Lee Lim

Youngheui Lee Lim is a Korean contemporary artist and an avid student of calligraphy and fine art. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A from Ehwa University in Seoul Korea and has been living and creating art in New York for twenty years.

From 1995 to 1996, Lim volunteered to paint 103 Korean martyrs on canvas for the St. Paul Chung Ha Sang Catholic Church in Des Plaines, IL. This work inspired her focus on figures and postures, and on empathizing with different perspectives. After her first solo show at the Culture Center in Pomona, NY in 2006, she further developed her style, emphasizing the line. Her work since then represents a body and dialogue of lines limning human stories and relationships.

Lim was one of 26 artists selected for the 2021 Social Distancing Festival in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York and Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, PA. Her work was recently featured at the Rotunda Gallery in New Rochelle, NY, Riverfront Gallery in Yonkers, NY, Stable Gallery in Ridgewood NJ and Future Dream West Nyack, NY in 2022.

Lim teaches art to students living with autism and Down’s Syndrome at the New Beginning School in Cresskill, NJ.  

As a child, I developed empathy for people's struggles and emotions, as well as an interest in my own emotions. My work gives shape and space to these ineffable emotions. With multiple lines, my recent work focuses on my own emotions and narrative arc. The lines both create personal space and boundaries and interweave and connect me with others’ worlds and stories. Through the repetition of lines, I strive to define my identity and make tangible meaning of myself as an artist and person.

Youngheui Lee Lim

Exhibition

2024  Lavish Gallery Tenafly, NJ

          Brian Bridge Art Contest, the Connect Gallery Chicago, IL

          Rockland Art Festival Nyack, NY

2023  AHL Art Fair 2023 AHL Gallery NYC, NY

          Kinosaito’s 2023 Winter Call Kinosaito Arts Center Verplanck, NY

         'Mint Condition' Midwest Nice Virtual Exhibition Aberdeen, SD

          'Childhood Unmuted Online Art Exhibit' Danbury, CT

2022  'Color for Winter' Riverfront Gallery Yonkers, NY

          'The Color of nature' Stable Gallery Ridgewood, NJ

          'Memento Mori' Riverfront Gallery Yonkers, NY

          'The Subjective Portrait' Rotunda Gallery New Rochelle, NY

           Future Dreams Virtual Art Exhibit & Fundraiser West Nyack, NY

           Future Dreams Exhibit Pearl River Library Pearl River, NY

2021  Social Distance Festival NYC, NY

          'Almost Endless' 4 x 6 Exhibition Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Altoona, PA

          'Struggle, An Exhibition of Our Times' Rotunda Gallery New Rochelle, NY

          'Drawing in a Time of Renewal' Online Exhibition LIC-A's second annual drawing exhibition            

                Long Island City, NY

2008   Solo Exhibition the Pomona Culture Center Pomona, NY

            Art Walk Nyack, NY

Relevant Experience

1995 -1996 103 Korean Martyrs mural at St. Paul Chung Ha Sang Catholic Church in

                      Des Plain, IL.      

Work

2019 - 2020 Art Teacher at New Beginning Saturday Program in Cresskill, NJ.

2021 - Present Art Teacher at New Day Program in Norwood, NJ.

Education

1988 B.F.A in Painting Ehwa Woman's University, Seoul, Korea

1991 M.F.A in Painting Ehwa Woman's University, Seoul, Korea

New York

United States