GRACE KIM is a New York and Seoul-based filmmaker turned 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, data art, 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 with Arts Korea Lab’s ‘AI Communication’ Super Testbed supported by the Ministry of Art, Tourism, and Culture in Seoul, South Korea. She recently placed 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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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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


GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2024 ‘Geo-v(oid)(0)latility(∞)politics’, Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway

2024 ‘Futurescape’, Arts Korea Lab Festival 2024, Seoul, South Korea

2024 ‘Gather and Scatter’, Kote, Seoul, South Korea

2024 Tech to Art (TAP), 국제 컨퍼런스의 프리컬 [ART DIFFUSION], Power Plant, Seoul, South Korea (Forthcoming)

2024 ‘200th Anniversary: Brooklyn Artists’, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 

2022 Tide Film Festival, BRIC Brooklyn, NY 

2022 Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA

2022 ‘One Foot in Brooklyn’, Firehouse Cinema, New York, NY 

2021 Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec

2021 ‘Airport Shorts’, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA

2021 Bushwick Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC

2021 Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA

2021 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA

2020 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC

2020 Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, GA

2020 Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, KS

2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, Sunnyvale, CA

2020 Ocktober Film Festival, Stuart Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

2020 Revolution Me Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2020 Queens World Film Festival, Queens, NY

2019 Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY

2019 Indieworks, Nuyorican Cinema, New York, NY

2019 Hamptons International Film Festival, Southampton, NY 

2019 Picture Farm Film Festival, Williamsburg Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Limited Theatrical Run, Syndicated Theater, Brooklyn, NY 

2019 Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL


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

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

2021 Blackmagic Collective Studio Feature Directing Fellowship, Finalist

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 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 Indieworks, Audience Choice Award - 'Loveseat'

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

2018 Screen Craft Short Film Fund, Quarterfinalist - 'Loveseat'


GRANTS & FUNDING

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’

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'


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'