Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Amy Kim

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 3:00pm, Wayne State University

Viscous Empire

Amy Yeminne Kim is Assistant Professor of Photography at Hope College (Holland, MI). Wolfcamp Catalogue, her recent series, examines the West Texas based U.S. oil production with an anthropological eye. It was exhibited at the 2022 Houston Fotofest Biennale as a winner of the Texas Photographic Society National Award. It has since been awarded third place for PH Museum's 2025 Photography Grant by an international jury. Her new mixed media project Viscous Empire aims to parse out the swamp of both subservient and dominating colonial attitudes. Amy has lived in South Korea, France, and Texas before returning to Michigan, her birth state. She holds two MFAs (Studio Art and Art Administration) from Texas Tech University and a BA in French from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea.