Soomin Kang
Site Service Residency & Solo Exhibition
December 2026–January 2027
Nine, 112 Madison St, New York, NY 10002
Interdisciplinary artist Soomin Kang takes up residency with Site Service at Nine, 112 Madison St, spending time with what arrived in cardboard boxes: a playground, originally meant to be installed in a private backyard. Instead, Soomin brings it into the white-walled rectangular room at Nine, and the residency becomes play. Over the two weeks before opening the installation to the public, she handles and plays with the components that came by freight, until some parts stay close to the body and others become architecture.
Soomin holds the keys to Nine from Friday, November 20. The residency supports the development of a new installation, presented by Site Service, opening Friday, December 4, with a reception from 6 to 8 pm.
Soomin Kang is an artist working between Seoul and New York, primarily in sculpture and installation. She explores the language embedded in everyday objects and environments, and how they shape our expectations and behavior through care, familiarity, and subtle forms of control. Working with materials from different contexts associated with bodily support, she misaligns their functions to explore how the body moves through structures and what these structures ask of it in return.
Her work has been shown at Nguyen Wahed Gallery (2026), 260 Madison (2026), and Art Cake (2026), among others. She received her BFA from Korea National University of Arts and her MFA from Columbia University in 2026.
Soomin Kang, Ground Play, 2026, Commercial vinyl composition tile (VCT), plastic badges, clothespins, horse bridle rack, metal springs, fabricated and found objects, silicone, latex mat, courtesy of the artist.