Lim Won Ji (oneg)

Lim Won Ji (oneg) is an artist born and raised in South Korea. She earned her BFA in Ceramics & Glass from Hongik University, where she developed a material-based practice grounded in clay and glass. Through this training, she became deeply attentive to how materials respond to pressure, heat, gravity, and time.

She is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she has expanded her practice to include a wider range of materials and processes. Her work investigates the human body not as a fixed form, but as a site of constant reaction—one that leaves subtle traces as it moves through space, encounters resistance, and responds instinctively before conscious thought.

"Human existence is never complete or fully resolved—the body is continuously shaped by external forces rather than guided by a predetermined purpose."

Influenced by the idea that human existence is never complete or fully resolved, she considers the body as something continuously shaped by external forces rather than guided by a predetermined purpose. She is drawn to moments where intention breaks down and involuntary responses emerge, treating these moments as material evidence of being alive. Through sculpture, installation, and process-based experimentation, she explores traces that exist between presence and absence, fragility and structure, and permanence and erosion.