Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles
Artist Anicka Yi and curator Jamillah James will discuss aspects of Anicka’s multi-disciplinary practice and reflect on contemporary art and culture. Please join us for an engaging discussion.
Anicka Yi's practice relates to synthetic biology, bio engineering, extinction, and bio fiction. Her work examines concepts of 'the biopolitics of the senses' or how assumptions and anxieties related to gender, race, and class shape physical perception. Anicka Yi lives and works in New York City. Recent institutional solo exhibitions of her work include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel; Kunsthalle Basel; List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York;and The Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2016, she was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize. Yi has screened her film, The Flavor Genome, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2017. Yi’s work is included in numerous public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Jamillah James is Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, working in collaboration with the nonprofit Art + Practice; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Queens Museum, Flushing, New York; and independently organized exhibitions, performances, screenings, and public programs throughout the US and Canada since 2004. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations of Rafa Esparza, Abigail DeVille, Sarah Cain, Simone Leigh, Alex Da Corte, Michele O’Marah, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. James is currently working on major solo exhibitions of B. Wurtz, Nayland Blake, and Rebecca Morris, as well as the group exhibition The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies 1970-Present (2020). Her writing credits include texts for Artforum, The International Review of African American Art, and recent exhibition catalogue essays and interviews with artists Diamond Stingily, Barbara Hammer, Nina Chanel Abney, and Brenna Youngblood, among others. James regularly lectures on contemporary art, curating, and professional development for emerging artists, and is a visiting critic in the graduate department at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.
