Anicka Yi opens Message from the Mud at Storm King
Published on 08/31/2026 at 14:27 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Anicka Yi opens Message from the Mud at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York. The institution says the installation runs May 17-November 9, 2026, and marks her first large-scale outdoor project. Storm King exhibition page
The outdoor installation
Storm King describes Message from the Mud as an excavated site with acrylic columns filled with organic matter. The work uses a soil science method tied to Sergei Winogradsky and turns soil, water, light, and microorganisms into a living visual field.
The museum frames the project as an encounter with deep time, ecology, and interdependence. It also notes that the installation is Yi's first large-scale work outdoors.
Why it matters now
For Monday coverage, the show lands neatly in the exhibition-and-show lane. It extends Yi's long use of biology, scent, and unstable materials into landscape scale, where weather and microbial growth become part of the work.
Pace Gallery's artist page also places the Storm King project within a dense 2026 exhibition year for Yi, including museum and gallery activity across multiple institutions. Pace Gallery artist page
All news and background on Anicka Yi
Track exhibitions, institutional shows, collections, and major career markers around Anicka Yi in one place.
How Yi works
Yi works across installation, sculpture, painting, and immersive environments. Pace describes her studio as a laboratory, and the artist's practice regularly brings in microbiology, synthetic biology, scent, and artificial intelligence.
That mix gives her work a distinct position in contemporary art. It links speculative form to material research, with organisms and systems shaping the final work as much as the artist does.
Where Yi stands now
Anicka Yi is currently on view at Storm King Art Center through November 9, 2026.
Anicka Yi at a glance
- Artist: Anicka Yi
- Medium / Genre: Installation, sculpture, painting, immersive environments
- Born: 1971, Seoul, South Korea
- Place(s) of practice: New York
- Active since: 2008
- Key work groups: Tempura Fried Flowers, Kombucha Sculptures, Kelp Sculptures, Radiolaria Series
- Current/last exhibition: Message from the Mud, Storm King Art Center, May 17-November 9, 2026
- Major collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Awards: Hugo Boss Prize, 2016; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 2011
- Next date: currently on view at Storm King Art Center through November 9, 2026
Frequently asked questions about Anicka Yi
Where is Anicka Yi currently on view?
Anicka Yi is on view at Storm King Art Center with Message from the Mud. The exhibition runs May 17-November 9, 2026.
What is Message from the Mud?
It is Yi's first large-scale outdoor project. Storm King says the work uses acrylic columns, soil, water, and microorganisms to build a site shaped by ecological time.
Which major award has Anicka Yi received?
Yi received the Hugo Boss Prize in 2016. Pace also lists the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award from 2011.
This article was produced with a.i. support and editorially reviewed. All statements without guarantee; auction results, exhibition dates and awards may change at short notice.
