LIM Nosik

LIM Nosik (b. 1989) explores the act of witnessing the invisible—those entities that exist within and beyond the world perceived through the physical body—through the process of painting. In his recent practice, LIM visualizes the spatial and temporal volume between himself and his subjects through a process of layering: oil-painted landscapes are blurred and reworked with transparent oil pastel. By softening visible forms through this visual medium, he evokes the presence of what cannot be seen. In his paintings, the landscape emerges as a result where objective facts about a place and subjective impressions are ambiguously interwoven. The artist has continuously experimented with transposing vast natural landscapes into the exhibition space. Going beyond mere representation, he seeks to evoke new spatial experiences by translating the complex senses and emotions inherent in a landscape onto the canvas. Through his ongoing exploration of landscapes as a fusion of external forms and internal imagery, LIM aims to rediscover the meaning of painting itself—as an act that bridges the external world and the inner self.

LIM Nosik was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1989. He received his BFA in Oriental Painting at Hongik University in 2015, and MFA in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts at Korea National University of Arts in 2017. He has held solo exhibitions at various institutions such as Space Willing N Dealing (Seoul, Korea, 2025), Space Æfter (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Project Space Sarubia (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea, 2020), Artspace Boan 2 (Seoul, Korea, 2020) and Hapjungjigu (Seoul, Korea, 2017), as well as group exhibitions held at Hite Collection (Seoul, Korea, 2025), König Telegraphenamt (Berlin, Germany, 2025), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), SongEun (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Art Center White Block (Seoul, Korea, 2022), SFAC Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul, Korea, 2021), Amado Art Space (Seoul, Korea, 2020), and more. He was the artist-in-residence at the SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea) in 2019, Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea) in 2020, and the SFAC Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul, Korea) in 2021. The artist gained attention for being selected in the OCI Young Creatives in 2015, and Kumho Young Artist 2022. In 2025, he was awarded the Heo Baek‑ryeon Art Prize as part of the Gwangju Culture and Arts Awards. His works are collected by institutions such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Art Bank, OCI Museum, Ilmin Museum of Art, ARARIO MUSEUM and more.