Miru Kim
Miru Kim photographs herself nude in various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, aqueducts, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards.
She was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 but was raised in Seoul, Korea. She moved back to Massachusetts in 1995 to attend Phillips Academy in Andover and moved to New York City in 1999 to attend Columbia University. In 2006, she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute.[1]
She was featured in Esquire's 2007 Best and Brightest issue[2]
The Financial Times of London included Kim in an article titled "We'll climb that bridge when we get to it" [3] about "urban explorers," people who scale bridges and roam subway tunnels, storm drains, derelict factories, sewers, steam vents and other forbidden city infrastructure.
Kim is also the founder of Naked City Arts a not-for-profit art concern in downtown Manhattan helping young artists to establish themselves.
Notes
- ^ CV.
- ^ Colby Buzzell, "Miru Kim Takes Pictures", Esquire, 20 November 2007.
- ^ John O'Connor, "We'll climb that bridge when we get to it", 14 December 2007
External links
- Kim's site
- Buzzell, Colby. "Miru Kim Takes Pictures". Esquire, 20 November 2007.
- Gibberd, Ben. "Children of Darkness". New York Times, 29 July 2007. On Kim as photographic model.
- Miru Kim (very short CV)