Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night

Opens Feb 8, 2025

Three sets of parallel black lines on a white background, labeled "TBD," "TBC," and "TBA" from top to bottom.
Three sets of parallel black lines on a white background, labeled "TBD," "TBC," and "TBA" from top to bottom.

Christine Sun Kim, TBD TBC TBA, 2015. Charcoal on paper, 11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm). Private Collection. © Christine Sun Kim

Open: Feb 8–Jul, 2025
Member Previews: Feb 5–7, 2025

Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is the artist’s first major museum survey. Co-organized by the Whitney Museum and Walker Art Center, the exhibition foregrounds how Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) utilizes sound, language, and the complexities of communication in her wide-ranging approach to artmaking. All Day All Night brings together works spanning 2011 to the present and features drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures. Using musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—Kim has produced a body of work that is perceptive, poetic, humorous, and political. Inspired by similarly named works made at different moments in her career, the exhibition’s title, All Day All Night, points to the energy Kim brings to her artistic practice; she is relentlessly experimental, iterative, and dedicated to sharing her lived experiences with a broad spectrum of audiences.

This exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The organizing curators are Jennie Goldstein, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pavel Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy, Walker Art Center; and Tom Finkelpearl, independent curator; with Rose Pallone, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Walker Art Center.

Generous support for Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night is provided by the Ford Foundation, Teiger Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

       

Major support is provided by the Korea Foundation

In New York, generous support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo and the Whitney’s National Committee.

Major support is provided by Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins.

Significant support is provided by Further Forward Foundation and Girlfriend Fund.

Additional support is provided by Jessica and Marwan Bitar, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Suzanne McFayden, Alice and Manu Sareen, Gina H. Sohn and Gregory P. Lee, and Jackson Tang.



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