Miru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings[1] such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, Paris catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards.

She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 but was raised in Seoul, Korea.

In 2006, she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute.

[2] Kim's Naked City Spleen series of photographs include images of herself nude in these settings.

[3] The Financial Times included Kim in an article titled "We'll climb that bridge when we get to it" [4] about urban explorers.