GRACE KIM is a New York and Seoul-based director and media artist. 

Grace has directed narrative films, branded content, and music videos for clients such as Epitaph Records, Seoul Fashion Week, and McDonald’s. Her work has screened nationwide at films festivals such as the Hamptons International Film Festival and venues such as the Museum of the Moving Image, Brooklyn Museum, Syndicated Theater, Firehouse Cinema, Stuart Cinema, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. Her films have been supported by the Atlanta Film Society, NYC Women’s Fund, administered by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Local Arts Fund administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council. She is a ViacomCBS Viewfinder Emerging Director Fellow.

As a media artist, Grace works primarily with moving image, installation, and web-based interactions. She is currently exploring generative AI and its impact on Baudrillardian semiotics. She has held residency with the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY and was a ‘AI Communication’ Lab fellow at Arts Korea Lab Super Testbed residency supported by the Ministry of Art, Tourism, and Culture in Seoul, South Korea. She recently won Grand Prix at the AI x Art Hackathon hosted by the AI Research Center & Institute for Culture and Arts at Seoul National University.



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EXHIBITIONS

2024 ‘Objects of Heartbreak’, Brooklyn Artists’ Movie Marathon, 200th Anniversary Short Film Program
      Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2023 ‘Gardens of Heartbreak’, Solo Show
      Bed-stuy Art House, Brooklyn, NY



RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

2024 ‘AI x Art Hackathon’, AI Research Center & Institute for Culture and Arts at Seoul National University, Grand Prix 

2024 ‘Super Testbed: AI Communication’ Arts Korea Lab, Ministry of Art, Tourism, and Culture, South Korea

2023 NYC Women’s Fund Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts - ‘Hypochondriac’

2022 Commercial Directors Diversity Program, Semi-finalist

2022 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program, Finalist

2021 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence

2020 Commercial Directors Diversity Program 50/50 Mentee

2020 Adult Swim ‘Development Meeting’, 1st Place (The Grand Tammy)

2020 Screen Craft Short Film Fund Semifinalist (Fissura) 2020

2020 NYC Women’s Fund Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts - 'The Weeds in this Garden'

2020 Local Arts Fund Grant - Brooklyn Arts Council - 'Objects of Heartbreak' 

2020 Airport Shorts Grant - Atlanta Film Society, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport - 'Heart Tick Kaboom'

2020 ViacomCBS Viewfinder Emerging Director Fellowship

2020 Sundance Film Festival Horizon Award Finalist (Loveseat)

2019 - 2020 Picture Farm Commercial Director Fellowship

2019 Ghetto Film School Emerging Director Fellowship Semi-finalist

2019 Audience Choice Award - Indieworks - 'Loveseat'

2019 Best Director - Revolution Me Film Festival - 'Loveseat'

2018 Screen Craft Short Film Fund Quarterfinalist - 'Loveseat'



PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2022 Film Fest Magazine - 'Meet Filmmaker Grace Kim'

2021 Bureau of Creative Works - 'An Interloper's Kiss'

2021 Bureau of Creative Works - 'An Interloper's Kiss' Q&A with the Filmmaker

2019 Booooooom - 'Loveseat'