Kim's survey is the first major museum show to allow an artist confronting disability to be as expansive as she is.

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had long admired, her desire to impress him got in the way at first, she said.

The British designer has teamed with Sotheby’s for a small art show at her store that will take place until Feb. 10.