Christine Sun Kim, born in 1980, is an American sound artist, performer, and activist based in Berlin. Working primarily in drawing, performance, and video, her practice examines how sound functions within social, political, and institutional contexts. Musical notation, written language, American Sign Language (ASL), and the body are recurring elements in her work. Profoundly deaf since birth, Kim’s first language is ASL, and her lived experience of sound and communication fundamentally shapes her artistic perspective. Her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial. Kim has been named a TED Fellow, a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow, and in 2025 she received the inaugural Radical Transformation Award from the Henkaku Center at Chiba Institute of Technology. She is also known for her advocacy, including establishing Deaf-led programs during her tenure at the Whitney Museum.