Bio
Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces in the construction of memory, longing, and fantasy, drawing upon both empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority. The conceptual and formal elements in her work draw from sources ranging from Baroque architecture, the urban landscape to the domestic space.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at Elzig Museum, Istanbul (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022, 2013); the San Jose Museum of Art (2018); the Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco (2015); the St. Louis Art Museum (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery (2011, 2002); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009, 2001); the Museum of Art, Seoul (2009); UCCA, Beijing (2008); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2008); DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca (2005, 2007); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus(2005); ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2005); Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld (2004); Museum der Moderne in Salzurg (2004); and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002). Her biennale exhibitions include the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries; the Gwangju Biennale; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum; and the Müenster Sculpture Biennale. Her work is included in international public collections such as those of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Jose Museum of Art, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Elzig Collection, Hammer Museum, High Museum of Art, M+ in Hong Kong, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, La Colección Jumex, and Vancouver Art Gallery, among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the 2016 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship; Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship; Creative Capacity Fund; Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation); Korea Arts Foundation for Visual Arts Grant; and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists.