In Conversation: Yunhee Min and Jan Tumlir

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to host a conversation between artist Yunhee Min and arts writer and professor Jan Tumlir on December 13th at 3pm on the occasion of Min's solo exhibition Stills on view at the gallery.

Yunhee Min (b. Seoul, Korea) is a Los Angeles-based artist who holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MA in Design Studies from Harvard University. Recent site-specific installations and architectural interventions include: Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C, University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA; Equitable Vitrines, Equitable Life Building, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.

Min has had solo exhibitions at LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and Exercise, Vancouver, BC. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). In 2022 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Upcoming projects include a permanent mosaic installation in the new Westwood/UCLA Los Angeles Metro station (scheduled to open 2028); as well as a site-specific installation for the opening of the new Memphis Art Museum (scheduled to open 2026).

Min has shown with Vielmetter Los Angeles since 2003 and is also represented by Miles McEnery Gallery, New York.

Jan Tumlir is an art-writer and teacher based in Los Angeles. He is a founding editor of the local art journal X-TRA and a long-time regular contributor to Artforum and Frieze. More recently, he has joined the editorial team at Effects, a London-based journal devoted to “aesthetics in the shadows of the contemporary."
Tumlir has written extensively on such artists as Bas Jan Ader, Uta Barth, John Divola, Cyprien Gaillard, Allen Ruppersberg and James Welling. His books include: LA Artland, a survey of contemporary art in Los Angeles co-written with Chris Kraus and Jane McFadden (Black Dog Press, 2005); Hyenas Are…, a monograph on the work of Matthew Brannon (Mousse, 2011); The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records (Onomatopee, 2015); and Conversations, produced in discussion with Jorge Pardo (Inventory Press, 2021). A book-length study of the role of gesture in painting is forthcoming. Tumlir has served as a faculty member of the Fine Art and Humanities and Sciences departments at Art Center College of Design since 1999. In 2022, he joined the faculty of SCI-Arc as resident art historian.

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