Tristan Lim is a visual artist whose practice surfaces as chimeric forms and expressions, often as incisive examinations into the syncretic and chaotic nature of our visual culture. Working mainly with digital mediums, his artwork brings to fore questions of material and existential significance.
Having completed his Bachelor in Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from LASALLE College of Fine Arts in partnership with Goldsmiths, College of London, his work has been featured in group exhibitions at Ota Fine Arts, The Arts House, SAM at 8Q and The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS). He has also participated in the Facebook Artist-in-residence (AIR) programme and was a recipient of the Winston Oh Travelogue Award (Research).He has been featured as a panelist in Digital Placemaking with Spark AR in Facebook as part of Singapore Art Week, and has presented work for Singapore Night Festival and Singapore Light to Night festival, and for the MADATAC X New Media Festival in Spain.
He currently teaches Visual Effects & 3D media in the Puttnam School of Film & Animation and School of Fine Arts in Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
︎trisarts@gmail.com
CV
Group Exhibitions
2021 Creative Unions Singapore Art Week 2020, Funan, Singapore, 22nd Jan - 21st Feb
Body Experiment: Reflection of Technology Comma Art Space, Singapore, 16th Oct - 30th Oct
Material Sense Columns Gallery, Singapore, 29th Nov - 10th Dec
2020 ArtSkins on Monuments: City States of Mind Light to Night Festival 2020, National Gallery, Singapore
Resigning Mass ISLANDS@Peninsula, Peninsula Shopping Centre, Singapore
Days Counting Season 1 OH! Open House, Singapore
2019 Poor Imagination, Sullivan&Strumpf, Singapore
MADATAC X –Post Digital Star- Media Festival Cineteca Madrid,Madrid, Spain
A Wake-Up Call from Posthuman HATCH ART PROJECT, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore
Adaptations Supernormal Space, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Coming Between, Becoming PLOT Space, Singapore
2018 The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2018: What the Stars are telling us
Praxis Space and Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Spaces Ota Fine Arts, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
A Dive, Splendid! Lasalle School of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, Singapore
Open Call #2: Technology in Art Supernormal Space, Singapore
Work-in-Progress: Mélange Praxis Space and Project Space,
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
2017 LINES The Private Museum Singapore, Singapore
Tomorrow is An Island by Jason Wee, NTU CCA Residencies, Singapore
2016 As Above and So Below Kult Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2013 VERVE Arts Festival Visual Arts showcase with Bradley Foisset and Ruben Pang,
The Arts House, Singapore
NOISE The Apprenticeship Programme exhibition Mentorship under SpeakCryptic,
SAM at 8Q, Singapore
Projects
2018 Facebook Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program Facebook Singapore, Marina One, Singapore
2017 I Light Festival Marina Bay: Relocating Locality Participating artist with Lasalle Fine Arts Team,
Marina Bay Waterfront, Singapore
Articles
2021 Gwee, Sheryl, “Hallucinatory Dystopias in Comma Space’s Latest Show: Body Experiment : Reflection of Technology” Plural Art Mag, October 26
Lee, Seungah, “Curatorial Notes for ‘Body Experiment: Reflection of Technology’” Art & Market, October 21
2018 Lim, Racy, “Tristan-Lim technology in art”, Sand Magazine, April 12
Awards
2018 The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2018, Research Award recipient
CV
Education
2013 Diploma with Merit in Visual Communication and Media Design,
Singapore Polytechnic Design School
2018
Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts
(Hons) (First Class),
Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore
Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore
2013 Diploma with Merit in Visual Communication and Media Design,
Singapore Polytechnic Design School
Group Exhibitions
2022 Material Sense II Columns Gallery, Singapore, 14th Dec 2021 - 06th Jan 2022
Illuminated Curiosities Nguyen Art Foundation, EMASI Nam Long, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, May-Dec 2022
Illuminated Curiosities Nguyen Art Foundation, EMASI Nam Long, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, May-Dec 2022
2021 Creative Unions Singapore Art Week 2020, Funan, Singapore, 22nd Jan - 21st Feb
Body Experiment: Reflection of Technology Comma Art Space, Singapore, 16th Oct - 30th Oct
Material Sense Columns Gallery, Singapore, 29th Nov - 10th Dec
2020 ArtSkins on Monuments: City States of Mind Light to Night Festival 2020, National Gallery, Singapore
Resigning Mass ISLANDS@Peninsula, Peninsula Shopping Centre, Singapore
Days Counting Season 1 OH! Open House, Singapore
2019 Poor Imagination, Sullivan&Strumpf, Singapore
MADATAC X –Post Digital Star- Media Festival Cineteca Madrid,Madrid, Spain
A Wake-Up Call from Posthuman HATCH ART PROJECT, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore
Adaptations Supernormal Space, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Coming Between, Becoming PLOT Space, Singapore
2018 The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2018: What the Stars are telling us
Praxis Space and Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Spaces Ota Fine Arts, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
A Dive, Splendid! Lasalle School of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, Singapore
Open Call #2: Technology in Art Supernormal Space, Singapore
Work-in-Progress: Mélange Praxis Space and Project Space,
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
2017 LINES The Private Museum Singapore, Singapore
Tomorrow is An Island by Jason Wee, NTU CCA Residencies, Singapore
2016 As Above and So Below Kult Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2013 VERVE Arts Festival Visual Arts showcase with Bradley Foisset and Ruben Pang,
The Arts House, Singapore
NOISE The Apprenticeship Programme exhibition Mentorship under SpeakCryptic,
SAM at 8Q, Singapore
Projects
2018 Facebook Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program Facebook Singapore, Marina One, Singapore
2017 I Light Festival Marina Bay: Relocating Locality Participating artist with Lasalle Fine Arts Team,
Marina Bay Waterfront, Singapore
Articles
2021 Gwee, Sheryl, “Hallucinatory Dystopias in Comma Space’s Latest Show: Body Experiment : Reflection of Technology” Plural Art Mag, October 26
Lee, Seungah, “Curatorial Notes for ‘Body Experiment: Reflection of Technology’” Art & Market, October 21
2018 Lim, Racy, “Tristan-Lim technology in art”, Sand Magazine, April 12
Awards
2018 The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2018, Research Award recipient