Description

All Day and All Night are companion lithographs created in dialogue with Christine Sun Kim’s landmark survey exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. These editions reflect a perspective shaped by a unique relationship to sound and communication, one that connects every part of her life—from how she creates to how she moves through the world. Kim’s work transcends medium to express the sensory, emotional, and cultural depth of sound. The titles are both a declaration and an affirmation: her creative drive and lived reality persist without pause or interruption. All day, all night.

Visually, both prints echo the American Sign Language (ASL) signs for “All Day” and “All Night,” offering a still yet dynamic portrait of movement from the signer’s perspective. “All Day” shows the arm resting horizontally while the dominant hand slowly arcs over it, mapping the sun’s path. “All Night” mirrors that motion, but shifts the hand below the horizontal plane, conveying the descent into night. Seen together, the prints capture an intimate choreography of embodied language, inviting viewers into the continuous rhythm of Kim’s world and expression.

About the Artist

Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County) has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2025); Gwangju Biennale (2023); Secession, Vienna (2023); Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); Manchester International Festival, Manchester (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2020); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (2019); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam (2017); Berlin Biennale (2016); Shanghai Biennale (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2015) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), among numerous others.

Kim’s awards and fellowships include an MIT Media Lab Fellowship, a United States Artists fellowship, a Ford and Mellon Foundations’ Disabilities Future Fellowship, and the Prix International d’Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Her works are held in numerous prominent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, LACMA, Tate Britain, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She lives and works in Berlin.