Hings Lim /

林佑慶 /

ليم يو هيڠ

Hings Lim is an artist working across installation, video, sculpture, image, and simulation. His process-oriented practice probes the formation of apparatuses and addresses the multiplicities between historicity, performativity, materiality, subjectivity of things and their becoming.

Lim received an MFA and Performance Studies Graduate Certificate from the University of Southern California in 2021 as a recipient of the USC International Artist Fellowship, and a BFA from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in 2012, where he was awarded the Petronas P. Ramlee Chair's Award. From 2023 to 2025, he was artist-in-residence at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, supported in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Recent solo exhibitions include Throughput and Inflaming Machines, Island Gallery, New York; and Specter in the Gate, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana. Selected group exhibitions include ÖK(^)B, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Signal Fires, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles; The Tale Their Terror Tells, Lyles & King, New York; Don't Look Now, Human Resources, Los Angeles; Wonderland, EPOCH Gallery, Los Angeles; and In the Fire, Gerald Moore Gallery, London. He previously completed the Southeast Asian Artist Residency at Rimbun Dahan (2018) and is a co-founder of Lattalilat, a community art project in Malaysia.

Lim is based between Los Angeles and Kuala Lumpur.

[Portfolio · PDF, 13MB] [Throughput, Island Gallery · PDF, 10MB]

Educations

2021
Performance Studies Graduate Certificate, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Master of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2012
Bachelor of Applied Arts with Honours (Fine Arts), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia.

Solo Exhibitions

2026
Throughput, island gallery, New York, USA.
2024
Specter in the Gate, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, USA.
2023
Inflaming Machines, island gallery, New York, USA.
2021
Imperceptible: machine, animal, plant, stone, skull, Roski Mateo Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2016
Reciprocity, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Group Exhibitions

2026
PAVILION Hong Kong, curated by Jims Lam, Hong Kong.
2025
Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong): Techformance, Oi!, Hong Kong.
contrifugal, island gallery, New York, USA.
Operation Kata-tropical (Aural) Bloom [ÖK(^)B], www.okab.sg, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2024
Signal Fires, curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
humilis, island gallery, New York, USA.
Serial and Massively Parallel, curated by John Tung, S.E.A. Focus 2024, Singapore.
2023
Ideal Acre, island gallery, New York, USA.
In the Fire, Gerald Moore Gallery, London UK.
2022
The Tale Their Terror Tells, curated by Geena Brown & Lauren Guilford, Lyles & King, New York, USA.
Artist and Researcher, Hoyt Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2021
Embodied Forest, ecoartspace, www.ecoartspace.org, New Mexico, USA.
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA.
Don't Look Now, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Wonderland, EPOCH Gallery, www.epoch.gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2020
In Cahoots, UTA Artist Space, www.utaartistspace.com, Beverly Hills, California, USA.
GLAMFA 2020: Double Play, CSU Long Beach Art Galleries, Long Beach, California, USA.
2019
USC Arts Showcase, Alumni Memorial Park, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2017
Young Contemporary Award, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Art Stage Singapore, Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore.
2016
Malaysian Art, A Special Preview, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Malaysian Art, A New Perspective, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bazaar Art Jakarta 2016, Richard Koh Fine Art, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2014
Portraits of the World, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2013
Portraits of the World: Life Drawing of 60 Queens by 60 Artists, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2012
i-Arts, FACA Gallery, Sarawak, Malaysia.
2011
Pra-CIPTA, FACA Gallery, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Awards & Residencies

2022-2026
Artist-In-Residence, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California, USA.
2021
Artist In Residence, Atche Art Space, Los Angeles, USA.
2019-2021
USC International Artist Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2018
Southeast Asian Artist Residency, Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia.
2012
Petronas – P.Ramlee Chair’s Award, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia.

Performances & Screenings

2021
Come a Little Closer, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, USA. (January 14, 2021)
2018
Feast, Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia. (August 31, 2018)

Collaborative Projects

2015
Communication Through Arts: Let’s Create To Communicate, Lattalilat, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2014
Visual Day: Art Fun Day, Lattalilat, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2013
Rearview Forward, Lattalilat, MIA College Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Hari Visual:Xpressionisme, Lattalilat, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2011
Visual Ethnography in Kampung Awat-awat, Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia.
X-media, Lattalilat, FACA Gallery, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Bibliography

2024
Mosqueda, Sarah. “‘Specter in the Gate’ illuminates a hair-raising part of O.C. history.” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2024, TimesOC section. [link]
Ross, Claudia. “The Best Shows to See During Frieze Los Angeles.” Frieze, February 29, 2024. [link]
2023
Gluzman, Yelena, ed. Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 10. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023.
2021
Watts, Patricia, ed. Embodied Forest. Santa Fe, NM: ecoartspace, 2021.
Stromberg, Matt. “Funny, Generous, and Honest.” Hyperallergic, July 29, 2021. [link]
Lin, Rouwen. “World Bicycle Day: how pedal power has been celebrated through art in Malaysia.” The Star, June 3, 2021. [link]
2017
Haridasan, Vimi. Art Republik. January 10, 2017. [link]
2016
Qianfan, Gu. "Kuala Lumpur’s first Gallery Weekend: some Observations." randian 燃点, December 14, 2016. [link]
Mitton, George. "The Wheels of Life - Hings Lim." Funds Global Asia, September, 2016. [PDF]
Lin, Rouwen. “Riding on an idea.” The Star, August 15, 2016. [PDF]
Bouchara, Claire. Blouin Artinfo. August 12, 2016. [link]
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