Education:
Masters of Fine Arts, Open University, 2007-2008
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting, with High Distinction), RMIT, 2002-2003
Diploma in Fine Arts, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, 1999-2002
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology/Statistics), National University of Singapore, 1995-1998
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition
a minor parallax, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore, 1 Sept - 8 Oct 2023
Secret Windows, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2004
Group Exhibitions
crafty?: a Critical Craft Collective Lab (edition 2), Grid Singapore, 7 - 25 Feb 2024
After one and three chairs: a Critical Craft Collective Lab (edition 1), Grid Singapore, Singapore Art Week, 17 - 28 Jan 2024
The Spectral Faith of Our Minor Flirtations, FOST gallery, Singapore, 11 Nov - 22 Dec 2023
We keep going around in circles and we never know why until we break them all, Supperhouse, Singapore 7 - 22 Oct 2023
Thinking about Abstraction, 39+ Art Space, Singapore, 18 Aug - 01 Oct 2023
On Senses – Tides that Bind, Borneo Lab, Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia, 1 May 2023
SEA Focus 2023, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 06 - 15 Jan 2023
There are Flowers in the Morning Mist, Supperhouse, Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Ephemeral: The Winston Oh Travelogue exhibition, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery and Project Space, 18 Sep - 22 Oct 2022
It Is Beautiful Because of You and Me 你我， Supperhouse, Singapore 17 Sep - 1 Oct 2022
Between the Covers of our Daydreams, Earl Lu Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Jul - Sep 2022
The World is Flat After All, Supperhouse, Singapore Jul - Aug 2022
赏花, Supperhouse, Singapore 2022
The Story of Calico, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Singapore 2022
Sewing Discord, Jendela Gallery Esplanade Singapore 2021
Stories from the Sea for Rediscover Telok Ayer Project, 2020
Planes and Envelopes, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Singapore 2019
Still Like a Hummingbird, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Jogjakarta, Indonesia, 2018
The Great Lubricator, Alliance Francaise Singapore, 2016
International Triennale of Extended Media, Belgrade, Serbia, 2016
Looming Isles, an Opening Festival Community artwork for National Gallery Singapore, 2015
Mullae-Substation Artist Cultural Exchange Exhibition, Mullae Art Space, Seoul, Korea, 2014
Mullae-Substation Artist Cultural Exchange Exhibition, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2013
Etiquette III, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2013
If the World Changed - Singapore Biennale, Peranakan Museum, Singapore, 2013/2014
100% Linen, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2013
Still Building - Contemporary Art from Singapore, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia, 2012
Nine +/- 1, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
Etiquette II, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2011
NINE, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2011
Feeding Ghosts, Kitsch Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2010
Traces II, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2010
The Sustainable Shop, SMU Gallery, Singapore, 2010
NAFA-LASALLE Fine Art Staff Show, LASALLE ICA Gallery and NAFA Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore, 2010
Edgeworthia Gardneri, Praxis Space, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, 2010
Centre to Periphery, The Japan Creative Centre, Singapore, 2010
Etiquette, Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2010
Connected:09, Pöllau, Austria, 2009
Only Breath, Café Kunst Sappho, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009
Home – Inaugural NUS Alumni Art Show, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, NUS, Singapore, 2009
Manifold, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2009
SMU Arts Festival - Always Here But Not Always Present, SMU, Singapore, 2008
SCYA – Launch of website and artists works, Sculpture Square, Singapore, 2008
Flat Earth Society 0.1, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2008
Flat Earth Society 0.2, The Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2008
The BIG Store, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 2007
Hopscotched, The Esplanade – Jendela Gallery, Singapore, 2007
The Vending Machine Project, Dublin, Ireland, 2006
Convergence, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2005
Junction, Blue Space Contemporary Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2004
Made in Singapore, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore, 2004
Philip Morris ASEAN Arts Award Exhibition, MITA Artrium, Singapore, 2003
Arts Jam -The Big Small Works Show, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore, 2003
No Apologies (10th RMIT Bachelor of Arts Exhibition), Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, 2003
Complementary, Earl Lu Gallery II, Singapore, 2002
Eye To the World - Nokia Arts Award Exhibition, MICA Building, Singapore, 2002
Imaginary Observations, Societe Generale Gallery, Alliance Francaise, Singapore, 2001
Commissioned Works
Siding Spring and Plains of Notations, Commissioned by Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore for Children's Festival, 11 May to 23 June 2024
n o o n (at play) reprised as X O X at Stamford Art Centre for Night Festival 2023 - A Critical Craft Collective Project
n o o n (at play) at Punggol Waterway Park - NAC Public Art Trust public project (As you were), May to Oct 2022 - A Critical Craft Collective Project
The Oort Cloud and the Blue Mountain: Tanjong Pagar Edition, Singapore Art Museum, Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
The Oort Cloud and the Blue Mountain, Kinder Biennale, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, 18 Sep 2021 - 24 Apr 2022
The Oort Cloud and the Blue Mountain, Kinder Biennale, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 02 Jun 2021 - 13 Mar 2022
The Oort Cloud and the Blue Mountain, Children Biennale, National Gallery Singapore, 2019
A Botanical and Wildlife Survey, Singapore Biennale 2013: If the world change, Peranakan Museum, 2013 - 2014
Art work for Circle Line station – Caldecott, Land Transport Authority, 2009
Singapore Airlines, Drawings for SIA In-Flight Menus, 2004
Paintings for launch of CHIC – Carolina Herrera’s new fragrance, 2002
SQ (Service Quality) Centre Mural, 2001
Scholarships/Awards/Professional Participation
Critical Craft Collective Presentation at the Tropical Lab+, Singapore, June 2024
Symposium - The Only Lasting Truth is Change, Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, Bergen Norway, 16-19 November 2023
Panel Discussion with Curator Louis Ho at the FIND Design Fair 2023 - on Craft, Design and Art, 23 September 2023
Presentation in the Art Galleries Association section at the FIND Design Fair 2023, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 21-23 September 2023
Critical Craft Collective Presentation and Panel discussion at the Tropical Lab, Singapore, July 2023
Tides that Bind: On Senses - A moving image presentation and discussion, Borneo Lab, Sarawak Malaysia, 2 May 2023
Guest Lecture series and International Visual Arts exhibition, ISI Yogjakarta, 23 Nov to 4 Dec 2021
In Conversation: Sewing Discord, Online artist talk, 21 May 2021
Pearl Academy x IFFTI 2021: Fashioning Resurgence - Our Time is Now, Conference paper presentation 28 Oct 2021
Roundtable discussion for the Materialities of Care and Modes of Making panel, Asia-Art-Activism, 28 Mar 2021
Image and Sound In Spite Of…, an online exhibition featuring LASALLE staff and alumni, 2020
Our Heartlands, online presentation of works for Plural Art Mag, 2020
The Opening Night of Festival of Women: N.O.W. followed by Live Chats with Women of N.O.W., 15 Jul 2020
Conference presenter at Birkbeck University, London - The Uncanny in Language, 2018
Painting of the Year competition judge, Yangon, Myanmar, 2015 and 2016
SG50 HDB Façade art at Ulu Pandan, August 2015
Art talk at Community Art Forum at Brack, 1 Feb 2015
Art talk/workshop at Peranakan Museum for SB2013, 2014
Mullae-Substation Art Exchange Programme, 2013/2014
Substation Associate Artist Program, 2011
Art Incubator Residency with Grey Space Projects, Singapore, 2010
Connected:09 – Art Residency in Pöllau, Austria, 2009
Taipei Drift, International Workshop for Art Academies, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008
Documenta: Openspace, International Workshop for Art Academies, Kassel, Germany, 2007
ASEF Project Grant 2007 , Singapore/Dublin, 2007
How to Cook a Wolf - Poetry Reading at BooksActually, 2006
International Artists’ Workshop in Khe Ga, Vietnam, 2005
Pulp Mash at the Substation – Painting vs. Graffiti performance, 2004
Creative Camp (organized by ASEF) in Paris, France, 2003
Melbourne Transport Shelter UrbanArt Public Program, Melbourneconnectionasia, 2003
Philip Morris ASEAN Arts Award 2003 (Singapore) – Honorable Mention, 2003
Substation Associate Artist Award, 2003
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Art Award, 2002
Nokia Arts Award – Merit Award, 2002
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Special Award, 2001
National Arts Council Georgette Chen Art Scholarship, 2001
LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Art Award, 2000
Writings
Essay for Dr. Winston Oh watercolour solo exhibition catalogue, 2014
Writings for National Art Gallery’s Art archive, 2011
“Its little wonder”- Writing for ARTICLE, An accompaniment newspaper for the Singapore Biennale 08, 2008
Catalogue Article for Artist Parvathi Nayar, ArtSingapore, 2007
Articles for The Substation E-magazine, 2007-2008
Singapore Art History for the Encyclopedia of Singapore, EDM Books, 2005
Times Publishing Children Book, “My Acrylic Painting Class”, 2003
Articles/Interviews
CNA Interview with Hazel Lim, Jun 2022
A Stitch in Time by Durva Simone for Tatler Singapore, Mar 2022
联合早報 Zaobao: 棉里藏针也埋史 白棉布的故事展 by黄向京 16 Jan 2022
联合早報 Zaobao: 让针线在疫下， 缝织无私关怀 by李雅歌 , 28 May 2021
Children are never world-weary - writing about Oort cloud and the blue mountain, August 2019
Using Paper to Create Art, Straits Times by Toh Wen Li, 25 March 2019
Leaders of the Pack, Plural Art Magazine by Usha Chandradas, 10 April 2019
https://singaporebiennale2013-blog.tumblr.com/post/63707115477/artist-interview-with-hazel-lim
Times Higher Education: Unexpected shifts in perspectives (Singapore Biennale) by Dr. Peter Hill, 12 Dec 2013
The Straits Times Life! Section: Cover to Cover, article on exhibition Centre to Periphery, 08 May 2010
Lush Radio 99.5 FM: Interview about exhibition, Manifold, 02 April 2009
The Straits Times Lifestyle Section: Bookends, 10 Feb 2008
NewsRadio 938 FM: The Living Room segment, 01 Feb 2008
TheSundayTimes: Where are the women? Article on poetry reading-How to cook a wolf? 06 April 2007
Berita Harian: Belajar B. Inggeries Sambil Bercerita - Books on My Acrylic Class, 28 May 2005
联合早報，现在 Zb now：林素䝨，把自己变成一个門框, 08 July 2004
Vietnam News: VN, Singaporean artists unite for multimedia show in HCM City, 19 June 2004
联合早報，现在 Zb now: 100%新加坡制造, 01 Mar 2004