Minouk Lim
Minouk Lim (b. 1968 Daejon, South Korea) studied fine arts at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She concentrates on diverse faces, exploring absurd aspects of society by identifying various strategies of visual production through collaboration with artists working with various media. Her work is usually a satire of the reckless development and money-driven landscape of society. She recently won the 7th Hermes Korea Art Prize (2007), as well as the Gwangju Bank Prize at the 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006). Selected exhibitions include: Somewhere in Time at Arsonje Center in Seoul (2006); 9th Women's Film Festival in Seoul at the Arteon Cinema in Seoul (2006), Symptom of Adoloescence at the Rodin Gallery in Seoul (2006), Parallel Life at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany (2005), Where is My Friend's Home? at Kunstlerhaus in Frankfurt (2005), and This is Not a Love Letter (! flyer project) at the Marronier Gallery in Seoul (2004). Minouk LIm lives and works in Seoul.