Eana Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Eana Kim specializes in the intersections of contemporary art, technology, and science. Her research focuses on emergence and complexity in contemporary art practices engaging nonhuman systems, including living organisms, artificial intelligence, and hybrid material processes.
She is currently developing a book based on her dissertation, Becomings: Life Forms in the Contemporary Works of Pierre Huyghe and Anicka Yi, which examines how contemporary artists work with self-organizing systems, biological processes, and hybrid morphologies to rethink agency, form, and temporality in art.
Dr. Kim has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and New York University’s Grey Art Museum, where she worked on three large-scale exhibitions, Jack Whitten: The Messenger (2025), Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023), and Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 (2024).
She has published widely as a critic and scholar, with recent writing in Artforum, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, ARTnews, and Hyperallergic, among others. Prior to joining Pratt, she taught undergraduate courses at New York University’s Department of Art History and College Core Curriculum.
Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a B.F.A. with highest honors from Hongik University in Seoul.
Education
Ph.D. History of Art and Archaeology, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
M.A. History of Art and Archaeology, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
B.F.A. Painting, Hongik University, summa cum laude