Won Ju Lim

Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture, architecture, and the built environment. 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. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at Elzig Museum, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art; Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; St. Louis Art Museum; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Art, Seoul; UCCA, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; and Museum der Moderne Salzburg. She is a recipient of City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Grant, Henry and Natalie Freund Fellowship, Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship, Korea Arts Foundation for Visual Arts Grant; and California Community Foundation Fellowship. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Lim holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. She is a lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.