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"An Artificial Place" through Feb 8, 2025 @sidercar_gallery @nightgallery

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A closer look at #WonJuLim's Parasiting, now on view in @Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time.

Commissioned by the St. Lous, MO triennial for its third edition, Parasiting merges architecture, sculpture, light, shadow and sound. The installation features a series of glass panels laser-engraved with images of spiderwebs, each hand-collected by @wonjulimstudio from over fifty historically charged buildings and locations.

The exhibition opened with The Host, a contemporary dance performance conceived in collaboration with @stldancetheatre and artist Amy Granat.

👉 On view through December 13, 2026

📷: Installation view of Won Ju Lim, Parasiting by Jon Gitchoff; performance photography by Tyler Small. All images courtesy of Counterpublic. by @wonjulimstudio

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We are delighted to announce that our fourth Graduate Seminar speaker will be Won Ju Lim introduced by Yeon Kyung Kim.

The event will be held on Tuesday, October 6th, at 7:00pm at the LAT Media Center on Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA, 91103

The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series is organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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 drawing upon 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 UCR Arts, Riverside; the Elzig Museum, Istanbul; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; the Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art, Seoul; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Her triennial and biennial exhibitions include Counterpublic Triennial 2026: Coyote Time, St. Louis; International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands; the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale, Münster.

Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Lim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Woodbury University and an MFA in Studio Art from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Image rights: 1) Won Ju Lim, That Sense of Complexity…, exhibition view, UCR Arts, Photo by Nickolay Maslov.
2) Won Ju Lim, portrait, courtesy of the artist. by @wonjulimstudio

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Putting the final touches on Won Ju Lim: The Vast Structure of Recollection, on view starting July 18th. Also, please join us for the opening reception on October 10th!

Won Ju Lim (@wonjulimstudio): The Vast Structure of Recollection brings together three chapters of Lim’s artistic practice. The works on view include Proustian Bedroom, That Sense of Complexity…, and a new site-specific installation. In Proustian Bedroom, Lim reconstructs 11 bedrooms from her past and the one she currently occupies, layering their remembered dimensions and spatial arrangements across the walls of the Coil Atrium over the course of the exhibition, with the installation completing in March. That Sense of Complexity…, another Proust-related project, combines found objects with architectural models to create an environment of shifting light and shadow. Created especially for this exhibition, a new installation investigates the physical and spectral traces of the gallery itself–a former turn-of-the-century Rouse’s department store–exploring the museum site as a repository for residues of the past. taken in UCR ARTS by @wonjulimstudio

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What an honor it is to be included among these fabulous female artists...

#greatwomensculptors by @phaidonpress

https://www.phaidon.com/store/art/great-women-sculptors-9781838667771/ by @wonjulimstudio

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Won Ju Lim “The Sense of Complexity”, 2025 taken in Hollywood Hills by @wonjulimstudio

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Final week: ‘Ramp’s Edge’ curated by Marissa Graziano

Won Ju Lim explores themes of privacy and paranoia through her careful placement of works nestled within the confines of the gallery. Her aptly titled, Corner, is presented in its third iteration as a white model house that abuts an exposed wall of the gallery and hints at an interior space beyond the studs.

Won Ju Lim, Corner, 2014, Wood, acrylic paint, and nylon powder, 23 ½ x 50 x 36 in
(59.7 x 127 x 91.4 cm) by @wonjulimstudio

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Today is the last day to see "an Artificial Place" @sidecar_gallery @nightgallery. Thank you to all that came to see the show, for your time and sending me words of appreciation and support.

The exhibition talk between myself and Graham Harman @harman_object moderated by Daniel Tovar @to5ar will take place in the gallery at 2pm.

A huge THANK YOU to the crew at Night Gallery. My deepest gratitude to Davida @dahveeduh for helping me realize this large-scaled project and giving it a home for many weeks in the most perfect space. And also to Amy Granat @parapetrealhumans for your continuing support, friendship, and love. by @wonjulimstudio

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On view now: ‘Ramp’s Edge’ curated by Marissa Graziano

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 to the urban landscape to the domestic space.

Won Ju Lim, Endoscopy, 2014, Single-channel video projection, 8 minutes, 37 seconds, looped, Dimensions variable

Thurs - Sat, 12-6pm @ 53 Orchard thru Feb 22 by @wonjulimstudio

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Honored to be awarded with these fabulous artists!

Thank You:
@welcometolace @warholfoundation

@jenyamaya @carmen.argote @jbellzamy @zarakuredjian @wonjulimstudio @calmatetupedo @na_popp @jinjabrew @revolutionordeath @kjw_praxis by @wonjulimstudio

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“An Artificial Place” reopens tomorrow, Jan. 7, 2025 and runs through Feb. 8 @sidecar_gallery @nightgally.

On-line Viewing Room: https://www.sidecargallery.ca/exhibitions/won-ju-lim2#tab:thumbnails

“THANK YOU” to these lovely people for your dedication, expertise, hard work, and support in the studio and out:
#amygranat @parapetrealhumans; #jantumlir; Eric Wesley @the_bell_cahokia; Matthew Brannon @matthew_brannon_1; Aaron Pennington @unforbidden_cashmere; Walker Sayre @tindragonmedia; Stu Goldstein @stujay18; Devin Wilson @devinwilsonstudio taken in Night Gallery by @wonjulimstudio

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"Casting II" will be part of my upcoming exhibition, "An Artificial Place" at @nightgallery, @sidecar_gallery.
Opening reception: Dec 14, 6-8pm.

Casting II, 2023
Single-channel video
39min, 4sec, looped

Production support from @ocmamuseum
Editor: @tindragonmedia
Sound designer: @stujay18 by @wonjulimstudio

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY my Love, my Lover, my BFF. We celebrate you, #jantumlir! by @wonjulimstudio

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