Minouk Lim

Minouk Lim
Born 1968
Education École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Website minouklim.com

Minouk Lim (born 1968) is a South Korean multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. She has had exhibitions at such institutes as National Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Walker Art Center, and the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum.[1]

Early life and education

Lim was born in Daejeon, South Korea.[2] At a young age, Lim moved to Seoul. She entered an art competition sponsored by the Little Angels where she was given an award as well as a scholarship for the art school.[3] She enrolled at Ewha Womans University in 1985 to study painting.[1] Lim became dissatisfied with the school and left during her last year.[3] She, then, studied at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[4]

Career

Lim started showing her work in South Korea in the late 1990s. In 1998, she created the installation Bus Stop for the exhibition City and Image: Food, Clothing, Shelter. The work was centered around the bus stop billboards in South Korea after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Many of the billboards were left blank. Lim placed non-commercial images in the billboards with the attempt to draw attention to the types of images consumed by the public.[5] Lim's video work New Ghost Town (2005) focuses on Yeongdeungpo and the redevelopment project set in place by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.[6] S.O.S-Adoptive Dissensus (2009) is a site specific video work by Lim; it chronicles a ferry's trip down the Han River. The ferry passes three different events, protesters resisting urban development around the river, lovers taunting the ferry, and a political prisoner signaling S.O.S..[6]

Lim received residency from Hyde Park Art Center in 2013; she worked on the project, FireCliff 4_Chicago, during her one month residency. She collaborated on the project with the Chicago-based organist Chris Foreman.[4]

Themes

Much of Lim's work is concerned with the silent or invisible aspects of various topics[7][8] such as, industrialization and language. Some of her work investigates concepts of language, it's fragile nature, and miscommunication.[8] Her work is critical of society's rapid development and its impact on political and social aspects of life[7] as well as the personal displacement and loss one feels in a urban environment.[6]

Major exhibitions

Awards and nominations

References

  1. 1 2 "Minouk Lim". PMK gallery. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Minouk Lim". Hyde Park Art Center. Hyde Park Art Center. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 McDermott, Emily. "DISCOVERING THE PAST". Minouk Lim. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Lim Minouk". Korean Artist Prize. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Whui-yeon, Jin (2012). Coexisting differences : women artists in contemporary Korean art (1st ed.). Elizabeth, N.J.: Hollym. pp. 122–136. ISBN 9781565913325.
  6. 1 2 3 Kim, Miki Wick (2012). Korean contemporary art (1st ed.). Munich; New York: Prestel. p. 128. ISBN 9783791351575.
  7. 1 2 Kim, Clara. "Minouk Lim : Notes from the Journeys of the 25th Hour". Korean Artist Prize. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. 1 2 Taek-Gwang, Lee. "Impossible thus Possible: The Philosophy of Minouk Lim". Korean Artist Prize. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

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