Lu Yim

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 + 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, University of Oregon
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