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.
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). In 2023 they worked as a Queer | Art Fellow in Performance with mentor Julie Tolentino.
They were a 2024-2025 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow (NY) and are currently a 2024-2026 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (NY).
Yim holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery School of Art / Bard College (2019).
Outside of the studio, 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.
Photo Credit:
Golden for Queer | Art Community Portrait Project 2024.
[Lu stands in a public park in Brooklyn, NY wearing the same hues of brown, purple, and gold, as the fall leaves on the ground and lingering in the trees. Hands in their pockets, they basque in the sun with a big smile on their
round face.]
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