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Kimberly Ye is an artist and writer whose work traverses film, performance, sculpture, and social practice. Engaging gendered constructs of power, labor, and taboo, Ye’s practice navigates the tension between private desire and public discourse, and roots in the overlap between her various sex worker, Asian diaspora, and caregiver communities. The work often inserts the artist and their kin into popular cultural forms, transposing the forces that reproduce normativity.
Recently, Ye has been a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow, Franklin Furnace Fund awardee, and a Mellon Arts Fellow at Stanford University. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), Foundation for Contemporary Art (USA), Mellon Foundation (USA), and The Australia Council for the Arts (Australia). Ye’s work has been featured nationally and internationally at institutions such as The Getty, MOCA, Guggenheim Gallery, Wattis Institute, Hammer Museum, Banff Center for Arts, Material Art Fair, and Frieze Film Seoul, among others. Ye received her MFA from UCLA, and is the Co-director of Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOPLA).
