Half Memory, Twice Remembered: Korean Artists from the Yale School of Art
July 9 – 24, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, July 9, 6-8pm
We are pleased to present Half Memory, Twice Remembered: Korean Artists from the Yale School of Art, a group exhibition bringing together fourteen current students and recent alumni from the Yale School of Art. Featuring artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and graphic design, the exhibition celebrates a self-organized community connected through shared cultural ties while reflecting the breadth of contemporary practice emerging from one of the leading MFA programs in the United States. Hosted at and co-organized with Tina Kim Gallery, the exhibition also recognizes the gallery’s longstanding commitment to supporting emerging artists from Korea and its diasporas.
The exhibition takes its title from a work by participating artist Su Ji Kim. Half Memory, Twice Remembered evokes the shifting, layered relationship between memory, language, and inheritance that quietly informs many of the practices on view. Moving between personal narrative and collective history, the works engage questions of identity, place, and belonging through both representation and material practice, tracing the ways cultural memory is carried, transformed, and reimagined across generations and geographies.
Participating artists include Claire Chey, Young Grace Cho, Yuna Cho, Grace Han, David Jung, Heejae Kim, Jeewon Kim, Namyoung Kim, Su Ji Kim, Haejin Park, Youngjin Park, Sok Song, Jam Yoo, and Allison Yoon.
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RECENT ART FAIR
Art Basel 2026
June 18 – 21, 2026
Booth A12
Messe Basel, Switzerland
We return to Art Basel with presentations in both the Galleries sector and the Unlimited sector, dedicated to expansive, in-situ projects that transcend the classical art fair booth. Our selection of works brings together a breadth of artists from our program whose practices have defined contemporary and modern Korean and Asian diasporic art on an international stage. Works by leading figures of the Dansaekhwa movement and Korean modernism, such as Ha Chong-Hyun and Kim Tschang-Yeul, will be presented alongside visionaries including Pio Abad, Kim Lim, Pacita Abad, and Suki Seokyeong Kang, all of whom have garnered recognition from major art institutions and across cultural contexts.
We are pleased to present the works of Korean-born, San Francisco-based artist Maia Ruth Lee (b. 1983), a focus of Tina Kim Gallery’s booth this year and a featured artist of Art Basel Unlimited. Once we leave a place is it there (2024–25), displayed at Unlimited, is an ambitious, large-scale work from Lee’s Bondage Baggage series, created using a binding technique in which the artist tightly bundles and dyes cord-bound fabric before unfurling the work to reveal ghostly, abstract impressions. Our booth will feature smaller extensions of this series, similarly depicting grids, atlases, maps, and readers in reference to the artist’s tender navigation of a life defined by transience, translation, and the diasporic experience.
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RECENT EXHIBITION
Pacita Abad: Door to Life
April 30 – June 20, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, April 30, 6–8pm
We are pleased to present Door to Life, its third solo exhibition of works by the visionary artist Pacita Abad (1946–2004) which highlights a series of works the artist made after a trip to Yemen in the spring of 1998. For years after, Abad created artworks across scale and media that drew tremendous inspiration from the architecture and decorative arts across the country. Including the debut of the artist’s never-before-seen qamariya paintings — references to the traditional stained glass windows of Sanaa — the exhibition will bring together the multiple bodies of work that comprise the holistic Door to Life series for the first time.
Abad was a pioneering artist known for her rigorous political engagement and radical embrace of global arts and crafts practices, which she encountered throughout decades of extensive travel. Born to a politically-active family in Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines, Abad came to the United States in 1970 where she studied at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco before embarking on her decades of nomadic travel to 62 countries across Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa. Although she took courses at The Art Students League and the Corcoran School of Art, Abad stated, “Traveling for me is my art school.” Abad’s practice was distinctly porous, accumulating layersof material, technical, and formal influences throughout her 32-year-long career. Her practice was profoundly influenced by the artisans, seamstresses, craftspeople, journalists, and everyday people she met across her travels. Abad considered her practice to be global rather than defined by any single artistic style or national identity.
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About the Gallery
Tina Kim Gallery is widely recognized for its unique programming that emphasizes international contemporary artists, historical overviews, and independent curatorial projects. The gallery has built a platform for emerging and established artists by working closely with over twenty artists and Estates, including Pacita Abad, Ghada Amer, Tania Pérez Córdova, and Mire Lee, amongst others. Our expanding program of Asian-American and Asian diasporic artists, including Maia Ruth Lee, Minoru Niizuma, and Wook-Kyung Choi, evince the gallery’s commitment to pushing the conversation beyond national frameworks.
Founded in 2001, the gallery opened the doors to its ground-floor Chelsea exhibition space in 2014. The gallery was instrumental in introducing Korean Dansaekhwa artists such as Park Seo-Bo, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Kim Tschang-Yeul to an international audience, establishing public and institutional awareness of this critically influential group of Asian Post-War artists. The gallery partners regularly with prominent curators, scholars, and writers to produce exhibitions and publications of rigor and critical resonance.