Won Ju Lim

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.

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at Elzig Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld, Germany; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria. Her biennial 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, Hammer Museum; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale.