Won Ju Lim in conversation with Graham Harman and Daniel Tovar

Won Ju Lim is recipient of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. Lim’s work has been exhibited worldwide in 40+ solo and 70+ group exhibitions, including those at the Elzig Museum, Istanbul; University Galleries, California State University, Sacramento; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Yerba Buena Art Center, Sa Francisco; the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Art, Seoul; the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Museum Haus Ester, Krefeld; Museum der Moderne, Salzurg; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Casino Luxemboug – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Her biennale exhibitions include the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale; Architecture, Art, and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries; the Gwangju Biennale; Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum; and the Müenster Sculpture Biennale. Her work is included in international public collections such as those of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis; Elzig Collection, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; M+, Hong Kong; Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Orsières, Switzerland; La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; and the Vancouver Art Gallery among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the 2016 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship, the Creative Capacity Fund, the Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowshi (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), the Korea Arts Foundation for Visual Arts Grant, and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists

Daniel Tovar is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. He is Liberal Arts faculty at SCI-Arc and a board member of Monte Vista Projects. His multi-disciplinary work—incorporating audio, video, and sculpture—has been exhibited and performed at Monte Vista Projects, Wonzimer Gallery, Coaxial Arts Foundation, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others.