Anicka Yi
Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist who works in fragrances. Her works include boiling shredded Teva sandals in recalled powdered milk, stretcher frames of soap, and mixtures of stainless steel shower heads and fish-oil pills “arranged into something elegantly allegorical about the various industries that constitute our identity.“[1]Anicka Yi lives and works in New York.
Her work involves scent, tactility and perishability as a means to reconfigure the epistemological and sensorial terms of a predominantly visual art world.[2] In her 2015 show at The Kitchen in New York City, You Can Call Me F, Anicka took swabs from 100 women and with the help of MIT synthetic biologist Tal Danino cultivated the bacteria in an agar billboard that “assaults visitors” to help answer the question “What does feminism smell like?"[3]
Her work has been compared to Joseph Beuys.[4] Yi was the winner of the biannual 2016 Hugo Boss Prize presented by the Guggenheim.[5]
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Divorce, 47 Canal, New York
- Denial, Lars Friedrich, Berlin
- SOUS-VIDE, 47 Canal, New York
- Excuse Me, Your Necklace Is Leaking, Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Group exhibitions
- 2017 Whitney Biennial
- 12th Biennale de Lyon
- Studiolo, Zurich
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)
- White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
- Sculpture Center, New York
- White Columns, New York
- West Street Gallery
Award
References
- ↑ David Everitt Howe, “Anicka Yi”, 2014 FutureGreat”, ArtReview, March 2014]
- ↑ “Anicka Yi” Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine. Focus, frieze, January 2014]
- ↑ Lauren O'Neill-Butler, “Anicka Yi – The Kitchen”, Artforum, March 2015]
- ↑ Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Anicka Yi”, Interview, 2014]
- ↑ "Anicka Yi Wins $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize 2016 | artnet News". artnet News. 2016-10-21. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ↑ "Transformer Station".