Margeaux Lim is an artist with an environmental agenda who aims to bridge the gap between humans and the environment, addressing the disconnect caused by our anthropocentric culture. By working with found objects, natural iconography, and symbiotic cycles, she creates immersive and ephemeral installations that engage the senses. Lim’s work is not merely observational; it speculates on kinetic energy and relationships among various forms of life, both macro and micro.
She explores the ecology of human and non-human relationships through the study of growing organisms, flowing water, and the juxtaposition of natural and industrial materials. These elements become collaborators, producing new events and encounters that result in a continuous orchestra of art taking root. Her work highlights the regenerative abilities of nature, prompting a reevaluation of how humans engage in this ongoing cycle—an effort to restore ecocentrism. Lim believes that when we begin to view life less as a hierarchy and more horizontal, we can start to work with nature rather than against it.
Lim graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), where she focused on installation and ceramics. She has participated in numerous residencies and received several awards, including Starworks AIR, Odyssey ClayWorks AIR, The Steel Yard AIR, the Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) Award in 2022, the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award in 2021/2022, the Emerging Artists Exhibition at Summerfair 2021, and contributions to the DAAP National Conference on the Beginning Design Students (NCBDS) in 2019.
Exhibitions:
Open Studio 5, FemLink-Art, Puerto Rico. December 2022
A Stain and Tumble, The Social House Blink, Cincinnati, OH. October 2022
The Steel Yard Artist Residency Show, Machines With Magnets, Providence, RI. August 2022
A Curated Nature, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. April 2022
The Pineapple Party, Findley Market, Cincinnati OH, September 2021
Trinity, Online Exhibition (trinityexhibition.com). April 2021.
Emerging Artists Exhibition, Summerfair Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. January 2021.
Lacuna, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. January 2020.
Vice Versa group show, Puerto Rico. July 2019.
PAR Projects group show, Cincinnati, OH. March 2019.
Talk to Me group show, OSU Urbana Arts Space, Columbus OH. February 2019.
Stages of Rot solo show, Tabula Rasa Gallery, CIncinnati, OH. November 2019.
Cocoons and Infestation, Art Walk Washington Park, Cincinnati, OH. October 2019.
Nature Morte, Art Walk Washington Park, Cincinnati, OH. October 2019.
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, OH. October 2019.
Public sculpture, Clifton Fest, Cincinnati, OH. October 2019.
Totality group show, 840 gallery, Cincinnati, OH. October 2018.
My Back Hurts group show, 840 gallery, Cincinnati, OH. September 2018.
Mind Over Matter group show, 840 gallery, Cincinnati, OH. March 2018.
Awards and Achievements:
Starworks artist residency, Star, NC. 2023
Odyssey ClayWorks artist residency, Asheville, NC. 2023
The Steel Yard ceramic artist resident, Providence, RI, 2022
Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) Award, 2022
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Nominee, 2021/2022
Nominated and exhibited in the Emerging Artists Exhibition Summerfair Cincinnati, 2021
5 pieces in the DAAP National Conference on the Beginning Design Students (NCBDS), 2018.
State Finalist of Governor's Youth Art Exhibition (300 pieces displayed out of 11,500 entries), 2017.
Publications:
International Sculpture Center vol. 39/ no. 5. 2021
Art Hole, January 2020 publication