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The New Museum today announced that Yun Choi (b. 1989; lives and works in Seoul, South Korea), Alison Kuo (b. 1985; lives and works in New York, NY), and Korakrit Arunanondchai (b. 1986; lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand) will be the first artists-in-residence to inaugurate the Artist Studio created through the OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum. This series of residencies begins in spring 2026 and continues through winter 2027, with the participating artists focused on research and idea development while engaging in public programs, studio visits, and dialogue with artists, curators, community partners, and cultural practitioners across New York’s art ecosystem.
The New Museum’s residency program, now enhanced by the creation of a 730 sq ft artist studio in the Museum’s new building, invites artists to develop work onsite while making their creative process accessible through exhibitions, public programs, and performances. The selection of Choi, Kuo, and Arunanondchai reflects the New Museum’s longstanding commitment to supporting both local and international artists and providing a critical platform for them to engage with New York City arts communities.
Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, said, “The New Museum’s mission is to champion the most exciting and boundary-pushing contemporary artists and our residency program is a new, vital component of this work going forward. The new Marion Boulton ‘Kippy’ Stroud Artist Studio in our OMA-designed expansion creates the Museum’s first dedicated space for this important program to grow.”
Conceived as a catalyst for artistic growth, the New Museum’s artist residency program supports artists at a pivotal stage in their careers by offering the time, space, and support to strengthen their trajectories both locally and internationally. International artists are invited by the Curatorial department, enabling them to connect with other international artists and curators based in New York and providing them with the resources to produce a new work to be shown at the New Museum—often serving as their first presentation at a US or New York museum. New York-based artists are invited by the New Museum’s Education and Public Engagement department to create new projects at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and public participation. Past New Museum artists-in-residence have included Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Simone Leigh, Shaun Leonardo, Cheng Ran, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, Chris E. Vargas, and Ilya Vidrin, among many others.
About Yun Choi
Yun Choi’s practice draws on the visual language of everyday life in South Korea, ranging from commercial advertisements to mass media imagery. Working across video, performance, and multimedia installation, Choi reconfigures these familiar materials to examine how collective desires, beliefs, and anxieties are produced and circulated in contemporary society. Through subtle gestures of humor and displacement, images often regarded as banal or ordinary take on new meanings, allowing residues of popular culture to become sites of social reflection.
Choi has presented solo exhibitions with institutions including CALM – Centre d’Art La Meute, Lausanne (2023); LUX, London (2022); Doosan Gallery New York (2020); and Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017). She has participated in biennials including the 1st Bukhara Biennial (2025), Busan Biennale (2024), the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), and the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). She was selected as the artist-in-residence from 2021 to 2023 at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan.
Choi’s New Museum residency will culminate in the presentation of a new video work at the Museum in Spring 2027.
About Alison Kuo
Alison Kuo makes sculptures from found objects and creates performances that tell stories about the Asian diaspora experience. She is a community arts organizer in Manhattan’s Chinatown and a second-generation immigrant. Kuo has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Hessel Museum of Art, Think!Chinatown, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, the Abrons Art Center, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Internationally, her work has been shown in the 4th Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition at the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, Singapore Arts Week 2022, the 2016 Nanjing International Art Festival, and the MATERIAL art fair in Mexico City. She has created site-specific performance works for Paraiso Bajo in Bogotá, Columbia, and Malagana Macula in Managua, Nicaragua. She is a recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2020 Artist Community Engagement Grant and a What Can We Do? (WCWD) grant from the Asian American Arts Alliance and has been awarded residencies at Mass MOCA and Ma’s House on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Kuo’s artistic practice extends into her work as an organizer and educator. She is a board member of the Asian American Arts Centre and a co-founder of Sisters in Self-Defense, a women’s martial arts training group formed in response to violence directed at the Asian American community during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has worked as a teaching artist at the Abrons Arts Center, The W.O.W. Project, Hamilton-Madison House Older Adult Center, P.S. 130M, and Think!Chinatown, and was previously a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts program.
Kuo’s residency with the New Museum will culminate in a new performance work that draws on her sustained research into Cantonese Opera traditions and will be presented in fall 2026. She will build sets and costumes for the performance in her singular style, drawing aesthetic inspiration and materials from the shops, restaurants, and streets of Chinatown.
About Korakrit Arunanondchai
Across his multimedia performances, videos, objects, and installations, Korakrit Arunanondchai (b. 1986, Bangkok, Thailand; lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand) creates artworks suspended between history and memory, politics and spirituality, and the tangible and the supernatural. Combining storytelling, dramaturgy, and experiential performance, Arunanondchai’s recent installation works accentuate the presence of the viewer within the sensorial environment of the exhibition space.
His New Museum residency follows recent solo presentations and performances at Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok (2024); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2022); Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (2021); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2021); Secession, Vienna (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); MoMA PS1, New York (2014); as well as major international group exhibitions including Sonsbeek 2026: Memory as Living Action, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2026); 14th Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2025); 36 Bienal de São Paulo: Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, São Paulo (2025); Once Within a Time, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International, New Mexico, USA (2025); Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice, among many others.
At the New Museum, Arunanondchai will debut a new site-specific installation comprising moving images, light, soil, ash, and smoke, in which the ghostly atmosphere of the room itself becomes the work.
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