Kacey Kim is an installation and performance artist based in Los Angeles who explores the tensions inherent in her identity as an Asian-American woman through art. In her works, she appropriates racially charged stereotypes and symbols as a way of retelling and rebelling against reductive narratives of the immigrant experience. Her works have been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, Scholastics Art & Writing Awards, and Pentel’s International Children’s Art Exhibition. Kacey is drawn to installation and performance art because the ideas in her head occupy space, gaining a permanence that compels viewers to engage with it. Through her works, she hopes to open up the difficult but necessary conversations about America’s historic and ongoing racism. She plans to study fine arts at Cornell University and further experiment with other art forms, including sculpture, film, and fashion.