brooklyn, ny


To live is difficult. Even without anyoneโ€™s malice, we sufferโ€” often from the discrepancy between situations and our expectations.

A piece of my heart is thrown into the deep well at every life event. The heart is too heavy for me to carry. The unseen pieces of the heart are belittled, as if they donโ€™t exist if they are not seen. They are uncared for. They stagnate in the well. They rot.

The well floods one day. The stench is unbearable. I go through each of the decomposed pieces. These ghosts must have had a body once, a name. They have already deteriorated into a huge single lump, difficult and aching. I, as the biggest perpetrator, study these lumps on paper, naively hoping that one day the well would clear out.




์‚ถ์€ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ์•…์˜ ์—†์ด๋„, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ๋ถˆ์ผ์น˜๋กœ์ธํ•ด ์ค„๊ณง ๊ดด๋กœ์›€์— ์‚ด๊ฒŒ๋œ๋‹ค.

์‚ถ์˜ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋‚ด ๋งˆ์Œ๋“ค์ด ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์›Œ ์ด๋“ค์„ ์šฐ๋ฌผ์— ๋‚ดํŒฝ๊ฐœ์ณ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ๋˜์ ธ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ณง ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋“ค์„ ๊ฒฝ์‹œํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋Œ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋งˆ์Œ๋“ค์€ ๋‚ด ์•ˆ์— ๊ณ ์—ฌ ์ฉ์€ ์šฐ๋ฌผ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์–ด๋Š๋‚  ์šฐ๋ฌผ์ด ๋„˜์ณค๋‹ค. ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์•…์ทจ์— ์šฐ๋ฌผ์•ˆ์— ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ๋งˆ์Œ๋“ค์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊บผ๋‚ด์–ด ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ์ด ์œ ๋ น๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉ์–ด๋ฆฌ์—๋„ ๋ณธ๋ž˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ฒ ์ง€. ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ณ , ์—‰ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์„ค์ผœ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํ•œ ๋ฉ์–ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ , ์•„ํ”„๋‹ค. ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฉ์–ด๋ฆฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณธ๋‹ค. ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€ ์ด ์šฐ๋ฌผ์ด ๋น„์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ฉฐ.





Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York) 2011-2015



Solo Exhibitions


2019 The Corner. N/A Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

2015 9699 Ghost Days. Pratt Institute East Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.



Group Exhibitions


2024 Bandaged Moments. Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States

2024 How are you doing? TheBLANC Art Space, New York,
New York, United States

2020 Homegrown. Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York, United States

2019 South Brooklyn Open Studios 2019. Trestle Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

2018 Small Works Group Show for Gowanus OpenStudio 2018. Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

2016 ๋ณดํ†ต์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ๅฑ• (Common Anxiety). Anne Hong Salon, Seoul, South Korea.

2013 ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๅฑ• (Sommer). Anne Hong Salon, Seoul, South Korea.






mutato | ๋ฌดํ…Œ์ดํ† 









mutato (๋ฌดํ…Œ์ดํ† ) 1
2024
graphite, wax pastel and oil pastel on vellum
1206.5 x 889 mm

quake | ๊ธด ๋ฐค (๋ถˆ์•ˆ)


The night multiplies forever in the silent noise and the heart bubbles up with anxiety. The darkness flooding the space covers the trembling body. But this blanket is too heavy โ€” it suffocates.


์ •์ ์€ ๋ฐค์„ ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ฑ„์šด๋‹ค.  ๊ทธ ์†Œ์Œ ์†์— ๋ฐค์€ ๋ฌดํ•œ์œผ๋กœ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•œ ๊ฑฐํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ‘ผ๋‹ค. ๋œ๋œ ๋–จ๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์šด ์–ด๋‘์›€์ด ๋ฎ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด๋ถˆ์€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์›Œ ์ˆจ์„ ์‰ด ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค.






imburani (๊ธด ๋ฐค) 3
2022
graphite, wax pastel and oil pastel on paper
1174.75 x 927.1 mm




imburani (๊ธด ๋ฐค)
2022
graphite, wax pastel and oil pastel on paper
838mm x 712 mm




imburani (๊ธด ๋ฐค) 2
2022
graphite and wax pastel on paper
610mm x 457mm







birthday | ์ƒ์ผ็”Ÿๆ—ฅ

Yesterday may have been a failure or success, one may have been sad or happy. Nevertheless, we are promised a new morning everyday until the day our breath ceases โ€” we are (re)born in the everyday opportunity to live a new life until the death. I celebrate the birth-day, the things we live, love and endure once again today.


์–ด์ œ์— ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„์ง€๋„, ํ˜น์€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์„์ง€๋„, ๋ฌด์—‡๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ธฐ๋ปํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์Šฌํผ ํ–ˆ์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์นจ์ด ์ฃฝ๋Š” ๋‚  ๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ฝ์†๋˜์–ด์žˆ๋‹ค โ€” ์ฃฝ์„ ๋•Œ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งค์ผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์ด ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์†์— ๋งค์ผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ , ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฒ„ํ…จ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ƒ์ผ็”Ÿๆ—ฅ์„ โ€” ์‚ด์•„์žˆ์Œ์„, ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ๋ƒ„์„โ€” ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Everyday is my birthday.






birthday-20
2024
graphite and wax pastel on paper
568mm x 565 mm




birthday-14
2021
graphite and wax pastel on paper
290mm x 230mm




birthday-8
2021
graphite oil pastel and watercolor on paper
228mm x 350mm




birthday-4
2020
graphite and wax pastel on paper
210mm x 295mm




birthday-3
2020
graphite and wax pastel on paper
210mm x 295mm




birthday invitation
2020
graphite and wax pastel on paper
210mm x 295mm







still life | ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž

The still โ€œlife,โ€ from its corner, slowly blinks its countless eyes and watches things afar. It sits and watches, then rots.
It is a reflection of myself.


๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ž๋Š” ๊ท€ํ‰์ด์— ์•‰์•„ ์ˆ˜๋งŒ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฟˆ๋ป‘๊ฟˆ๋ป‘ ๊ฐ์•˜๋‹ค ๋œจ๋ฉฐ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์•‰์•„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ฉ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ ์ž๋Š” ๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฑฐ์šธ์ด๋‹ค.





Still Life-24 (Pickled ์žฅ์•„์ฐŒ)
2023
graphite, oil stick, oil and wax pastels on vellum
1,090mm x 1430mm




still life-23
2022-2023
graphite, oil stick, oil and wax pastels on paper
1,320mm x 1545mm




still life-1 (blind potato)
2021
graphite, oil pastel, and wax pastel on paper
705mm x 1054mm




still life-19
2021
graphite and wax pastel on paper
229mm x 305mm




still life-15
2021
graphite on vellum on graphite on vellum
215mm x 325mm






comfort city




We came to the city with the anticipation of our own. We flow, occasionally in companionship, and more often in solitude. On these unbroken pathways, it is my mere hope that I, we, live on.

Sending my awkward support and comfort,
hawu juhye lim


์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ €๋งˆ๋‹ค์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ์™”๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์ข…์ข… ํ™€๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์ง€์•Š์€ ๊ธธ ์œ„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๊ฐ€, ๋˜ ๋‹น์‹ ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€๋”” ๊ณ„์† ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ.

๋‚œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์–ด์ค์€ ์‘์›๋ฟ์ด ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์šฐ ์ž„์ฃผํ˜œ ๋“œ๋ฆผ




comfort city



comfort city is a collective project with other city dwellers

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comfort city | sua kim

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hawu juhye lim and sua kim
๋„์‹œ์ธ 1- 88, comfort city
2020
ipad drawing on screenshot photo from @_kimsua