# Ayoung Kim

Artist. TIME100 AI 2026, Thinkers. To make her AI and game-engine films about delivery workers, she rode along with a motorbike courier through Seoul during the pandemic. ([brooklynrail.org](https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/art/ayoung-kim-with-eana-kim/))

- Born: 1979, Seoul, South Korea ([brooklynrail.org](https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/art/ayoung-kim-with-eana-kim/), [ocula.com](https://ocula.com/artists/ayoung-kim/))
- Education: MA, Fine art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2010; BA (Hons), Photography, London College of Communication, 2007; BFA, Visual communication design, Kookmin University, 2002 ([ayoungkim.com](http://ayoungkim.com/wp/cv))

- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/ayoung-kim/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/ayoung-kim

- To research her Delivery Dancer series she rode along with a female motorbike courier in Seoul during the pandemic, in four- to five-hour shifts. ([brooklynrail.org](https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/art/ayoung-kim-with-eana-kim/))
- Delivery Dancer grew into a film trilogy plus seven spin-off works, including games, performances and installations. ([koreaherald.com](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10861484))
- Won the Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica's top prize, in the animation art category. ([koreaherald.com](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10861484))
- Her father spent 10 years as a construction engineer in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, a Gulf link that runs through works like Al-Mather Plot 1991. ([koreaherald.com](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10861484))
- Studied design in Seoul, spent five years at art school in London, then moved to Berlin for a residency where she made PH Express. ([koreaherald.com](https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10861484))
- Works from a studio in Seoul's Nakwon Arcade, a downtown building put up in 1967. ([brooklynrail.org](https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/art/ayoung-kim-with-eana-kim/))