Christine Sun Kim (born 1980) is an American sound artist based in Berlin.
[1] Working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video, Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society.
[9] Christine Sun Kim was born in 1980 and raised in Southern California with hearing parents and a deaf sister.
She attended University High School in Irvine, California, and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
[12][13] Kim investigates the operations of sound and various aspects of Deaf culture in her performances, videos, and drawings.
In developing her personal visual language, Kim draws from a variety of information systems.
[18] She later penned an op-ed in The New York Times criticizing Fox Sports for cutting away during her American Sign Language performances of "America the Beautiful" and the national anthem.
Kim had four of her deaf friends recreate scenes from The Addams Family, Ghost, and The Little Mermaid by reading only the subtitles.
Kim uses sound to explore her feelings in a unique way, as writer Molly Hannon addresses.