Art Basel 2026: Booth A12

Tina Kim Gallery returns to Art Basel with presentations in both the Galleries sector and the Unlimited sector, dedicated to expansive, in-situ projects that transcend the classical art fair booth. Our selection of works brings together a breadth of artists from our program whose practices have defined contemporary and modern Korean and Asian diasporic art on an international stage. Works by leading figures of the Dansaekhwa movement and Korean modernism, such as Ha Chong-Hyun and Kim Tschang-Yeul, will be presented alongside visionaries including Pio Abad, Kim Lim, Pacita Abad, and Suki Seokyeong Kang, all of whom have garnered recognition from major art institutions and across cultural contexts.

We are pleased to present the works of Korean-born, San Francisco-based artist Maia Ruth Lee (b. 1983), a focus of Tina Kim Gallery’s booth this year and a featured artist of Art Basel Unlimited. Once we leave a place is it there (2024–25), displayed at Unlimited, is an ambitious, large-scale work from Lee’s Bondage Baggage series, created using a binding technique in which the artist tightly bundles and dyes cord-bound fabric before unfurling the work to reveal ghostly, abstract impressions. Our booth will feature smaller extensions of this series, similarly depicting grids, atlases, maps, and readers in reference to the artist’s tender navigation of a life defined by transience, translation, and the diasporic experience.

Art Basel Unlimited