Lives and works in Seoul, Korea and Santa Cruz, California
yoonkyung.lim@gmail.com


Education
2024-  PhD in Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2011-2012  Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York, U.S.A
2010  MFA in New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2007  BFA in Visual Arts, The Korean National University of the Arts (KNUA), Seoul, Korea

 

One Person Exhibitions and Projects
2025 What the Mouth Remembers: Lost Recipe, Found Words, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2023  Time-line: National Regulatory Codes, Hyanglin Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
2023  Time-line Project, Temi Art Center, Daejeon, Korea
2020  One’s Position, The Reference, Seoul, Korea
2016  Familiar Group Unfamiliar Individual, Space Willing & Dealing Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014  Womens’ Work, 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea


Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 A Dawn and Two Dusks, (site-specific art event led by Anna Friz and Cid Pearlman), UCSC Arboretum, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2024  Gangwon International Triennale 2024: Ecological Art from Beneath, Gangwon-do, Korea
2024  By Human, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2023  89mile, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2023  Preview, Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, Korea
2023  The Unknown Name for K, Art Centre Art Moment, Seoul, Korea
2022  Take an Alternative Route – Ri Sang-Choon Institute of Contemporary Art 2nd Exhibition, Music Cafe C’est La Vie, Daegue, Korea
2022  My Your Memory, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2021  Caring Society, Gyongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2019  Seeing Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019  Time-line: National Regulatory Codes, Open Studio, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2019  Beonwe: A-side-B, Geumcheon PS333, Seoul, Korea
2018  Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017  Lesson Zero, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
2015  LOVE I, Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, Korea
2012  Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition, 161 Bowery, New York, U.S.A
2010  S.O.S, St. Louis Artists Guild & Galleries, Clayton, U.S.A
2010  UCLA MFA Thesis Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010  Lost Angeles, 4th Annual AHUSA Exhibition, UCLA Powell Rotunda library, Los Angeles, CA
2009  A Day in the Life: Exploring and Exposing the Everyday, UCLA Kerckhoff Art Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A


Screening
2015  Screening Project Dongshi Sangyoung #3: Letters to you, Open Box, Seoul, Korea


Residency 
2023  Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, Korea
2019  Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea


Selected Lectures/Artist Talks/Public Programs
July 19, 2023  Public lecture: Contemporary art and feminism, Ri Sang-Choon Institute of Contemporary Art, 4th forum on Contemporary art and contemporariness, Innovation space Baram, Daegue, Korea
December 20th, 2022  Public Forum and Panel: Time-line Roundtable Talk with Eunjoo Nam, Sohyun Park, Yoonkyung Lim, Music Cafe C’est La Vie, Deagu
October 16th, 2021  Presentation & One Day Class: One Day Class – Art Quiz with Jungsan High School students, Jungsan High School, Seoul
November 5th, 2020  Artist Talk: Talktalk #36 – Yoonkyung Lim x Sejin Hyun, The Reference, Seoul (Moderator: Gabi Hyun)
November 28th, 2019  One Day Class with students from Dong-il Middle school, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
April 25th, 2018  Artist Talk and lecture: Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul (with a curator, Hyejin Park)
August 27th, 2016  Artist Talk on Familiar Group, Unfamiliar Individual, Space Willing & Dealing, Seoul (Panel: artist Meehye Lee, Moderator: curator Inseon Kim)
April 24th,  2014 Artist lecture: Women in Contemporary Art in Korea, International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul
Dec 19th, 2013 Online Artist talk, Translation/Dialogue program moderated by a curator, Cho Sunhe, Tokyo


Public Collection 
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

 

Teaching Experience
Spring 2019-2024  Instructor: Foundation Studio 4 (De/construction); Studio 8 (Object in Flux), School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Spring 2019-2024  Teacher: Creative Experience: Art as Social Practice, Sunhwa Art High School, Seoul
Spring 2016-18  Instructor: Object and Space; Three and Four-Dimensional Concepts, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Spring 2015-2017  Teacher: Creative Experience: Performing the Body, Sunhwa Art High School, Seoul
Spring 2010  Teaching Assistant: Advanced New Genres; Co-taught with Andrea Fraser, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2009  Teaching Assistant: Introduction of New Genres; Co-taught with Jeffrey Vallance, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2009  Teaching Assistant: Introduction of New Genres; Co-taught with Stanya Kahn & Erika Vogt, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Seoul, Korea and Santa Cruz, California
yoonkyung.lim@gmail.com


Education
2024-  PhD in Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2011-2012  Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York, U.S.A
2010  MFA in New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2007  BFA in Visual Arts, The Korean National University of the Arts (KNUA), Seoul, Korea

 

One Person Exhibitions and Projects
2025 What the Mouth Remembers: Lost Recipe, Found Words, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2023  Time-line: National Regulatory Codes, Hyanglin Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
2023  Time-line Project, Temi Art Center, Daejeon, Korea
2020  One’s Position, The Reference, Seoul, Korea
2016  Familiar Group Unfamiliar Individual, Space Willing & Dealing Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014  Womens’ Work, 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea


Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 A Dawn and Two Dusks, (site-specific art event led by Anna Friz and Cid Pearlman), UCSC Arboretum, Santa Cruz, U.S.A
2024  Gangwon International Triennale 2024: Ecological Art from Beneath, Gangwon-do, Korea
2024  By Human, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2023  89mile, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2023  Preview, Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, Korea
2023  The Unknown Name for K, Art Centre Art Moment, Seoul, Korea
2022  Take an Alternative Route – Ri Sang-Choon Institute of Contemporary Art 2nd Exhibition, Music Cafe C’est La Vie, Daegue, Korea
2022  My Your Memory, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2021  Caring Society, Gyongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2019  Seeing Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019  Time-line: National Regulatory Codes, Open Studio, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2019  Beonwe: A-side-B, Geumcheon PS333, Seoul, Korea
2018  Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017  Lesson Zero, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
2015  LOVE I, Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, Korea
2012  Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition, 161 Bowery, New York, U.S.A
2010  S.O.S, St. Louis Artists Guild & Galleries, Clayton, U.S.A
2010  UCLA MFA Thesis Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010  Lost Angeles, 4th Annual AHUSA Exhibition, UCLA Powell Rotunda library, Los Angeles, CA
2009  A Day in the Life: Exploring and Exposing the Everyday, UCLA Kerckhoff Art Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A


Screening
2015  Screening Project Dongshi Sangyoung #3: Letters to you, Open Box, Seoul, Korea


Residency 
2023  Artist Residency TEMI, Daejeon, Korea
2019  Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea


Selected Lectures/Artist Talks/Public Programs
July 19, 2023  Public lecture: Contemporary art and feminism, Ri Sang-Choon Institute of Contemporary Art, 4th forum on Contemporary art and contemporariness, Innovation space Baram, Daegue, Korea
December 20th, 2022  Public Forum and Panel: Time-line Roundtable Talk with Eunjoo Nam, Sohyun Park, Yoonkyung Lim, Music Cafe C’est La Vie, Deagu
October 16th, 2021  Presentation & One Day Class: One Day Class – Art Quiz with Jungsan High School students, Jungsan High School, Seoul
November 5th, 2020  Artist Talk: Talktalk #36 – Yoonkyung Lim x Sejin Hyun, The Reference, Seoul (Moderator: Gabi Hyun)
November 28th, 2019  One Day Class with students from Dong-il Middle school, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
April 25th, 2018  Artist Talk and lecture: Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul (with a curator, Hyejin Park)
August 27th, 2016  Artist Talk on Familiar Group, Unfamiliar Individual, Space Willing & Dealing, Seoul (Panel: artist Meehye Lee, Moderator: curator Inseon Kim)
April 24th,  2014 Artist lecture: Women in Contemporary Art in Korea, International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul
Dec 19th, 2013 Online Artist talk, Translation/Dialogue program moderated by a curator, Cho Sunhe, Tokyo


Public Collection 
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

 

Teaching Experience
Spring 2019-2024  Instructor: Foundation Studio 4 (De/construction); Studio 8 (Object in Flux), School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Spring 2019-2024  Teacher: Creative Experience: Art as Social Practice, Sunhwa Art High School, Seoul
Spring 2016-18  Instructor: Object and Space; Three and Four-Dimensional Concepts, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Spring 2015-2017  Teacher: Creative Experience: Performing the Body, Sunhwa Art High School, Seoul
Spring 2010  Teaching Assistant: Advanced New Genres; Co-taught with Andrea Fraser, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2009  Teaching Assistant: Introduction of New Genres; Co-taught with Jeffrey Vallance, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Spring 2009  Teaching Assistant: Introduction of New Genres; Co-taught with Stanya Kahn & Erika Vogt, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA