Bio
Kangmin Lim is a mixed media artist and educator based in Columbus. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2020, winning the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for exceptional achievement. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2018.
Lim worked in the animation industry as a background designer at Bento Box Entertainment and worked on several shows for the streaming channels Netflix and MAX, including Mulligan (2023), Paradise PD S4 (2022), and The Prince (2021). She is also a freelance animator and worked on music videos and educational animations. Her award-winning short film Under the Dark Clouds (2020) was selected for film festivals all around the world, including the Palm Springs International Animation Festival, Los Angeles Animation Festival, and Warsaw Animation Film Festival. Lim’s first solo exhibition was ZZZ in 2018.
Lim’s work varies from pen drawing to experimental animation, exploring unconsciousness through dreaming and self-reflection. She teaches animation-filmmaking and visual development at CCAD. She loves penguins.
Artist Statement
I’m a mixed media artist who explores the idea of the visualization of psychological home through dreaming. As an animator with a fine arts background, I tend to use traditional and digital mediums to create imaginary words that reflect personal experiences and social structures I’ve been part of. Since I’d like to question myself and the borderlands of consciousness, dreams have been one of my biggest inspirations. The contrast between familiar visual representation and unusual scenes mixed from dream fragments become a blueprint for a watercolor and pen drawing.You can be lost in a surreal world and enjoy eccentric juxtapositions. Also, you can follow the protagonist to elaborate portions of the story in a certain view it provides in animation. I use dream scenes as a storytelling tool to mirror characters’ deep emotions and mental health. Through a closer look at each detail, audiences can create their own responses based on individual interpretations. By reorganizing memories and finding ways of expressing myself, I’m creating my own psychological home.