Lim Anna
dealing with photograhic narratives
Anna Lim was born in South Korea in 1970, and received her Ph.D. in Photography from the Hongik University, in Seoul. She shows her sincere work activities through 16 solo exhibitions including <Rehearsal of Anxiety> (2018), <Frozen Hero> (2017), <Restructure of Climax> (2011), and more than 50 domestic and international group exhibitions. Her major works are visualizing the distribution system of media dealing with the weapons of war and the suffering of others between fiction and fact.
She has won the award in the ILWOO Foundation Photo Award (2020), Arles Photo Portfolio Review Award (2019), Korean Artist Project Artists (2017), Soorim Photography Cultural Award (2014), Raising Women Artists Award (2013), Sovereign Art Foundation Asia 30 Artists (2012), Public Art 4070 Project Artists (2012), New York Gallery Korea Selected as Young Artist of the Year (1999) and has been consistently recognized for its workability. As a creator who combines commercial studio experience and photography theory, the pursuit of self-reflective photographic behavior become sustainable perspective for the journey as an artist.
Award
2020 11th ILWOO Photography Award, HanJin Group, Seoul, Korea
2019 Arles 2019 Photo Folio Review Award
2017 Artist selected by Korean Artist Project, Korean Art Museum Association
2014 Soorim Photography Cultural Award by Soorim Cultural Foundation
2013 Korean Rising Women Artists Award by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea
2012 Sovereign Asian Art The top 30 finalists Award by Sovereign Art Foundation
2012 Artists of 4070 project Award by Public Art Magazine
1999 The Young Photographer of the Year Award by 'Gallery Korea' in New York
Education
2019 P.h.D in Photography, Hongik University, Korea
1996 M.A. in Photography & Mixed Media, California State University, Fullerton, USA
1992 B.F.A. in Photography, SangMyung University, Korea
Award prizes
2019 Arles 2019 Photo Folio Review Award
2017 Artist selected by Korean Artist Project, Korean Art Museum Association
2014 Soorim Photography Cultural Award by Soorim Cultural Foundation
2013 Korean Rising Women Artists Award by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea
2012 The top 30 finalists Award by Sovereign Art Foundation
2012 Artists of 4070 project Award by Public Art Magazine
1999 The Young Photographer of the Year Award by 'Gallery Korea' in New York
Solo Exhibition
2020 Anxiety ON/OFF, ILWOO Space, Seoul
2019 Mimicry-X, 291 Photographs, Seoul
2019 SHOW UP ; The Expression and Illusion of Weapons, Seo Hak-dong Gallery, Jeonju
2019 Imagine Leaning on Things, Seoi Gallery, Seoul
2018 Rehearsal of anxiety, Gallery LUX, Seoul
2017 White Imagination, Art Sebin, Seoul
2017 Frozen Hero, Space 22 Gallery, Seoul
2015 Frozen Objects, Jean Gallery, Seoul
2014 Concealed Imagination, Gallery INDEX, Seoul
2012 Irony-addicted, Jean Gallery, Seoul
2011 Restructure of Climax, Jean Gallery, Seoul
2010 The Blue Scar, Gallery NUDA, Daejeon
2009 Two Imaginary Plays, Gallery DOOIN, Seoul
2008 White Veil, Gallery IS, Seoul
2001 How Much Am I, Gallery LUX, Seoul
2000 To Keep my Soul, SK photo Gallery, Seoul
1998 Origami, Gallery Generous Miracle, New York
1998 My Money, 1998, Gallery Jadita, New York
1996 Witness, Gallery East, LA
1995 From a Body, Gallery Main, CSUF, LA
Selected Group Exhibition
2020 10 Years of Participation in the Sovereign Asian Arts Festival, Gallery Index, Seoul
2020 Let's Play at the Country Village Art Museum, Gureumma, Jirisan Culture and Arts Cooperative, Gyeongnam
2020 Unexpectedly, Project Sinpo, Incheon
2020 Synergy of Conflict, Gallery Kyul, Seoul
2019 Les Couleurs d'Arles Portfolio for 10 People, Gallery Lumos, Daegu
2019 Me and Them, Korean Photo Exhibition, Pingyaho International Photo Festival, China
2019 What am I going to do with pictures?, 3rd Busan International Photography Festival, Busan
2019 Anna's Arles, Ryu Ryu Ryu-heon Gallery, Seoul
2019 Summer Closer to Marmalade, Gallery Kyul, Seoul
2018 Memory and Imagination Variations, Hwasun County Cheonbulcheon Tower Photo Culture Center, Hwasun
2018 Gourmet dinner, Dambit cultual center, Damyang, Korea
2018 Variation of memory and imagination, Cheonbulcheontop PhotoCenter, Hwasun, Korea
2017 Community for Self-Reflection: State, Individuals and us, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2017 Focus on Korean Documentry , Photoville 2017, New York, USA
2016 My dear Country , Busan Art District P, Busan, Korea
2016 Seoul New Arirang, Seoul Photography Festival, Art Space Sei, Seoul
2016 Unusual Softness and Tremor, Seoul Innovation Park, Seoul
2015 Sweet Story, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
2015 Food Scape, Art Space J, Seoul
2014 Cinderella, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul
2014 Warhol and Friends, Jean Gallery, Seoul
2013 DongSangIMong, Korea University Museum, Seoul
2013 Hommage for Yayoi Kusama, Jean Gallery, Seoul
2013 White Summer, Lotte gallery, Daejeon
2013 2013 Contemporary art ruhr , Germany
2013 UTOPIA, Opera Gallery, Seoul
2013 Korea Contemporary Artist, Tjibaou culture center, New Caledonia
2013 The 2013-2013 Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Korea, Seoul
2013 Korean Dreamimg , Jungdong Gallery, Seoul
2012 Art 7 Cook . Sejong Center for performance arts, Seoul
2011 Microcosm, Amelia Johnson comtemporary, Hongkong
2011 Bridge, Bom Gallery, Seoul
2010 Very Special Day, Onemaunt, Seoul
2010 Sweet & Bitter, Bom Gallery, Seoul
2010 Pagus 21.5, Boutique Monaco, Seoul
2009 Serotonin Ⅱ, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2009 Circulation of Photography, Seoul Gallery, Seoul
2009 Message of Era, Hana Art Gallery, Seoul
2009 The snow white, Asoh Gallery, Seoul
2009 Urban & Culture, Jeonju Photo Festival , Jeonju
2009 Korea Contemporary Photo Now, Beijing, China
2009 Nature, Objects and Photography, Mulpa Gallery, Seoul
2008 Sweet Imagination , Lux Gallery, Seoul
2008 Moment, time, Era, KOWPA 10th , Lamer Gallery, Seoul
2007 Her Room , Doosan Gallery, Seoul
2007 Body & Flesh ,Trunk Gallery, Seoul
2006 Something about , Exchange Exhibition of Korean and German Female Artists, Germany
2004 11 photographer's preview Another World , Baeksang Memorial Hall, Seoul
2004 A midsummer night's dream , Gail Art Museum in Gyeonggi-do, Seoul
2003 Pink God , Insa Art Gallery, Seoul
2001 Treasure house in my mind, Hwan Gallery, Deagu
2000 Woman, a Beautiful Fiction, SK Gallery, Seoul
1999 Perception, Gallery KOREA, New York
1999 Erotica, 1999 , Gallery MBM, New York
1998 Special Happiness , Gallery Art Beam, Seoul
1998 International salon 98, Gallery Ward-Nasse, New York
1998 Summer Encounters Vital International Young Artists , Gallery Generas Miracle, New York
Books
2017 『Frozen Hero』, Lim Anna, NOONBIT Publishing Co.
2008 『White Veil』, Lim Anna, L Company Co. Ltd.
2002 『Criticizing Photography』, Terry Barrett, Translated by Lim Anna, NOONBIT Publishing Co.
Collections
ArtBank , Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
The Sovereign Art Foundation
SPACE22, Seoul, Korea
ArtSpace J, Korea
JEAN Art Gallery
SEOI Gallery
SOOLIM Cultural Foundation
Space OPT
Art SEBIN
SG Hankooksamgong
Nexon