CHOONG SUP LIM

Born in Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do in 1941, Lim attended Seoul National University before continuing his studies in New York City, where he now lives and works. Lim’s art is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Korea. Lim builds bridges between different worlds. He combines sculpture, painting, and found objects to assert a harmony among contrasting concepts, such as the regimentation of modern civilization and a chaotic universe, urban and rural life, and the West and Korea. To Lim, the emphasis on distinctions conceals a deeper truth, which he seeks to uncover through an “emptying of self” and a patching of the “in-betweens.”

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Korea Society in New York City, USA

2012
Choong Sub Lim: Luna, And Her Thousand Reflections, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2011
Shin Sea Gae Gallery in Busan, Korea

2010
Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul, Korea

2009
Chang Art Gallery in Beijing, China

2008
Atelier - 705 in Seoul, Korea

2005
Habitual Habitat, Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, USA

2000
Light Hunting, Samsung Museum of Modern Art and Rodin Gallery in Seoul, Korea

1997
Fossilscape, Sandra Gering Gallery in New York, USA

1993
Other Visions, Neuberger Museum of Art, in SUNY Purchase, NY, USA

1993
Well-Ant Hill, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, USA

1992
Reversed Tent, Sandra Gering Gallery in New York, USA

1989
Hylozoism-Painting and Wooden Assemblages, Sandra Gering Gallery in New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Scope Basel Switzerland, Dubner Moderne Galerie D'ArtArt Paris
Dubner Moderne Galerie D'ArtAustralian and Korean Art 1976 - 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, MCA
<Tell Me Tell Me>Shoes or Not Shoes Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium

2008
<The Points of Compass> in Havana, Cuba

2005
The Armory Show, Sandra Gering Gallery in New York, NY

2003
Below Canal September, 11 2002, Asian American Arts Center in New York, NY
Dreams and Reality: Korean American Contemporary' Art Exhibit to Celebrate 100Years of Korean Immigration to the US. Smithsonian International Gallery in Washington, DC

2002
Artists to Artists, ACE Gallery, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in New York, NY

2000
A Passage for a New Millennium, Korean Artists of Overseas Exhibitions, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Kwacheon, Korea
Gurim Village Project I, The 1st Earth Festival, Young-am, Korea

1999
Seoul in Media' 99 Lumia of Century, Seoul Municipal Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea

1997
The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
The 2nd Kwangju Biennale. Kwangju, Korea
The Hirshhorn Collection: Recent Acquisitions 1992-96, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century in Queens Museum, NY

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, Kyung Gi-Do Museum Korea, Shoes or not Shoes Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum: The Smithsonian Institution, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Sandra Gering Gallery, Kukje Gallery, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Whanki Foundation, Won Gallery, and numerous public and private collections.