H.H. Lim is a Malaysian artist who has lived and worked between Rome and Penang since 1976. He is the founder of Edicola Notte, an influential artist-run space established in Rome in 1990. Lim’s multidisciplinary practice spans video, installation, painting, and performance, reflecting a fusion of Eastern and Western cultural influences. Conceptually driven, his work explores themes of memory, symbolism, language, and the transient nature of meaning, often employing playful yet paradoxical juxtapositions to engage socio-political concerns.

Lim has exhibited extensively on the international stage. He represented Malaysia at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2019 with Timeframes, a project reflecting his peripatetic life through painting, installation, and video. His work has also been featured in major exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2013), Prague Biennale (2016), Dakar Biennale (2016), Singapore Biennale (2016), KL Biennale (2017), and shows at institutions such as MAXXI in Rome, UCCA Beijing, GNAM Rome, OCAT Shenzhen, and Palais Populaire in Berlin.

Continuing his prolific practice, Lim has presented recent exhibitions across Italy and internationally, including The Gaze of Sleepwalkers (2024), which reflects on societal behaviour and the shifting relationship between observer and observed. Through his work, Lim encourages a critical reexamination of materialism, ethics, and collective responsibility. H.H. Lim has exhibited his work at Janela.