Hazel Lim is an artist whose practice explores how ways of looking are shaped through systems of knowledge, material processes, and sustained acts of attention. Working across text, drawing, paper, installation and collaborative projects, she examines how artistic practice can generate alternative ways of knowing, bringing together the poetic and the analytical, the tactile and the conceptual.
Drawing on sources as diverse as colour theory, geometry, scientific classification, craft traditions and language, Lim develops artworks that invite slower forms of perception and interpretation. Rather than treating systems as fixed structures, her work reimagines them as spaces for speculation, imagination and enquiry. It unfolds through making, writing and collaborations across disciplines, exploring how material processes and shared forms of inquiry can generate new ways of thinking, looking and making meaning.
Recent projects have explored the periodic table, pigments, diagrams and mathematical structures as poetic frameworks through which to reconsider relationships between science, craft, memory and perception. Underpinning her practice is an enduring interest in how artistic encounters might cultivate attentiveness, curiosity and more expansive ways of seeing the world.
Lim leads the BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme at the McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE | University of the Arts, Singapore. She has exhibited and collaborated internationally, including commissions for the Singapore Biennale (2013/2014) and the Children's Biennale at National Gallery Singapore (2019), which subsequently travelled to the Groninger Museum (Netherlands), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), and Singapore Art Museum.
Lim is also the co-founder of Critical Craft Collective, a platform dedicated to exploring contemporary craft through curatorial, research and collaborative initiatives.
