Won Ju Lim

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Won Ju Lim
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Gwangju., [1] South Korea
NationalityAmerican
Education Woodbury University (B.S), Art Center College of Design (M.F.A) [2]
Known for installation art, mixed media sculpture and painting [3]
Notable workElysian Field (2001)
24 Seconds of Silence (2008)
Raycraft Is Dead (2014)
Movement Contemporary art

Won Ju Lim (born 1968) is a Korean American artist. She currently divides her time between Los Angeles, CA and Boston, MA. [2] [4] [5]

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Career

Lim received her B.S. from Woodbury University in 1992, and her M.F.A from Art Center College of Design [2] in 1998.

Lim's multi-media practice examines the dialogue between real and imaginary space as they relate to fantasy, memory and longing, as well as the various transformations that can occur in the connection between a space and its perception. [6] She works with materials including foam-core modules, [7] architectural maquettes, light installations and video projections. [6] [4] [8]

She uses Plexiglas to create three-dimensional miniaturist landscapes, resulting architectural forms, which are illuminated by image projectors from within. Her mixed media installations immerse the viewer in a world of colors, shadows and light, fantasy and nostalgia. [9]

Structures are used simultaneously as screens and light refractive lenses, creating shadows and distorting projections on the walls of the gallery. [10] Works like Ruined Traces (2007), 24 Seconds of Silence (2008), Upside Down Huntington (2005), Upside Down Wilmington (2005), Elysian Field (2001) and Schliemann's Troy (2001) are all examples of such installations. [11] [12]

Claudine Isé, lecturer at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in one of her writings concerning art, futuristic building projects and concepts, has related Lim's Elysian Field to other artists like Dike Blair, Marco Brambilla, Sabine Hornig, Luisa Lambri, Sarah Morris, Deborah Stratman and Amy Wheeler. [13]

In addition to exhibiting in group and solo shows in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, Lim has been participated in the Munster Sculpture Biennial (2001), the Gwangju Biennale (2002), and the Incheon Women's Biennale (2007). In 2018, the San Jose Museum of Art will present California Dreamin', a solo exhibition of her work.

Since 2016, Lim has been an Assistant Professor and the Chair of Sculpture in Graduate Studies at Boston University. She is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco, CA; Patrick Painter Inc. in Los Angeles, CA; and Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin, Germany). [14]

Selected exhibitions

Awards and recognition

Lim is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the Philip Morris Artist Grant (2002); [2] [15] an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Community Foundation (2004); Korean Arts Foundation of America for the Visual Arts (2005); a Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2007); Creative Capital Fund (2014); and C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship (2016). [2] [16] [17] [18]

She was also invited to be an Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College in 2011.

Public collections

Institutions that collect Lim's work include San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; T-B A21, Vienna, Austria; ULCA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, CA; and La Colección Jumex, Estado de México.

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References

  1. ↑ Ottem, Otten (February 21, 2014). "Q&A with Artist Won Ju Lim: Sam Fox School". samfoxschool.wustl.edu. Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Haines Gallery: Won Ju Lim" (PDF). HainesGallery.com. Haines Gallery. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Lim, Won Ju - the-artists.org". the-artists.org. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Won Ju Lim on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery launches a new series on emerging artists of the Pacific Rim" (PDF) (Press release). Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery. October 9, 2002. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Holzwarth, Hans W. (2009). 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z (Taschen's 25th anniversary special ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 342–347. ISBN   978-3-8365-1490-3.
  7. ↑ Johnson, Ken (3 June 2005). "Everywhere's the Same: Nowhere in Particular". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2017. A theatrical installation by Won Ju Lim has scores of boxy plastic and foam-core modules arranged like a sprawling model city in a darkened gallery, with slides of an actual smoking city at night projected onto it and the surrounding walls. It conjures a visionary hellishness.
  8. ↑ "Won Ju Lim (Korean, 1968)". MutualArt. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  9. ↑ McFaden, Jane; Kraus, Chris; Tumlir, Jan (2005). LA Artland: Contemporary Art From Los Angeles. London: Black Dog Publishing. p. 218. ISBN   978-1904772309.
  10. ↑ Miles, Christopher (Summer 2003). "Won Ju Lim" . Artforum . NY. p. 194. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  11. ↑ Betancourt, Michael (2004). Re-Viewing Miami: A Collection of Essays, Criticism, & Art Reviews (1 ed.). Wildside Press. p. 11. ISBN   9780809511228.
  12. ↑ Hsieh, Catherine Y. (July–August 2008). "Broken Silence" (PDF). NY Arts. NY: NYArts. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  13. ↑ Isé, Claudine (2005). Vanishing Point. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. p. 64. ISBN   9781881390374.
  14. ↑ "Won Ju Lim". Artist Pension Trust . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  15. ↑ "Künstlerhaus Bethanien: Won Ju Lim". www.bethanien.de. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  16. ↑ "Won Ju Lim". kunsthalle-detroit.org. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  17. ↑ Miranda, Carolina A. (1 July 2016). "Datebook: Sprüth Mager's key artists, Japanese-inspired ceramics, video on tricky identity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 July 2017. This year, the visual arts winners include Paolo Davanzo, Marsian De Lellis, Keiko Fukazawa, Megan Geckler, Won Ju Lim [...].
  18. ↑ "Won Ju Lim: College of Fine Arts". www.bu.edu. Boston University College of Fine Arts . Retrieved 28 July 2017.

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