Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Noise Blanket, Nos. 11-16, or Everybody’s Got Choices, 2019.
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Noise Blanket, Nos. 11-16, or Everybody’s Got Choices, 2019.
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Installation view, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
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Not Exactly B Flat, 2017
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Not Exactly B Flat, 2017
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Installation view, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
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Noise Blanket No.6, 2017
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Noise Blanket No.7, 2017
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Noise Blanket No.5, 2017
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Noise Blanket No., 2017
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SA-3, 2011.
Image courtesy of the artist and Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.

SA-3, 2011
Image ourtesy of the artist and Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.

Inside You is Me, 2016/2017
Image courtesy of the artist and SFMOMA.

Inside You is Me, 2016/2017
Image courtesy of the artist and SFMOMA.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s hybrid practice combines work in sound installation, sculpture, and performance with the aim of reconfiguring the traditional hierarchies between audience, performer, and architecture. Her sculptural and sonic systems often reference complex sonic histories embedded into the technological infrastructure of architecture, music, communications technologies and military research. By investigating the networks of institutional and technological power which traverse our embodied perception of sound, she hopes to reveal the myriad ways in which our acoustic experience is subject to control and suggest alternative modes of engagement with the sonic world.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork (b. 1982, Long Beach) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Stanford University. Recent shows include SFMOMA’s Soundtracks (San Francisco), VAC’s Geometry of Now Festival (Moscow); and solo shows at Human Resources and 356 Mission Rd. (Los Angeles); and Empty Gallery (Hong Kong). Her works are in the collections of SFMOMA, K11 Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum, VAC Foundation and private collections.