Lim Su Bin
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Nationality: South Korea
Born 1990 in Korea
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Education
MFA, Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hongik University
BFA, Western Painting, College of Fine Arts, University of Ulsan
Exhibitions
Solo
2025 Temperature of Imagination: Pink Utopia – ArtCene, Seoul
2024 Welcome Pink Kong – Art Eton, Seoul
2020 Pink Utopia – Art Message, Seoul
2019 Pink Spectrum: Invitation of the Seeds of Happiness – Yo Gallery, Seoul
2017 Pink World – Lotte Department Store Museum, Seoul
2017 Pink Utopia – Art Eton, Seoul
2016 Pink Utopia – Gallery ONUE, Seoul
2015 Pink Utopia – Gallery On, Busan
2014 Pink Dreamscape – Culture Center, Ulsan
2013 The Birth of Pink – Local Arts Center, Seoul
2012 Seeds of Happiness – Community Gallery, Ulsan
2011 Color of Utopia – Student Exhibition, University of Ulsan
Duo
2024 Love More – Seraphim, Pankyo
2023 Becoming the Narrative Point of Meta-Bus – Kensington Resort, Jeju
2021 Invitation to the Forest – Jangsaengpo Cultural Center, Ulsan
2021 Park Jonggoo & Lim Su Bin Duo Exhibition – Insadong Art Plaza, Seoul
2019 La Compagnie – Geumcheon Art Binnale Project 1,2,7, Seoul
2019 Kim Sungjin & Lim Su Bin Art 21 Planning Exhibition – AK Plaza Headquarters, Seoul
2018 Seeds of Happiness – Gallery ONUE, Seoul
2016 Seeds of Happiness – Art Space Numoo, Yangsan
Group
2025 Full of Luck – GALLERY_DA, Hanam
2025 Beginning – GALLERY Banditrazos, Seoul
2024 DJ KNOWJAM_Fun-knowing Daejeon – Commons Field, Daejeon
2024 The Spatial Magician – L.C.M. Gallery, Taiwan
2024 CZ SUMMER – ARTCUBE 2R2, Seoul
2024 Zoo in the Museum – Keioum Gallery, Seoul
2024 Art樂 Festival – Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
2024 AG Artist Union Exhibition – AG Gallery, Gwacheon
2024 The Feast of Art and Jewelry – L.C.M. Gallery, Taiwan
2023 Today’s Young Artists in Gangwon – Chuncheon National Museum Complex Cultural Center, Gangwon
2023 Wild Wild West – mM Art Center, Pyeongtaek
2022 Daecheong Eoram – Daedeok Culture Center, Daejeon
2021 Korea-Japan Exchange Exhibition: Another Encounter – Maurice Gallery, Daejeon
2020 Korea-Japan Art Communication Exhibition – Forest Gallery, Cheongju
2019 New Scenery by Young Artists – Shinsegae Gallery, Busan
2018 EMERGING CANVAS V – Indian Museum, Seoul
2018 Double Art Christmas Exhibition – LG U+ Art & Healing Gallery, Seoul
2018 Special Heavy Rain Show – Ulsan Culture & Arts Center
2018 Ulsan Young Artists Invitational: Ode to Youth – Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan
2017 Next Door Alice – Artspace312, Seoul
Awards
2020 Selected as Young Artists by the Mirae Modern Art Museum
2015 KT 130th Anniversary Art Contest – Excellence Award
2015 Ulsan Cultural Foundation Art Contest – Excellence Award\
2014 MBC / Art People New Artist Contest – Selected Artist
Collection of Works
Bundang Seoul National University Hospital
Songwon Land
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Through her work, Lim Su Bin builds what she calls a Pink Utopia — a space where joy, tranquility, and renewal coexist. Her signature motif, the pink horse, represents the artist’s own journey toward healing and hope. It becomes a gentle guide, leading viewers through dreamlike forests, glimmering pink fields, and into moments of pause and reflection. Lim draws inspiration from the small, intimate rhythms of daily life — tending plants, observing seasons, gathering seeds — and transforms them into poetic visual narratives. Her recurring image of the pink bean (핑크콩) symbolizes the seed of happiness, a metaphor for the possibility of turning ordinary life into a utopia. Her canvases, rich with soft yet vibrant hues, blur the boundaries between reality and imagination. Each work is an invitation to rest, recharge, and plant one’s own “happiness seed” to cultivate peace in the everyday.
By expanding her compositions with aerial perspectives and layered colors, Lim creates immersive worlds that viewers can step into. Her paintings are not merely landscapes but emotional sanctuaries, reminding us that even in a busy, fragmented world, moments of serenity and wonder are within reach.
“My paintings are sanctuaries where the pink horse and pink bean guide us toward moments of rest and rediscovery. Each work is an invitation to plant a seed of happiness, turning everyday life into a personal utopia. Through these pink worlds, I hope to share tranquility, courage, and the joy of imagining a brighter future.”
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