b. 1981. Lives and works in
Wurundjeri Country, Naarm/Melbourne
Eugenia Lim is an artist, researcher and filmmaker of Chinese–Singaporean ancestry whose work with moving image, performance, sculpture, installation and social practice is informed by histories—and counter-narratives—of migration, capital, labour, materiality, ecology and the politics of space. Working between documentary, speculative, and poetic modes, Lim’s image-making and installations explore how the diasporic condition can engender ways of seeing in resistance to the colonial gaze. Stemming from an emplaced, relational and collaborative approach—from gig economy workers to sewage treatment plants—Lim’s art-making platforms places and communities that are otherwise unseen or undervalued in dominant culture.
Based on unceded lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has exhibited, screened or performed at the Tate Modern (GBR), LOOP Barcelona (ESP), FIVA (AR), Recontemporary (IT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (AUS), ACCA (AUS), FACT Liverpool (GBR), EXiS (Seoul) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK). She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre (USA), Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio (CN), Gertrude Contemporary, and she co-founded CHANNELS Festival. Collaboration, community and artist-led pedagogies fuel Lim’s work as board member at West Space, Composite Moving Image Agency, artist advisory committee member for NETS Victoria, founding membership of temporal art collective Tape Projects and as an educator at RMIT University. Lim is a 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, and the winner of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Spring’s 2022 Deep Forest Art Land Award. In 2024, Lim is an AIDC Leading Light, a Frame Documentary Lab participant, and one of 10 international directors selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talents Short Form Station 2024.
Eugenia Lim studio pays respect to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded sovereign land we live and work. From this place, we contribute to the collective practice of global art and culture. Our work is indebted to the cultural practices and embodied knowledges that have nurtured and shaped the lands, skies and waterways of our home since the beginning of all things. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.