Ayoung Kim’s signature ‘Delivery Dancers’ series, which garnered significant attention across the global art scene through her active practice last year, has been selected as one of the works defining art in 2025.
 
In December 2025, Artnet News announced its selection of the most significant artworks of 2025, chosen by leading figures in the international art world, including Connie Butler, Director of MoMA PS1 in New York, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine in London.

The first work introduced among the selections was Ayoung Kim’s ‘Delivery Dancer’ series (2022–present). Set in a fictional city situated between techno-orientalism and Asian futurism, the series explores semi-coerced mobility and app-mediated bodily sensations in the age of techno-capitalism through the figures of women working as delivery platform laborers.
 
Connie Butler, Director of MoMA PS1, explained her reason for selecting the work, stating that it “perfectly epitomizes 2025 in the use of generative A.I. and other digital technologies in its making.” She further noted that the work “references the alienation of COVID that has shaped our current moment; queer subcultures represented by the female delivery drivers who toil to beat the algorithms powered by endlessly ravenous capitalism.”

The series is currently on view at MoMA PS1 as part of Kim’s first solo exhibition in the United States, 《Delivery Dancer Codex》, which runs through March 16.
 
In addition, Ayoung Kim continues to demonstrate her global influence, having recently been named one of Art Asia Pacific’s Artists of the Year, among other international recognitions.

References

• Artnet News, What Defined 2025? Curators Pick the Year’s Best Art