Kangmin Lim is a mixed media artist and educator based in Columbus. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2020, winning the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for exceptional achievement. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2018.
Lim worked in the animation industry as a background designer at Bento Box Entertainment and worked on several shows for the streaming channels Netflix and MAX, including Mulligan (2023), Paradise PD S4 (2022), and The Prince (2021). She is also a freelance animator and worked on music videos and educational animations. Her award-winning short film Under the Dark Clouds (2020) was selected for film festivals all around the world, including the Palm Springs International Animation Festival, Los Angeles Animation Festival, and Warsaw Animation Film Festival. Lim’s first solo exhibition was ZZZ in 2018.
Lim’s work varies from pen drawing to experimental animation, exploring unconsciousness through dreaming and self-reflection. She teaches animation-filmmaking and visual development at CCAD. She loves penguins.
