High on the Hog: Miru Kim's 'The Pig That Therefore I Am' (Joy Dietrich, New York Times Style Magazine, March 22, 2011)

At first glance, the photographs in Miru Kim's new show, "The Pig That Therefore I Am," opening this Thursday at the Doosan Gallery in New York, seem like abstract studies of female skin.

TED Speaker profile: Miru Kim, Photographer and Explorer

Miru Kim is a fearless explorer of abandoned and underground places. Her photography underscores the vulnerable nature of the human explorer in these no-woman's-lands.

Miru Kim's Wanderlust (Marie Tae McDermott, Dazed, August 7, 2013)

A Korean art photographer taking nude camel selfies speaks from her solar-powered cave.

Miru Kim Takes Pictures (Colby Buzzell, Esquire, December 2007)

It started in a cavernous basement in Berlin. Miru Kim loves abandoned, forbidding, frightening places. She was shooting, but something was missing. "I wanted to put something else in there. A living thing."

Children of Darkness (Ben Giberd, The New York Times, July 29, 2007)

Ms. Kim’s site, mirukim.com, which has made her something of a legend in urban explorer circles, contains a section devoted to a project she calls “Naked City Spleen.” The site features color photographs of Ms. Kim, naked, posed in abandoned tunnels and structures in New York and elsewhere.

The Shadow City (Judith Levitt, The New York Times Multimedia, July 29, 2007)

Narrated by Ben Gibberd. Interviews with Miru Kim were conducted in a tunnel beneath the Upper West Side of Manhattan and at Columbia University.

Miru Kim: Exploring Urban Environments, Nude (Paul Laster, Flavorwire, September 3, 2009)

Rounding out her “rising-star” success, 48 of Kim’s photographs from the Naked City Spleen series, shot between 2005 and 2009, are currently on view at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul.

Nude Artist Miru Kim Confronts Her Fears With Naked Photographs In Abandoned Buildings (David Moye, The Huffington Post, June 24, 2011)

Public nudity is a common fear for millions, but no one confronts it quite like artist Miru Kim.

Female artist who is living naked with pigs for 104 hours (Daily Mail, December 5, 20011)

She admits she has a fear of germs. But for her new art installation, Miru Kim has decided to live with pigs for 104 hours, non-stop.

Interview: Miru Kim (David Schonauer, Popular Photography, March 5, 2009)

Her nude self-portraits created in dilapidated urban settings have made this young photographer a rising star.