s My Thesis? February 1 – March 20, 2025 Group Exhibition at The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion Curated around the podcast What’s My Thesis?, hosted by Javier Proenza, the exhibition brings together artists who explore the insights they have gained through their artistic practices. Showcased in the Main Gallery, this dynamic exhibition features a […]

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Kim Ye is ProMomme on No Shame Podcast

December 1, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, No Shame presents Kim Ye in a conversation about her life and work as an artist that addresses the intersection of sex work, domestic labor, motherhood. Throughout the conversation, Kim Ye and host Rebecca Woolf discuss the relationship between dominance, and submission, caretaking and autonomy, rebellion and acquiescence—all of which […]

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Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice

November 2, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing Friday, November 15, 2025 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m 2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 Hosted by The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law, in collaboration with If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, Movement for Family Power, and the Gender Journal, […]

Categories: 2024, appearances, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Amanda Wallace, berkeley law, Dorothy Roberts, Gender Journal, If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, Kim Ye, Movement for Family Power, Operation Stop CPS, ProMomme, Promomme: a sex workers guide to parenting, reproductive justice, sex worker abortion navigation services, Sex workers outreach project los angeles, SWANS, SWANS SWOPLA, SWOPLA, The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, UC Berkeley Law

U Up?

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 4-5 pm, A snippet of  U Up?, a multi-media VJ set by Kim Ye, is to be shown during The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group presentation of Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood over Zoom.  During this piece, Kim Ye takes the viewer on a psychosexual journey via […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Content Warning:Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Kim Ye, Stanford university, Stanford's Center for Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group

CONTENT WARNING: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 2024, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group will conduct a studio visit and artist talk with Kim Ye titled Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, on East Asian femininity, erotic labor, and the collision of the domestic with the apocalyptic. This virtual event will take place from […]

Categories: 2024, artist presentation, conversation, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: & Sex Work Working Group, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Asian American Research Center, Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Kim Ye, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Transpacific & Asian American Art Working Group, UC Berkeley Performance Studies, Zihan Loo

The Whore Gaze: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

  On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, from 2-5 pm, LACE Screening Room will present THE WHORE GAZE: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty, a film project curated by Elizabeth Dayton and Kim Ye at the Philosophical Research Society at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Drawing on filmmaker PJ Starr and activist Sonyka […]

Categories: 2024, collaboration, conversation, curatorial projects, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: Ayushi Shriamwar, Chichi Castillo, Elizabeth Dayton, Eva Wu, Hers is Ours Collective, Kim Ye, LACE Screening Room, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, May May Peltier, Naomi Fleur Jahan, Neda Chaturvedi, Philosophical Research Society, PJ Starr, Sonyka Francis, Taihr Ahmed Quereshis, Yin Q, Yoon Grace Ra

There is No Sincerity Without Irony

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Saturday, May 11th, 2024, from 4-6 pm, the AHL Foundation Inc. will open the 2024 AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Exhibition: There Is No Sincerity Without Irony, at the AHL Foundation Gallery located at 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030 (corner of 139th Street). The opening will feature a performance by Kyoung […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: AHL Foundation, Hyeree Ro, Jiwon Rhie, Joyce Chung, Kakyoung Lee, Kim Ye, Kristina Wong, Kyoung eun Kang, Sara Jimenaz

Where is Your Body

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Where is Your Body”  will be exhibited at  SOMArts from April 25th, 2024 – May 24th, 2024.  Curated by Delaney Chieyen Holton, “Where is Your Body” gathers women/trans/queer artists of API diasporic experience engaged in practices of the body to explore questions of labor, memory, and desire. “Where is Your Body”, addresses the body – […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: APICC, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Delaney Chieyen Holton, Edi Dai, Erina Alejo, Hailey Loman, Kayla Tange, Kim Ye, Learning Palestine, Nibha Akireddy, Private Practices Collection, Rachel Youn, Ruka Kashiwagi, Sholeh Asgary, SoMa San Francisco, Thuong Hoai Tran

Working Girls Press

January 22, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Working Girls Press, founded in 2023 by Molly B Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, is set to release their inaugural issue, “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine.”  The edition will be available as an ebook as well as a paperback. “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Kim Ye, Molly B Simmons, Working Girls Press

Challenging dominant narratives: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles

January 8, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Challenging dominant narratives, interrupting objectification, and queer creativity: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles”  Published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies Authored by Wei Si Nic Yiu, Lauren Levitt, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, and Ashley Madness. This research paper co-authored by Kim Ye with support from SWOPLA, draws on queer of color critique and […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: academic journal article, Ashley Madness, Feed the Fam, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, Lauren Levitt, peer reviewed research, Research paper, Sex workers outreach project los angeles, Shanisia Person, SWOP Los Angeles, SWOPLA, Wei Si Nic Yiu

Fellowship: Stanford 2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow

September 18, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been elected to join Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 2023-2024 Mellon Arts Fellowship cohort. Kim Ye will join an extraordinary pool of artists and art practitioners committed to the artistic lives of communities of color from across California. Other 2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts fellows include Rodrigo Reyes […]

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Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps

August 17, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been selected to receive a year-long California Arts Council’s CA Creative Corps Fellowship. Kim Ye engages in a multi-disciplinary, research-based practice that engages gendered constructions around power, and the entanglement between public space and private desire. Through their Fellowship, Kim Ye will work with SWOPLA to address social justice and community engagement […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: CA Creative Corps Artist, California Arts Council, California Healthy Places Index, Community Partners, Culture Bearer Fellowship, Fellowship, Los Angeles, Orange County

Interlude Artist Residency

August 12, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

  Interlude Artist Residency welcomes Kim Ye in August 2023 to work in a wide range of mediums. Kim Ye is to be provided with support during their residency to explore and expand their practice, which encompasses performance, sculpture, video, installation, text, and community organizing. Interlude Artist Residency, founded in 2019 by Elsie Kagan, is […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, Residency • Tags: artist families, Elsie Kagan, Family friendly artit residency, Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley arts, Interlude Artist Residency, Kim Ye

The Feminist Curse: Volume VII, Summer ’23

July 28, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“The Feminist Curse,” Kim Ye’s essay on motherhood, eroticism, and domestic gender parity written from the point of view of a sex worker raising a boy is published in Petit Mort Magazine, Volume VII, Summer 2023. The essay is accompanied by black and white photographs taken by Mark McKnight of Kim Ye and her 6-month-old […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: Allie Oops, Bardot Smith, Kim Ye, Lily Vivier, Mark McKnight, Mason Rose, Matthew Camp, Penelope Dario, Petit Mort Magazine, The Feminist Curse

The Greenhouse Project at UCSC

June 4, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

  On Sunday, June 4th, 2023 at 3 PM, Kim Ye will be giving a performative lecture at The Greenhouse Project on food, fertility, and border control through an analysis of the typical Costco shopper: a 39 y/o Asian American married woman who has a 4-degree or higher level of education, and makes over $125k/year. […]

Categories: 2023, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Center for Agroecology, Center for Agroecology at UCSC, conversation, Costco shopper analysis, Dav Bell, Kim Ye, L Gilbert, Performance, Performative Lecture, Santa Cruz, The Greenhouse Project, UCSC, UCSC Art, University of California at Santa Cruz

DOMestication screening at The Roxie

May 18, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

  DOMestication is a film created by Kim Ye, directed by Maegan La Trese Philmore, and edited by Jessica Schilling. Inspired by the genre of bridal reality television, this piece chronicles Ye’s wedding to her partner through interviews with the artist, and her friends and family. In tracing the roots of Ye’s reluctance to wed, […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: DOMestication, Film, Jessica Schiling, Kim Ye, Maegan La Trese Philmore, San Francisco Bay Area, Sex Workers Film & Arts Festival, Wedding

KCHUNG PUBLIC: Labor

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

KCHUNG PUBLIC, founded in 2011, invites visitors to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA at 152 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 on May 13th, 2023, from 2 pm to 6 pm, to enjoy performances, installations, and publications inspired by the Los Angeles Labor Union (also founded in 2011). This program is part of KCHUNG […]

Categories: 2023, event or performance, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news, Residency • Tags: Alan Nakagawa, Alejandra Herrera Silva with Trinidad McMurry Herrera, Alex Sloane, Amelia Charter, Artzenkraft, Haleigh Nickerson, installation, KChung Radio residency, Kim Zumfe, Llano del Rio Collective, Los Angeles contemporary art, Los Angeles Labor Union, MOCA, Nicholas Phillips, performance art, publications

Vibrant Cities Art Grant Award

May 13, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

In June 2023, Kim Ye was awarded a grant from Vibrant Cities Art Grant. This financial support will provide Kim Ye with the means to engage in whatever artistic endeavors they wish to pursue, to research and develop ideas, embark on projects, and complete projects already underway. The Vibrant Cities Arts Grant 2023 is designed […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: Arts Development Fee Program, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Vibrant Cities Art Grant

Asian Arts Initiative Residency

April 7, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Digital Diasporas, founded by yáo collaborative in 2021, is a distributed, remote residency that gives artists the space to research, cultivate their practice, and convene across borders. Digital Diasporas is a spacious opportunity for artists to do deep thinking and form cross-border connections without the pressure of producing a final product. The final selections for the […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, news, Residency • Tags: Asian Arts Initiative, Beau Lai, Digital Diasporas residency, Kim Ye, Los Angeles, Winnie Cheung, yáo collaborative

Home LA: Venice

March 14, 2023 by Zac Chen

HomeLA produces site-specific interdisciplinary performance events in private residences. This Venice iteration takes place at the long-time canal-side home of Mark Mack and Faiza Alhassoun, and features the work of artists Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye, Emily Marchand, Jobel Medina, Flora Wiegmann & Maya Gurantz, and Stephanie Dai. This HomeLA event explores the intersection […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: Architecture, Dance, Emily Marchand, Faiza Alhassoun, Flora Wiegmann, HomeLA, Jobel Medina, Kim Ye, Mark Mack, Matrilineal Ambivalences (in Venice), Maya Gurantz, Performance, performance art, Public and private space, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Site-specific performance, Stephanie Dai, venice beach, Young Joon Kwak, Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye

Binge Watch—Excessive Eating—Performances

December 22, 2022 by Zac Chen

“Binge Watch—On Performances of Excessive Eating” is written by Lydia Horne, explores the concept of binge-watching by exploring the works of Kim Ye and Laura Ohio. The text initiates a discussion on the fascination with and discomfort around taboo topics like self-harm, domestic violence, and excessive consumption. The artist Kim Ye, who performs eating as […]

Categories: 2022, EVERYTHING, news, press • Tags: abjection, ASMR, binge-watching, curiosity, excessive eating, Kim Ye, Laura Ohio, Les Petites Morts, Lizzy, pancreatic cancer, performance art, pleasure, shame, voyeurism

FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh

November 5, 2022 by admin

FAIL SAFE: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh Friday & Saturday, November 11 – 12, 2022 8:00pm with ASL Interpretation Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave. Pay What Moves You: $15 – $35 BUY TICKETS HERE! Fail-Safe is a recurring variety performance show which brings together artists exploring performance across disciplines to present new experimental projects in […]

Categories: 2022, collaboration, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Angela Washko, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, Caroline Yoo, FAIL-safe, Fail-Safe and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Fail-Safe: Los Angeles x Pittsburgh, Formosa (Jellyfish), Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Goofy Toof, Jesse Stiles, Kelly strayhorn theater, London Williams, Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak, MICHIYAYA Dance featuring Anya Clarke-Verdery, Rites of Matrilineal Dissent, Samira Mendoza and Davine Byon, Scott Andrew, Swampwalk, The National Endowment for the Arts, Xina Xurner, Young Joon Kwak and Kim Ye

Frieze Seoul 2022

August 25, 2022 by admin

Curated by two international art non-profits, GYOPO (Los Angeles) and WESS (Seoul), Frieze Film at Frieze Seoul 2022 will span two locations near Gyeongbokgung Palace, Together Together and Magjib. Titled I Am My Own Other, this program of ten films explores the effects of technology on the ideation of self; the framing of nationhood; societal conformity; and gender and […]

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Dear Mother,

July 31, 2022 by admin

Dear Mother,  Organized by Kayla Tange & Caroline Yoo LA Artcore August 4- August 21, 2022 August 13th, 2022 @ 6-8PM: Poetry Reading by Julayne Lee and Thank You for Your Service by Kim Ye     An adoptee searching for her birth mother. A daughter trying to converse with her immigrant mother. A journey […]

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