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Lu Yim is a trans-disciplinary artist who works in experimental performance to situate pain and sensation within a queer and contemporary conversation.
They are a 2024-2025 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow (NY).
They are a 2024-2026 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (NY)

Their work has been presented at Performance Space NY, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Pageant (NY), Center for Performance Research (NY), and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
In 2023 they were a Queer | Art Fellow in Performance working with mentor Julie Tolentino.

Yim co-organizes with Physical Education, an artist-run collective, along with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Takahiro Yamamoto. They were a 2019 Fellow at UCross Foundation (WY) and 2020-2021 AIR at Center for Performance Research (NYC).
Yim holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery School of Art / Bard College (2019).

They are a personal trainer and somatic movement facilitator. Since 2020 they have hosted a virtual mutual-aid class ‘Action & Rest’ for folks dealing with burnout, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue.

Lu Yim
Queens, NY

EDUCATION

2019 MFA in Sculpture, Bard College, NY

2005 BA in Liberal Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, NY

AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS

2024-2026 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (NYC)

2024-2025 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (NYC)

2023 Queens Art Fund Individual Project Grant

2023 Queer | Art Mentorship Fellowship in Performance (USA)

2021 Artist in Residence at Center for Performance Research (NYC)

2019 Artist in Residence at Ucross Foundation (WY)

SELECTED PERFORMANCE WORK

2024 Brutality of Fatigue, Performance Space New York, NYC

2024 Pieces of Earth We Eat, TransFilmFest, Stockholm, SE

2024 Sympathetic Silks, The Woods, NYC

2023 Emblem, Sator Projects, Portland, OR

2022 FORM I, Pageant Space, NYC

2019 Octopus Series, Performance Space New York, NYC

2019 If the Present Form Reveals the Missing, Vacation Gallery, NYC

2015 Devastation Melody, Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, OR

SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE WORK and EXHIBITIONS

2024 move/touch, Sargents Daughters, NYC

Collaborative Drawing with Julie Tolentino

2022 Three Betrayals, No Place Gallery, OH

Choreography for Video Installation with Catalina Ouyang

2020 Secondary Character, Sculpture Center, NYC

Performance with Tingying Ma and Nam Pham

2019 Invocations When Nothing Else Works, ICA London

Performance and Text with Precious Okoyomon

2018 Futility of Preparedness, Linfield Gallery, OR

Performance and Sculpture with Physical Education

PUBLISHED POETRY + PERFORMANCE RELATED SUBMISSIONS

2021 “Dance for the Dead” Gathering Space

2021 “For Anytime” Ear Wave Event Issue Six

2021 “Making After Melancholia” Papers on Power, U of O

2020 “Clocks Silverado” Form IV: Steps

GUEST TEACHING + LECTURE PRESENTATIONS

2024 Swiss Institute, Summer Art Program

2023 Cooper Union, Sculpture

2023 Mass Art, Undergraduate Performance Ensemble

2023 Queer | Art, Artist Presentation

2022 Lewis & Clark, Contemporary Art Theory and Practice

2022 Portland State University, Studio Practice

2020 School of Art Institute of Chicago, Studio Practice

POETRY READINGS

2023 Crush Reading Series, Woodbine NYC

2023 Brooklyn Rail ‘In Conversation’, Virtual Reading NYC

2022 Form IV, Peter Detmold Park, NYC

2020 Crush Reading Series, Poetry Project NYC

SOMATIC DANCE + MOVEMENT FACILITATION

2024 Action & Rest, Virtual Mutual Aid Offering

2021 Action & Rest, Virtual Mutual Aid Offering

2020 Slow Jam, Knockdown Center with Catalina Ouyang, NYC

2020 Night Practice, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation

2018 Improvisation, Shehalem Art Center, OR