The Fall 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jan Tumlir and Jack Bankowsky.

Won Ju Lim, introduced by Yeon Kyung Kim

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

Won Ju Lim is a Korean American artist whose multimedia practice is grounded in the interactions of sculpture and architecture. It revolves around the play of real and fictional spaces drawing upon empirical and imaginary constructs that we rely on to move between multiple scales of interiority and exteriority.

A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at UCR Arts, Riverside; the Elzig Museum, Istanbul; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; the Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art, Seoul; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Her triennial and biennial exhibitions include Counterpublic Triennial 2026: Coyote Time, St. Louis; International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands; the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Münster Sculpture Biennale, Münster.

Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Lim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Woodbury University and an MFA in Studio Art from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Image: Won Ju Lim, That Sense of Complexity…, 2026, exhibition view, UCR Arts. Photo by Nikolay Maslov. Courtesy of the artists.

See the full Fall 2026 Seminar schedule here.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, David Kordansky, Jeffrey Deitch, Gattopardo, Tara Walters, Alan Hergott, and an anonymous donor.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.