Minouk Lim (b. 1968) began her studies in the Department of Painting at Ewha Womans University, but in 1988 moved to Paris and completed her degree in arts plastiques at Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and graduated from Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Felicitation DNSAP in 1994. During her stay in Paris, she organized a team “general genius” with her colleagues and engaged in diverse artistic activities. Since returning to Korea in 1998, she has held numerous solo exhibitions including at Insa Art Space and at Art Sonje Center. In 2012, a large-scale exhibition entitled “Minouk Lim: Heat of Shadows” was held at Walker Art Center in the U.S. Lim has participated in various group exhibitions at home and abroad including the 2010 Liverpool Biennial in the U.K.; the 2012 Paris La Triennale at Palais de Tokyo; “Trust―Media City Seoul” at Seoul Museum of Art in 2012; and the 2014 Gwangju Biennale. She was the nominee of the Korea Artist Prize from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, currently MMCA in 2012.
With unique artistic creativity and alternative methodology, Minouk Lim has explored political and substantial issues that face society through her sharp insights. In an unusual manner―capturing a rapper who shouts against urban development plans on a truck driving along the road, transforming a cruise ship on the Hangang River into an arena for performance, taking footage with a thermographic camera―Lim expresses the agony when alternating between resistance and obedience; possessed objects and abandoned objects; and individuals and communities.
