Minouk Lim

Minouk Lim
Born	1968
Education	École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Website	minouklim.com

Minouk Lim (born 1968) is a South Korean multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. She has had exhibitions at such institutes as National Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Walker Art Center, and the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum.

Lim was born in Daejeon, South Korea. At a young age, Lim moved to Seoul. She entered an art competition sponsored by the Little Angels where she was given an award as well as a scholarship for the art school. She enrolled at Ewha Womans University in 1985 to study painting. Lim became dissatisfied with the school and left during her last year. She, then, studied at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Lim started showing her work in South Korea in the late 1990s. In 1998, she created the installation Bus Stop for the exhibition City and Image: Food, Clothing, Shelter. The work was centered around the bus stop billboards in South Korea after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Many of the billboards were left blank. Lim placed non-commercial images in the billboards with the attempt to draw attention to the types of images consumed by the public.

Lim's video work New Ghost Town (2005) focuses on Yeongdeungpo and the redevelopment project set in place by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The New Ghost Town was a single-channel video that publicized her as an artist. She explored the idea of solitude, solidarity and the individuals of each other in South Korea. With the video taken place in Yeongdeungpo, a lot of representation was shown. Redevelopment was taken place by the former Seoul mayor Lee Myung-back under his failed new town policy. The redevelopment was promoted to improve standards of living, but it displaced many existing residents. In the video, a slam poet shouts lines such as, "Oh, my complex... Oh my housing commercial complex... I have nowhere to go. I'm a new-town ghost."

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