Hannah Lim

Hannah Lim (b. 1998) is a London-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and drawing. Her practice is deeply informed by her multicultural upbringing in London and her mixed Singaporean and British heritage. She explores how cultural relationships have historically been reflected through design, art, architecture, and furniture, often reinterpreting decorative traditions and motifs through a contemporary lens.

A recurring reference in her work is 18th-century Chinoiserie — the European reinterpretation of Chinese aesthetics — which she seeks to reclaim and reimagine in a more conscious and critical way. Recently, her research has expanded to Classical Chinese literature, particularly mythological texts such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, inspiring ornamental yet animistic sculptures and paintings that intertwine storytelling with personal reflections on identity.

Lim holds a BA in Sculpture from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. She has presented solo exhibitions at Pangolin London, Wilder Gallery, Huxley-Parlour, Edinburgh Printmakers, and Commonage Projects, among others, and has participated in group exhibitions internationally.

Her recent commissions include a project with Tate Collective, a public sculpture for Greenwich Peninsula, and a major permanent installation at West Middlesex Hospital, now part of the CW+ art collection. Lim has also collaborated with Dolce & Gabbana and Bvlgari. In February 2026, she opened her first museum solo exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath.