World In My Eyes: Justin Lim
601 West 26th Street, 3rd floor NYC Booth B27 May 13 - 17, 2026
KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is excited to announce its participation at NADA New York with a solo exhibition of Malaysian artist Justin Lim. The exhibition, titled “World In My Eyes", will be on view from May 13 to May 17 at the 3 Floor of the Starrett- Lehigh Building located at 601 West 6th Street, New York, NY 10001 Booth # B27.
Justin Lim’s paintings transform domestic spaces into intimate psychological landscapes. Empty chairs, cushions, patterned objects, and soft pools of light form rooms that feel inhabited even in the absence of figures. His interiors, rendered with a lush yet restrained touch, bridge Southeast Asian material culture with the lineage of European still-life painting.
Lim’s work reflects on solitude and introspection, treating memory and presence as intimately intertwined, and creating spaces where personal histories quietly unfold. World In My Eyes invites viewers to inhabit Lim’s reflective domestic interiors and to consider how memory and imagination intersect to create spaces of emotional and cultural resonance.
Justin Lim (b.1983, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) completed his postgraduate studies in 2006 with the Master of Art (Fine Art) programme by The Open University UK conducted at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore after obtaining a BA(Hons) Fine Art majoring in painting. He has exhibited widely in Southeast Asia in various solo & group exhibitions and was the recipient of the 2008 Malaysia-Australia Visual Artist Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. He has since held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2011 – Asian Artist Fellowship/ Freeman Fellowship), Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (2013 – Khazanah Nasional Artist Residency),The Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia (2016 – International Artist in residence), Kates-Ferri Projects, New York City 2025)
Selected group exhibitions include the Asian Art Biennale: Viewpoints & Viewing points, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2009), Modern Love, Earl Lu Gallery / Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore (2015), Asia Young 36 / Asia Contemporary, a survey of contemporary Asian art practices, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, South Korea (2016) and Contemporary Chaos, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2018), Art Basel Hong Kong (2023/2024/2025), Untitled Art, Miami, FL (2023/2024), The Armory Show, NY (2024).
Available Art: Justin Lim
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