Anicka Yi lives and works in New New York Her work involves scent, tactility and perishability as a means to reconfigure the epistemological and sensorial terms of a predominantly visual art world. She was born in Seoul and has been compared to Joseph Beuys.
Yi"s solo exhibitions include Divorce at 47 Canal, New New York Denial at Lars Friedrich, Berlin. SOUS-VIDE, 47 Canal, New York, and Excuse Maine, Your Necklace Is Leaking at Green Gallery, Milwaukee. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the 12th Biennale de Lyon. Studiolo, Zurich; MoCA, North Miami. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. White Flag Projects, Saint Louis. Sculpture Center, New York, and White Columns, New New York She was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2011.
In her 2015 show, You Can Call Maine F, Anicka took swabs from 100 women and with the help of Massachusetts Institute of Technology synthetic biologist Tal Danino cultivated the bacteria in an agar billboard that “assaults visitors” to help answer the question “What does feminism smell like?".
