Anicka Yi (b. 1971, Seoul; lives and works in New York City) has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions around the world, including Karmic Debt (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, 2025); There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One (UCCA, Beijing, 2025; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, 2024); “Metaspore” (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022); Hyundai Commission: Anicka Yi: In Love With the World (Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2021); Life Is Cheap (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017); Jungle Stripe (Fridericianum, Kassel, 2016); 7,070,430K of Digital Spit (Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 2015), You Can Call Me F (The Kitchen, New York, 2015).

Group exhibition highlights include New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019), the 58th Venice Biennale May You Live In Interesting Times (Venice, 2019), “The Body Electric” (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2019), The Dream of Forms (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017), 2017 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017), The Eighth Climate (What does art do?) (11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2016), and Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then (12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, 2013).

She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize (2016) and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2011). Yi’s works are included in several public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Julia Stoscheck Collection, Dusseldorf; the Rubell Family Collection; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.