Yeawon Kim

Yeawon Kim is an artist, designer, and storyteller who creates patterns of visual data, as a way to make connections between natural and virtual ecologies. As a trans-national female, she is originally from South Korea and currently resides in Silicon Valley, and became interested in the gestures of cultural sentiments by observing how one’s transient realities are transformed within one’s digital and physical environment. Her realities’ are often revealed through speculative storytelling, graphic design, and immersive installation. She wrote her Master’s thesis on ‘Unresolved Ironies: 한(Han),’ and received her MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She is currently working as a product designer at the Uber Advanced Technology Group, envisioning self-driving vehicle experience in a possible future.