Bio

Lina works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, installation and performance. Using different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, political, geopolitical, economic, cultural and environmental changes in Cambodia in relation to the globe and in the notion of what power and economic play roles in our everyday living and contemporary present. His works usually involve researching to discover, unpack and document the history of the present and the imagination of the future by learning from the past.

Lina is an active member of the artist collective, Stiev Selapak since 2007-2024 which founded and co-runs Sa Sa Art Projects since 2010-2024, a long-term initiative committed to the development of contemporary visual arts landscape in Cambodia. Together with his collective, they teach, initiate, and innovate art programs facilitating a growing and critically conscious community. For the last 3 years, he teach contemporary photography at Sa Sa Art Projects.

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).