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.

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at UCR Arts, Riverside, CA (2026); Elzig Museum, Istanbul (2023); University Galleries, California State University, Sacramento (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); the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011, 2002); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009, 2001); the Museum of Art, Seoul (2009); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 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, Salzburg (2004);. Her triennial and biennial exhibitions include Counterpublic Triennial, St. Louis; 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 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale. Her work is included in international public collections such as those of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Jose Museum of Art, Manetti Shrem Museum, Elzig Collection, the Hammer Museum, the High Museum of Art, M+, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, La Colección Jumex, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the LACE Lightning Fund Artist Grant, the C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship, the Creative Capacity Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), the Korea Arts Foundation of America Artist Grant, and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists.