CV — CHAELIM LIM

b. 1998/12/13
 +1 (831) 266-5960
 forest.lim.3@gmail.com


EDUCATION

MFA Candidate, Environmental Art and Social Practice, University of California, Santa Cruz (Sep 2024 – Aug 2026)

Thesis committee member: Jennifer Parker, Laurie Palmer, María Puig de la Bellacasa

Thesis topic: Hauntology of Taxidermy: Making (Ghost)Body

Investigating Jeju, Korea’s shamanistic ghost-body making technology and taxidermy as hauntological techniques that differently construct bodies and generate knowledge within ritual and scientific epistemologies.


MA in Posthuman Studies, Ewha Womans University (Mar 2022 – Aug 2024)

Advisor: Professor Ae-Ryung Kim

Master’s thesis:  Examining the Politics of Art via Haraway’s Concept of “SF Patterns”

Compares Jacques Rancière’s critique of political art with Donna Haraway’s affirmative account of activist world-making through her concept of “SF patterns,” to provide conceptual ground for the political possibilities of art.


BFA in Painting / BA in Philosophy / BA in History of Art, Minor in Physics, Ewha Womans University (Mar 2017 – Feb 2022)
 Dean’s List (6 semesters), summa cum laude

Philosophy Advisor: Professor. KIM Seonhee

Thesis: A Critique of the Grand Memory Narrative and Memory as Becoming: Nietzsche and Deleuze

Examines dominant narratives of the Gwangju Democratization Movement through Nietzsche and Deleuze, framing memory as a process of becoming.

Painting Advisor: Professor. Moon Kyungwon

Graduation Exhibition: <Sugar Body> (2021)



EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES (SELECTED)

2026 — MFA Thesis Exhibition, Picking Up Shells Amid a Tsunami, Sesnon Salon, USA
 2025 — Artist Residency, El Hacedor, Monsters: to Embrace or to Kill, El Hacador, Spain
 2025 — Group Exhibition, Amending Worlds: Rewriting Futures, MAH Santa Cruz, USA
 2024 — Solo Project, Ghost Body Workshop, Sesnon Salon, USA
 2024 — Lecture Performance, Interplanetary Dora-Dure Conference, Seoul, Korea
 2023 — Curated Exhibition, GOST Funeral Agency, Seoul, Korea
 2023 — Group Exhibition, project: ssang, Seoul, Korea
 2022 — Artist Residency, Pedvale Art Park, Latvia
 2020 — Artist Residency, Jaguar Luna Collective, Costa Rica
 2020 — Group Exhibition, 60 Days of Lockdown, Chengdu, China
 2019 — Group Exhibition, Boundary: Please Cross the Line, Seoul, Korea


HONORS & AWARDS

2025 — Norris Center Art + Science Graduate Fellowship, UCSC
 2025 — EASP Graduate Irwin Fellowship, UCSC
 2024 — Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence and Equity (ADFEE), UCSC
 2024 — Coha-Gunderson Prize, Speculative Futures, UCSC
 2020 — Overseas Artists Residency Support Grant, Arts Council Korea


PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Lim, Chaelim. “Ghost Body Workshop: Meeting gime, Jeju’s Shamanistic Paper Technique.” El Hacedor AIR, Bilbao, Spain, 2025
 “Composing Disaster: Scientific Facts and Fiction.” Guest Lecture, UCSC, 2024
 Examining the Politics of Art via Haraway’s Concept of “SF Patterns.” MA thesis, Ewha Womans University, 2024. Accessed via Ewha dCollection: https://lib.ewha.ac.kr/search/detail/CATTOT000002258630.
 “‘Magic Wand,’ ‘Sugar Strata,’ and the ‘Lolita Lady.’” Lecture Performance, BGA Index, Seoul, 2024
 “Now Is Never Finite: Jiho Moon’s Art as Scientific Practice.” NWRSS Colloquium, Seoul, 2023
 “The Embodiment of Lolita Subculture.” ARKO Art & Tech Festival, Seoul, 2022 

“The Embodiment of Lolita Subculture: Focusing on Katherine Hayles.” Session talk at the Network for Women Researchers in Science Studies (NWRSS) 2nd Colloquium, Seoul, 2022.



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Network for Women Researchers in Science Studies
 Art Director, Queer Film Team Exhuma