Bio

Lina works across documentary and conceptual practices using photography, video, installation, and performance. Through diverse strategies, he draws attention to social, political, geopolitical, economic, cultural, and environmental changes in Cambodia and their connections to the wider world. His work explores how power, economics, and history shape everyday life and contemporary society.

His practice is grounded in research, seeking to uncover, unpack, and document the histories embedded in the present while imagining possible futures through an understanding of the past.

Lina co-founded and co-ran Sa Sa Art Projects from 2010 to 2024, a long-term initiative dedicated to developing Cambodia’s contemporary visual arts landscape. He taught contemporary photography at Sa Sa Art Projects. In 2024, he co-founded the Cambodian Centre for Documentary Photography (CCDP).

Lim’s recent exhibitions include The Water element: Tonle Sap lake is floating, Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo, 2024; Archipelogo: Paradise Revisit, The 9th Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival at Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, China 2024; 鷹生犬 A Hatched Dream, Absolute Art Space, Taiwan 2024; À Marée Basse, BAQ gallery, Paris; Maja Tuk Maja Day (Master of Territory), Documenta 15 , Kassel, Germany, Emotional Asia: Miyatsu Daisuke Collections x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, River Pulses, Border Flows, Guangdong Times Museum, China, Phnom Penh 243(2010-), Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan 2021, Phantoms and Aliens: The Invisible Other, Richard Koh Fina Art, Malaysia (2020), Cambodian Migrant worker in Asia (A Conversation), Singapore Biennale (2019), Wrapped Future II, NCA Nichodo Contemporary Gallery Tokyo (2019), Foreshadows, Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan (2019), National Road Number 5, Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand 2018; Sydney Biennale (2108), This Life of Thing, Esplanade, Singapore (2018), Sunshower, Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo (2017), Singapore Art Stage (2016), Darwin Festival, Australia (2014), Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology, CCA, Singapore (2014), Urban Street Night Club, Art Stage Singapore, SE Asia Platform (2014), Wrapped Future (Triangle Park), Brooklyn (2013), and SA SA BASSAC (2012), Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology, ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart (2013), and Riverscapes INFLUX, various spaces: Hanoi, Saigon, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Manila (2012).