Won ju lim artist biography
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This exhibition occurred in the past. The archival exhibition summary below describes the exhibition as it was conceived while on view.
Artist Won Ju Lim, this year’s Freund Fellow, creates conceptually intriguing large-scale installations incorporating video projections along with sculpture, photography, and drawings. Her work merges an engagement with architecture, the specificity of place, and an interest in memory and the past. For example her compelling 2010 installation, Baroque Pet Shop, was based on research she conducted on the Baroque architecture of various European cities such as Munich, St. Petersburg, and Vienna. She then paired such imagery with that of a particular pet shop in the Highland Park neighborhood where she lives in Los Angeles.
In this exhibition, Lim presents new work inspired by another specific place–her own house. Past interactions with an intrusive neighbor (now deceased) have shaped her investigation into the intersection of publi
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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 Freun
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Won Ju Lim
Won Ju Lim’s work examines the dialogue between real and imaginary space as they relate to fantasy, memory, and longing. The formal and conceptual practice of her multimedia work draws from sources including Baroque architecture, fantasy and science fiction films, the urban landscape, and the domestic space. She is the recipient of numerous grants including the Creative Capacity Fund (2014), Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship (2013), Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) (2007), Korea Arts Foundation for Visual Arts Grant (2005), and California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship (2004). Lim’s work has been exhibited widely in United States and internationally, including the St. Louis Art Museum (2014); Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2013); Kunsthalle Detroit (2011); Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2011 and 2002); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009 a