Ji Eun Lim

Biography

Ji Eun Lim is currently pursuing her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts atTufts University in Boston, where she expands her practice through experimentation with diverse materials and methods that push the boundaries of contemporary art.

She holds two MAT degrees in Art Education—one from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and another from Kyung-hee University in Korea—as well as a BFA from Hong-ik University in Korea. Lim has presented her work in two solo exhibitions and has participated in more than twenty group exhibitions across New York City, Korea, and Boston.

Artist Statement

I create figurative–abstract imagery through a personal visual language, working across drawing, painting, and ceramic sculpture to articulate emotions, thoughts, and reflections shaped by lived experience. My studio practice evolves through sustained material experimentation, particularly through an ongoing investigation into the relationship between painting and ceramics.

Through this process, I depict scenes and objects in figurative-abstract forms that function both as visual elements and as carriers of subjective memory and feeling. Central to my work is an inquiry into selfunderstanding—one continuously shaped by the surrounding world and by my experience as a Korean woman living in the United States. As my environment and life circumstances shift, so too do my perspectives, values, and emotional priorities, and these transitions become embedded in the forms and spaces I create.

My work investigates the construction of a cohesive environment between three-dimensional ceramic sculptures and two-dimensional paintings. I explore how these distinct modes of making—each governed by its own material logic—can enter into a harmonic dialogue within a shared space. Ambiguous abstraction within the paintings, when situated in relation to the ceramic forms, invites viewers to contemplate layered emotional associations and expands the interpretive possibilities of the sculptural elements.

Through this interplay, I examine how differing material and formal languages can coexist, interact, and mutually enrich one another, forming a unified spatial and conceptual framework that reflects the complexity of personal and cultural identity.  

Website: jieunlim.net

Instagram: @limjieun.studio