Lim Xin Yi
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Lim Xin Yi (b. 2003) is an aspiring artist who finds ways to express and participate in the art community, developed her artistic skills at a young age with a background in Diploma in Fine Art from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She is studying for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and had interned and worked at Gallery1819 and LivingWithArt from 2024 to 2025. There she attended art fairs, organised events, and ocasionally taught children’s arts and crafts. In 2024, she volunteered as a student ambassador for the University of the Arts Singapore Open House. She had interned at 3pumpkins for 3 months where she worked as a community worker for underprivileged children and served the community. She also collaborated with peers on the CTPL X NAFA project in 2023, commissioning a 24 x 1-meter mural for the National Library Board. She focuses on creative and community-based initiatives reflecting her commitment to fostering connections within the art world while continuing to develop connections that inspire her artistic practice.
“I often take inspiration from my surrounding and world affairs, I love experimenting with unconventional mediums that can test and push my creative boundaries. My work are usually expressed through imagination and surrealism reflecting my artistic viewpoint of the world by exploring the inner subconsciousness.”
Title: What the Edges Built
Year: 2026
Medium: Bamboos and newfound objects
Statement:
This work builds on Xin Yi’s research into Singapore’s urbanisation as a form of socio-spatial power. Her research examines housing, ecosystem change, utopian ideals, and creative destruction, revealing how state-led urban development reshapes identity, inequality, policy, and architecture over time. Drawing from her lived experience of growing up in a highly planned and regulated environment, the work investigates how urban space shapes personal and collective identity. In contrast, Where the Edges Build Themselves focuses on irregular urban spaces as sites of human intensity, emotion, and improvisation. The work questions for whom urbanisation is built, suggesting that while efficiency and stability are prioritised, unpredictability and lived complexity are often suppressed. By moving between order and irregularity, the work reveals systems of control embedded in urban planning.