Working across drawing, performance, video and large-scale murals, Kim explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large.
- Christina Yang, Brooklyn Rail
The current survey of her career since 2011 ... offers a transect through her impressive body of drawings, manifesting an undeniable insurrection in the disability line.
- Mara Mills, Artforum
[Christine Sun Kim's] first major museum show at the Whitney in New York, 'All Day All Night,' is a mixture of wry, witty, puzzling and angry works. They aren’t always subtle or alluring, but they alert us to the nuances and poetry, the joy and bitterness of living in, and also outside, the hearing world.
- Ariella Budick, The Financial Times
Through acts of translation that are alternatively hilarious, furious, and moving, Kim makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the physical pressure of bureaucratic power to the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.
- Lisa Yan Zhang, Hyperallergic
Artist Christine Sun Kim shaves language down to its bones, upending the visual lexicon of infographics to transcribe Deaf experiences in a world of exclusionary norms.
- Natalie Haddad, Hyperallergic
[Christine Sun Kim] a semiotician of the most contemporary strain, probing not just language and its limits but the nature of communication itself, how we transmit ideas and what is gained or lost in the various modes, symbols and attitudes we deploy.
- Brian P. Kelly, The Financial Times