JO.KIMCONTACT 

soft sound (2025)
sonic installation 
dimensions variable 
screenprint, aluminium composite panel, mild steel, aluminium, transducer on hvac vent system, porcelain tiles, hardware 





Jo Kim is an artist based in Austin, Texas, working across installation, print, sculpture, and sound. Their practice examines the poetics of acoustics in relation to space and body, often posing questions like: What does it mean to feel and see sound? How do objects perform? What if sculpture did not just depict bodies but rather imitated them, even longed for them? Ultimately, their practice seeks to question how sound and space can reshape our experience through poetic reconsideration, reimagining architectural elements and overlooked infrastructures as resonant sites that transform vibration, silence, and noise into spatial and visual encounters. 

Jo holds BA Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London and is currently part of MFA Studio Art in University of Texas at Austin. 
 PRESS

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE, Making their MARK
 
GLASSTIRE, Two Art Fairs Come to Austin: A Review of Affordable Art Fair &  Friends Fair

EXHIBITIONS

2026, Where Memory Becomes Land, Austin Central Library, Austin 

2026, MARK, Women & Their Work, Austin 

2026, Friends Fair, The Loren Hotel, Austin

2026, Half a Second or Less, Visual Arts Center, Austin 

2025, In Transit, The Gallery ATX, Third Anuual Film Festival, Austin 

2024, Making Expansive, Austrian Cultural Forum, London 

2023, Monochromatic Comfort, AMP Gallery, Peckham, London 

2023, Screen As, BA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London 

2023, Powder of the Flute, Safe House, Peckham, London 

2022, Never the same Something else, The Old Diorama Arts Centre, Euston, London 

2022, Thanatopsis, Crypt Gallery, Euston, London 

2021, Having a coke with you, Cook House Gallery, Chelsea, London