Kim Ye is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist whose installations move across sculpture, painting, video, and live performance. Born in Beijing and trained to an MFA at UCLA, she has shown work in venues including the Getty Center’s Pacific Standard Time Family Festival, Moran Bondaroff, Machine Project, and Visitor Welcome Center.
Art Practice Meets Pro Domme Experience
Ye also works as a professional dominatrix. That second life is not a secret side hustle bolted onto the CV—it is material. Her pieces repeatedly stage and interrogate dominant and submissive dynamics: who holds control, who yields, how ritual, costume, and instruction shape a room. The result is a running conversation between contemporary art institutions and BDSM culture rather than a one-off shock tactic.
For viewers who already live in power-exchange communities, Ye’s work reads as translation in both directions—bringing dungeon logic into white-cube spaces, and bringing gallery rigor back to the erotic theater of D/s. Short though the public biographical record is, the through-line is clear: multidisciplinary form, LA base, and an ongoing mediation between artistic practice and the lived craft of dominance and submission.
