Ayoung Kim wins 2025 LG Guggenheim Award with $100,000 honorarium
Ayoung Kim, a South Korean artist, has been awarded the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award, which comes with a $100,000 honorarium. She is the third recipient of this accolade, part of the collaboration between LG and the Guggenheim in New York, aimed at honoring artists who blend art with technology. Kim's work incorporates both traditional techniques and modern technologies such as motion capture and animation software to delve into virtual reality. The jury, consisting of Mohamed Almusibli, Doryun Chong, Sabine Himmelsbach, Alfredo Jaar, and Noam Segal, commended her for tackling the ethical dimensions and human aspects of technology. Kim remarked that as technology evolves, artists can navigate its unpredictable potential, positioning herself between techno-optimism and techno-pessimism.
Key facts
- Ayoung Kim is the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award recipient
- She receives an unrestricted $100,000 honorarium
- Kim is the third artist to receive this award
- The award is part of a five-year collaboration between Guggenheim New York and LG
- Kim works at the intersection of art and technology
- Her practice uses motion capture, animation software, game engines, and image-generation technologies
- She also works with traditional mediums like performance, sculpture, and printmaking
- Kim will be profiled in an upcoming issue of ArtReview Asia
Entities
Artists
- Ayoung Kim
- Alfredo Jaar
Institutions
- Guggenheim New York
- LG
- ArtReview Asia
- Kunsthalle Basel
- M+
- HEK (House of Electronic Arts)
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Hong Kong
- China
- Basel
- Switzerland