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copyright 2007 Pauline Lim
Last updated 3/31/08


Date of Birth: November 3, 1966 | Place of Birth: Clarinda, Iowa

Education:
1984 Graduated cum laude from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
1988 A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies (emphasis on painting). Studied under Carole Bolsey, Christopher James, Alfred DeCredico, Toshi Katayama, Joseph Masheck.

Exhibitions:
2008 "Point of View: Women Creating", Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA.
2008 FIRE, group exhibit curated by Pauline Lim, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
2007 Group exhibit, Gallery Penumbra, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA.
2007 Group exhibit, BAAK Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.
2007 Windows Art Project, juried art exhibit, Somerville, MA.
2007 Group exhibit, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2006 Group exhibit, J & W Gallery, New Hope, PA.
2006 "Colors Notebook Project", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2006 Windows Art Project, juried art exhibit, Somerville, MA.
2006 Group show, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2006 "Under the Influence: SCIENCE" group show, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
2005 Three-person show, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2004 Holiday exhibit, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
2004 Windows Art Project, juried art exhibit, Somerville, MA.
2004 Group exhibit, "PLAY", Nave Gallery, Somervile, MA.
2004 Four-person show, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2004 Group exhibit, The Gallery, Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
2002 "Small Works: Harry Folsom & Pauline Lim", Space 12 Gallery, Boston, MA.
2002 Three-person exhibit, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2001 Three-person exhibit, Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2001 Solo exhibit, Nemasket Gallery, Fairhaven, MA.
2001 Solo exhibit, "Populated World", Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, W. Barnstable, MA.
2001 Group exhibit, "Femmes", Fire Patrol No. 5, Harlem, NYC.
2000 Solo exhibit, "New Works", Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
2000 Solo exhibit, "Impotence Pill and Other New Works", Newton Free Library, Newton, MA.
1999 Group invitational, "21/31 Dianna", Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
1999 Solo exhibit, "The Time I Dreamt in Full Color", Gallery G, Somerville, MA.
1998 Group invitational, "Current", The G Lounge, Boston, MA.
1998 Group invitational, "Diana Fever", The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City.
1997 Group exhibit, "East Meets West", The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City.
1997 Group invitational, "Paintings/Stories", Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA.
1996 Solo exhibit, "Skybabies and Other Paintings," 29 Newbury St., presented by Brian Patrick Adams, Boston, MA.
1996 Group invitational, "Track 5 at Brickbottom", Somerville, MA.
1996 Group exhibit, The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City.
1995 Group exhibit, "Icons and Altarpieces", New Art Center Galleries, Newton, MA.
1995 Group exhibit, The Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA.
1995 Solo exhibit, "The Homesick Paintings," at 29 Newbury Street, presented by Brian Patrick Adams, Boston, MA.
1995 Group exhibit in Potsdam, Germany, sponsored by the Emerging Collector Gallery of New York City.
1995 Art Beat '95 Windows Art Project, presented by the Somerville Arts Council and the City of Somerville.
1995 Solo exhibit at The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City.
1995 Solo exhibit at Ricochet, New York City.
1995 Solo exhibit at Christopher's, Cambridge, MA.
1995 Group exhibit at Kroma Gallery, Salem, MA.
1994 Group exhibit, "Icons and Altarpieces", New Art Center Galleries, Newton, MA.
1994 Solo exhibit, "Recent Works," at 29 Newbury St., presented by Gallery Per Tutti, Boston, MA.
1994 Juried exhibit, "The Studio Show", at the Boston Center for the Arts.
1994 Solo exhibit, "Singing Beasts and Other Magical Mayhem," at SoundBites, Somerville, MA.
1994 Group exhibit at Van Ward Gallery in Ogunquit, ME.
1993 Solo exhibit, "Thirteen New Paintings," at Somerville Community Access Television, Somerville, MA. Supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and National Endowment for the Arts.
1991-4 Group exhibit at The Emerging Collector Gallery in New York City.
1993 Solo exhibit, "Songs for the Guilty," at Gallery Per Tutti, Boston, MA.
1993 "26: An Exhibition of Recent Grant Winners in the Visual Arts," sponsored by the Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA.
1993 Juried exhibit of contemporary art, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA.
1993 "Tales of Love and Lost", group exhibit at The Open Gallery, Cambridge, MA. I was a co-curator of this show.
1993 Group exhibit, "Mirror, Mirror", at the Artists Foundation, Boston, MA.
1993 "Staged", group exhibit at the Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA.
1993 Exhibit at Toucan Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1992 "House on Fire", a group exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA. I created a sound environment as well as paintings for the show.
1992 Solo exhibit, "Dreams, Dramas and Dodos", at the Galerie Mondiale, Concord, MA.
1992 "X-Art", group exhibit sponsored by the Freedom Festival, Mu Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Exhibit at Ancien Musee des Automates, Paris, France.
1991 Exhibit at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.
1991-3 Exhibit at DeHavilland Fine Art, Newbury Street, Boston, MA.
1991-3 Exhibit at The Open Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1991-2 Exhibit at Gallery Per Tutti, Boston, MA.
1991-2 Exhibit at Galerie Mondiale, Concord, MA.
1991-2 Exhibit at Toucan Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1991 Exhibit sponsored by The Gallery at 102 Watts Street, Brookline, MA.
1991 Solo exhibit at Somerville Community Access Television, Somerville, MA.
1990 Group show at the Enrico Donati Gallery, Newburyport, MA.
1989 "The Visual Object of Desire", a multimedia exhibition at the Boston Artists Foundation, City Place, Boston, MA.
1988 Senior project exhibit, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1987 Senior show, Adams House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Honors and Awards:
2006 Featured artist, apt literary magazine, November 19 issue, http://apt.aforementionedproductions.com
2006 Artist of the Month, ARTSomerville
2005 Featured artist, Sadie Mag, www.sadiemag.com.
2005 Featured artist and cover artist, Middlesex Beat.
2001 Artist in Residence, Kalani Oceanside Retreat, Pahoa, Hawaii
2000 Finalist in the Provincetown Art Association National Juried Exhibition.
2000 Cover artist for Boston Music Awards compilation CD.
1995 Grant winner, New Music Composition Artist's Fellowship, Somerville Arts Council.
1995 Cover artist for "The Electric Walleye", a midwestern regional magazine for the arts.
1994 Finalist for New England Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship.
1993 Grant winner, Artist's Fellowship in painting, Somerville Arts Council.
1993 "Who's Who" among Asian Americans.
1991 Prizewinner, Soho International Art Competition, sponsored by Ariel Gallery, New York City.

Private Collections:
Collectors of my work include Dr. Natasha Staller, Professor of Art History, Amherst College; Clarence Carter, painter and former director of the Works Progress Adminstration (WPA) art program; Nicholas Mitropoulos, Massachusetts State Arts Council and Exectuve Director of the Taubman Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Brendan Fraser, Hollywood film actor; Patrick Lyons of the Lyons Group, Boston nightclub entrepreneurs; Dr. Brian Seed, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Gary Ruvkun, Associate Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Prof. Dr. Reginald Birngruber, Munich, Germany

Performances under the pseudonym "Pauline Easy-Off":
1995 Solo multimedia performance at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA featuring new paintings and a slide show set to my electronic music compositions. Supported in part by a music composition grant from the Somerville Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and National Endowment for the Arts.
1995 "Jejune," an evening of music by John Zorn, performed by the Jejune Music Coalition, Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA.
1994- Ongoing local performances approximately twice a month with ensemble, "Pauline Easy-Off", performing electronically amplified experimental and pop/rock music in area clubs.
1989 "An Evening of Music by John Zorn", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1989 Group for New Music concert, Paine Hall, Harvard University. I performed my own compositions.
1988 Two concerts of music by John Cage that were part of the Norton Series retrospective of Cage's work, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Musical recordings:
2006 "The Angel and the Girl Are Met", Schola Cantorum of S. Stephen’s Church, Providence, RI. Director, James Busby.
2003 "Stephen Full of Grace", Schola Cantorum of S. Stephen’s Church, Providence, RI. Director, James Busby.
1994 "Girl", compilation of songs by female recording artists, released by Curve of the Earth Records.
1993 "Beanstalk to Nowhere", a full-length album.
1993 "Pauline Easy-Off", a six-song EP.
1992 "Real-Life Problems", a full-length album.
1992 "Nurses and Parachutes", a music video.
1992 "House on Fire", a sound environment to accompany the exhibit of the same name at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA.