High on the Hog: Miru Kim's 'The Pig That Therefore I Am'

At first glance, the photographs in Miru Kim's new show, "The Pig That Therefore I Am," opening this Thursday at the Doosan Gallery in New York, seem like abstract studies of female skin.

Miru Kim: Making art of New York's urban ruins

The Entertainment Gathering 2008, Monterey, CA, Dec 11th, 2008. New York-based artist Miru Kim presents photographs of the abandoned urban underground from her series Naked City Spleen.

Close Up: Photographers at Work, "Portraits"

Documentary by Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, Salesman) featuring Bruce Davidson, Miru Kim, Brigitte Lacombe, Jay Maisel, Steve McCurry, Susan Meiselas.

Colby Buzzell, “Miru Kim Takes Pictures”

Esquire, Best and Brightest Issue, December 2007. It started in a cavernous basement in Berlin. Miru Kim loves abandoned, forbidding, frightening places. She was shooting, but something was missing.

Ben Gibberd, “Children of Darkness”

The New York Times, The City Section, July 29, 2007. Ms. Kim’s site, mirukim.com, which has made her something of a legend in urban explorer circles, contains a section devoted to a project she calls “Naked City Spleen.”

Paul Laster, “Miru Kim: Exploring Urban Environments, Nude”

Flavorwire, Cultural news & critique from Flavorpill, September 3, 2009. Rounding out her “rising-star” success, 48 of Kim’s photographs from the Naked City Spleen series, shot between 2005 and 2009, are currently on view at Gallery Hyundai.

David Schonauer, "Interview: Miru Kim"

American Photo, PopPhoto.com, December 2008. Her nude self-portraits created in dilapidated urban settings have made this young photographer a rising star.

John O’Connor, “We’ll climb that bridge when we come to it”

Financial Times Magazine, December 1/2 2007. "I love rats," Miru says. "Down here I can see myself as some kind of animal, burrowing in the dirt and the darkness."