Lesa Chittenden Lim

Lesa Chittenden Lim (L.C.) is a painter and printmaker known for her luminescent, meditative, and mysterious landscapes that celebrate the beauty of Pennsylvania and northern Michigan.  Lim uses her creative spirit to compose images that reflect the profound beauty of nature and our earth. Her paintings are inspired by an emotional response to nature. She frequently experiments with various mediums, watercolor, pastel, etchings, to achieve what her artistic goals.

After a successful career, managing a $500 million dollar division of a Fortune 100 company and being the President of the Lenox fine china company, she left corporate America to pursue her original vision.  Lim received her degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA).

A recipient of many distinguished awards, her work has been collected by PAFA, the University of Michigan Museum, Woodmere Museum, Dow Chemical and Pennsylvania Power & Light, as well as numerous private collections. She regularly exhibits her work in Pennsylvania and throughout Michigan.

Lim teaches printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and painting at Woodmere Museum and throughout Michigan.

Awards and Publications

2018           First Place Glenn Arbor Art Center Juried Exhibition

2015           Top Merit Award Works on Paper, Perkins Art Center, Moorestown, NJ

2013           Selected for Art of the Sleeping Bear Dunes Dennos Museum exhibition and Fine Arts book.

2013           First place Works on Paper, Perkins Art Center - Moorestown, NJ

2013           Chosen for Woodmere Museum permanent collection - Philadelphia, PA

2012           Winner of Artist in Residency - Sleeping Bear National Park / Glen Arbor Art Association

2009           Chosen for prestigious collection at the Ross School, University of Michigan

2008/2007  Winner of Carolyn Fielder Alber Memorial Award,  Works on Paper, Main Line Art Center

May 2005    Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

                             - Thouron Prize
- Catherine Grant Memorial Prize
- Plastic Club Award
- Artists’ House Award
- Hortense Cauley Memorial Prize
- Henry C. Pratt Memorial Prize
- Rohm and Haas Purchase Prize

Solo Exhibitions

2018                     Pennswood Art Gallery, Newtown, PA

2017-2006           F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012                    Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI

2013/11/08/06     River Gallery, Chelsea, MI

Group  Exhibitions

2013                     12X12, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Alumni Gallery

2013                     Art of the Sleeping Beer National Park, Dennos Museum, MI

2013/12/10/09      Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ

2012                      Multiples, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

2011/10/09/09/06  U.S. Artists, Phildelphia, PA

Collections

1. -Woodmere Museum
   

2. -University of Michigan Ross School
   

3. -Dow Chemical
   

4. -Pennsylvania Power and Light
   

5. -Pennsylvania Surplus Lines Association
   

6. -Numerous Private Collections
   

7. -Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
   

Art Education

2000-2005             Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
Certificate

1976 – 1981          Pewabic Pottery, Detroit,  MI