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Sculpture & Installation
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Selected Works
Won Ji Lim (ONEG) is a South Korean artist based in Chicago, currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her BFA in Ceramics & Glass from Hongik University in Seoul.
Working across sculpture, installation, and process-based experimentation, Lim explores how bodily and psychological experiences take shape through materials, objects, and space. Her earlier work approached the body through fragmentation, reconstruction, and residue. Her current practice examines hypervigilance, anticipation, and the desire for control, focusing on the gestures and structures through which people seek a sense of security.
Organizing, aligning, binding, checking, and correcting recur throughout her work. These actions establish relationships among objects while revealing the attention and effort required to sustain them. Materials such as hog casing, rope, glass, metal, soil, and decaying matter introduce different conditions of tension, fragility, resistance, and change. Their behavior continually reshapes the arrangements she constructs.
More recently, Lim has extended these concerns into personal rules, archival processes, and participatory activities. Across these approaches, she explores how attempts to create order offers temporary reassurance while generating further uncertainty, and how control is continually negotiated through bodily action, material change, and encounters with others.
“Attempts to create order offers temporary reassurance while generating further uncertainty.” Won Ji LimPage 04
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — Chicago, IL
Hongik University — Seoul, South Korea
UNBOUND Gallery — Seoul, South Korea
Leslie Wolfe Gallery — Chicago, IL
SAIC MacLean Crit Space — Chicago, IL
SAIC Gallery — Chicago, IL
Compound Yellow Gallery — Chicago, IL
SAIC Sculpture Base Space — Chicago, IL
Hongik University, The Museum of Contemporary Art — Seoul, South Korea
NONscaled Gallery — Seoul, South Korea
Yeonnamjang Gallery — Seoul, South Korea
Hongik University, The Museum of Contemporary Art — Seoul, South Korea
Hongik University, The Museum of Contemporary Art — Seoul, South Korea
Artist Feature, Online Magazine
Artist Feature, Online Magazine
Curatorial Essay, Online
Artist Feature, Online Magazine
Artist Interview, Online Magazine
Secondary Editorial Feature, Online Magazine
Artist Profile Feature, Online Platform
Feature Article, Online Magazine
Artist Interview, Online Magazine
Secondary Editorial Feature, Online Magazine
Secondary Feature, Online Magazine
Artist Feature, Online Magazine
Curatorial Essay, Online Magazine
Artist Interview, Online Magazine
Available for exhibitions, commissions, studio visits, and collaborations.
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