Genie Ghim (b. Seoul, Korea) is a first generation American interdisciplinary artist, living and working between Washington, D.C. and Madrid, Spain. As an expatriate from Washington, D.C., Genie’s transnational experiences of residing in Asia, Europe and the Middle East informs her studio practice which includes painting, sculpture and illustration. She attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Genie holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in East Asian Studies from University of Maryland, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art from American University in Washington, D.C. where she received the Ruth Meixner-Bird Scholoarship, Robyn Rafferty Mathias Research Grants, and the Wolpoff Award for works on paper. She is a 2025 grantee of The Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (ACHMC) Artists & Scholars Project Grant. Genie’s work is included in the permanent collections of the American University Museum and Sotheby’s International. She is the curator and director of InterSpace Gallery, a pop-up contemporary art exhibition space founded in the D.C. Metropolitan area, she sits on the Board of Directors for Prism Press, and is currently a resident artist at Hamiltonian Artists, located in the historic U Street Corridor of Washington, D.C.

Through her work, Genie invites the viewer to question preconceived ideas by challenging internal skepticism based on environmental culture. With an itinerent background, her art practice emerges from a personal narrative of navigating multicultural social landscapes, highlighting the tension and balance between tradition and innovation. She has lived in Qatar, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, forming an assemblage of eclectic art forms and research of regional art history, including hardcore punk rock, haute couture and Islamic art. Genie’s practice involves a diverse range of mediums: screen prints, silk paintings, sculptures, natural pigments and laser-cut plexiglass. Her work is an exploration of collective preconception & identity formation, history, and popular culture conveyed in vibrant colors with vivid silhouettes in hard edged abstraction and witty text. “Kendall Buster describes Genie’s text art as ‘lovely poetic word play that nuances any danger of sloganeering.” Currently, Genie’s series of wall sculptures created from mirrors and acrylic glass Alter Egos is on view at The Line DC in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. in creative partnership with Transformer DC.