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.


 

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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