Miru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the

Croton aqueduct The Croton Aqueduct or Old Croton Aqueduct was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. The great aqueducts, which were among the first in the United States, carried water by gravity from ...

Paris catacombs The Catacombs of Paris (french: Catacombes de Paris, ) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries. Ex ...

, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. She is the daughter of Korean public philosopher

Do-ol Do-ol is the pen name of the contemporary South Korean philosopher Kim Yong-ok (sometimes given as To-ol Kim Young-oak). Career and education Dr. Kim Yong-ok (literally "Gold Dragon Jade"), best known by his pen-name “Do-ol” (stone-head, a ...

Early life and education

Kim is the daughter of contemporary South Korean philosopher Young-Oak Kim (aka

). She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 but was raised in Seoul, Korea. She returned to Massachusetts in 1995 to attend

Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover , state = Ma ...

Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

, and later moved to New York City in 1999 to attend

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. In 2006, she received an MFA in painting from

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

Career

Kim's ''Naked City Spleen'' series of photographs include images of herself nude in these settings. For the series ''The Pig That Therefore I Am'', she visited industrial hog farms and immersed herself amongst the pigs. She was included in ''

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s 2007 ''Best and Brightest'' issue. The ''

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

'' included Kim in an article titled "We'll climb that bridge when we get to it" John O'Connor,
We'll climb that bridge when we get to it
, 14 December 2007 about

urban explorers Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex and sometimes known as roof and tunnel hacking) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment. Photography and historical inter ...

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TED Talks: Miru Kim's underground art of New York's urban ruins
at

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in 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Miru 1981 births American photographers Artists from Massachusetts American contemporary artists American people of Korean descent South Korean photographers Living people American women photographers American women illustrators American illustrators South Korean women photographers Columbia University alumni Pratt Institute alumni People from Stoneham, Massachusetts Phillips Academy alumni Gwangsan Kim clan 21st-century American women

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