BATMAN X SPYSCAPE Immersive Exhibition Opens in NYC

06.2022

Mona Kim Projects opens BATMAN x SPYSCAPE immersive exhibition.

Awarded AIGA's 50 Books | 50 Covers Competition

06.2017



We feel deeply honored that our Moowon Book of Stories

was amongst the winners of the “50 Books” categeory.

Google Zoo

03.2017




Mona Kim invited by Google Zoo to share her work & process behind projects intersecting Physical Spaces + Technology + Experience. An inspiring exchange!

Our Studio Book

02.2017


Finally a book compiling our emblematic projects that embody our core values.

Featured in WWD for Uniqlo

11.2016




Honored to be featured in Women’s Wear Daily for Uniqlo Heattech brand environment activation.


(Read article)

Commissioned for Uniqlo Heattech Art Installations

10.2016



Mona Kim has been commissioned by Uniqlo to create high-impact, artistic, and site-specific spatial transformation of its 3 NYC flagships, as part of the brand’s Heattech campaign in-store experience.

(See project)

Lecture on "Creativity"

07.2016




Guest speaker at Conference Les Entrepreneurs Évolutionnaires.

A 45-min presentation all in French !

(Watch Video)

Tickets to Splash SOLD OUT !

07.2014


By popular demand, our celebrated site-specific sculpture is rebuilt and re-installed into its original site, Water Tower, an emblematic architecture of Expo Zaragoza 2008 designed by Enrique de Teresa.

(See Water for Life Exhibition)

Our “Splash” sculpture is coming back... Permanently.

02.2014


This summer, our 23-meter-high spectacular sculpture will return to its original location, Water Tower of Zaragoza. **And this time, it will be permanent.** My partners & I (Program Collective), designed the 134-piece site-specific installation for the “Water for Life” exhibition of International Exhibition of 2008 (Expo Zaragoza). The transport and assembly work was finally approved by the Expo Zargoza Empresarial chaired by the Minister Rafael Fernández de Alarcón.

(Read article)

Featured in WWD

11.2013


Honored to be featured in Women’s Wear Daily for Uniqlo installations.

(Read article)

Commissioned for Uniqlo Global Campaign

09.2013


Mona Kim had been commissioned by Uniqlo 
to create a 360 global holiday campaign 2013.

This **uniquely Uniqlo** campaign is coming to life on digital OOH,
cinema spots, in-store, online, print, store digital facades, and
immersive branded art installations in Uniqlo flagships,
in Europe, Japan, USA.

Featured in TrendTablet

07.2013


"White White (Color) White" content featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

Published !
Thank you again, Gestalten !

02.2013


Uniqlo installation projects published in “Brand Spaces Architecture: Branded Architecture and the Future of Retail Design” by Gestalten. A collection of cutting-edge concepts for communicating brands via architecture, trade show presentations, shops, and interior design.

Seoul story featured in TrendTablet

09.2012


“Seoul Bytes” story featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

Nominated for Iakov Chernikhov Prize 2012

07.2012


Mona Kim & her partners (Program Collective) are honored to be nominated by the architect Enric Ruiz-Geli for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize “Challenge of the Time” 2012.


The biennial prize was created to stimulate creativity in the field of architecture aimed at solving current social and cultural problems; to confirm humanistic principles in the art of architecture and also to support experimental, educational and research works in the field of innovative architecture and town planning. Jury consists of authoritative international architects and experts.

“Underworld Otherworld”
featured in TrendTablet

11.2011


Mona Kim’s inspiration content featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

Published !
Thank you Gestalten !

09.2011


Uniqlo installation projects published in "Out of the Box!: Brand Experience between Pop-Up and Flagship" by Gestalten. A collection of cutting-edge brand presentations and retail spaces.

Museum of Tomorrow
(Museu do Amanhã)

07.2011


Invited by ORB to co-develop immersive media experiences for the future Museum of Tomorrow to be based in Rio, Brazil. A Santiago Calatrava architecture, it will be a museum of possibilities and reflections on the potential future of our planet, life, and culture.

Published ! Thank you Birkhäuser !

06.2011


Our "Water for Life" exhibition project published in "Building with Water" by Birkhauser, authored by Chicago Art Institute's curator Zoe Ryan. Featured projects include prestigious international studios Herzog & de Meuron, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid Architects, and OMA.

Centre Culturel et Touristique du Vin

04.2011


Invited by shortlisted teams Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Jacques Ferrier Architectures to develop scenography & museology proposal for the city of Bordeaux's future wine culture & tourism center. International competition.

XXL Space Invader Origami Santas @Uniqlo

11.2010


UNIQLO-commissioned branded art installations launches in NYC Soho flagship store.

“Aurora Borealis” Installation for Uniqlo

10.2010


Mona Kim’s branded art installation goes up in NYC Soho flagship store as part of Uniqlo’s Heattech campaign efforts.

Première Vision

09.2010


Scenography for the prestigious international fashion fabric show Première Vision. Dynamic, volumetric large-scale installation in "chromatic" movement for Trend Forum "Pulsation". Paris, France.

Published !

07.2010


"Water for Life" exhibition designed by Mona Kim & her partners (Program Collective), was selected for publication in Art of Display: Culture Shows published by Links International. Featured projects include prestigious international studios such as UN Studio, Atelier Brückner, Bruce Mau Design, etc.

Public Art Installation Finalist, Dubai

"MIRAGE 1/MIRAGE 2" selected as a finalist for Public Installation category for the international art & design competition, "Design as Reform" Vol.2. Dubai.

Uniqlo “Heattech” Installation

10.2009


3-global-city installations commissioned by UNIQLO launches in New York, Paris, London flagships.

Broad.cat Conference

11.2008


Mona Kim & Olga Subirós, guest lecturers of ADG-FAD-sponsored event featuring international talents from multimedia discipline. Theme: “Audiovisuals in exhibition”. Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain.

Urban Spa @Barcelona’s Las Arenas

Cutting-edge interiors and multimedia concepts developed for a new concept spa.

ArtFutura Conference

10.2008


Mona Kim and her partners of Program Collective are guest lecturers of an international digital arts conference, Art Futura. Mercat de Flors, Barcelona, Spain.

“Water for Life” Exhibition Opens

+5,000 sq.m. experiential exhibition we designed for Expo Zaragoza 2008, opens to the international. public. Water and sustainability theme. Zaragoza, Spain.

Awarded D&AD

04.2005


Honored to be awarded 2005 D&AD’ for Installations & Experiential Media category, for [“Voices” Exhibition.]
(http://www.monakimprojects.com/projects/voices#slide-08)

Awarded SEGD Global Design Award

06.2005


Honor Award 2005 for SEGD’s Global Design Award in Exhibitions category, for “Voices” Exhibition.

Awarded I.D. Annual Design

07.2005


Honored to be awarded and featured for Honorable Mention in Environments category for I.D. Annual Design Review 2005 –– “Voices” Exhibition

Awarded LAUS Trophy

06.2005


Honored to be awarded the coveted LAUS Trophy for “Voices” Exhibition

Awarded LAUS Honorable Mention

06.2005


Creative direction & design of “Voices” book. A new approach to how exhibition catalogs are conceived.

Awarded Chicago Athenaeum’s Good Design Award

04.2005


Honored to be awarded in the Good Design Award 2004 for Graphics category for “Voices” Exhibition.