Jay Lim | 林俊豪  



Photo Credits: © Dan Higginson

Jay Lim (b. 2000) is a Singaporean artist specialising in photography and book-making. His practice explores and documents the lives of queer men who exist outside of societal norms. Using photography as an alternative mode of communication that reaches beyond spoken language, Lim invites viewers to question dominant assumptions about queer experience, challenging and complicating institutional narratives and discourses.

PHOTO BOOKS/SERIES
2025 Singapo-ren Love, self-published
2024 in another world (假如在另个世界), self-published
2024 Chao Ah Gua (臭阿倌), self-published
2020 Being Vulnerable is the New Sexy 🍑 (BVITNS), self-published
2019 Rising up on Rinjani

WRITING
2025 A Guide to Looking Inscrutably
2025 Inscrutable Photographs: Queering the Normalised Beliefs of Gay Experience, An Analysis of Suni Gupta’s Exiles, thesis (supervised by Dr. Jenny Good).
2020 Contributing Writer, HYPE Magazine SG Issue 50, (final print issue): Crossing Bridges, A Tribute to Wuhan
2020 Contributing Writer, The UrbanWire.

EXHIBITIONS
2025 Singapo-ren Love in the Movements Towards The Self, Movements Towards History group exhibition
2024 Chao Ah Gua and in another world in the official photobook selection at the Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival.
2019 Collaborated with artist Benedict Yu in There is a Boundary that Shall Not Be Crossed for the Mannequins and Puppets group exhibition curated by LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome.
2019 Collaborated with artist Benedict Yu for his exhibition He Serves the Army Twice at Senso Art Gallery in Johor Bahru.

CURATORIAL
2025  Organised student symposium in conversation with Professor Tina Campt
2025 Portrait of (US)EAN at The Photobook Cafe, London UK.
2024 The Rhizome  at Acrylicize, London UK.
2024 Maybe Someday, One Day at Copeland Gallery, London.
2023 (re)semblance at Copeland Gallery, London UK.

AWARDS, HONOURS, FEATURES
2025 Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award Nominee.
2023 Port Magazine, Issue 32: Photography feature in Trouble Abroad article. 
2023 “I Wanna Be That GA. Y." – International Photography Awards (IPA) Deeper Perspective Culture Category, Honorable Mention.
2023 “He Serves the Army Twice" – International Photography Awards (IPA) Non-Professional People: Portrait Category, Official Selection.

EDUCATION
2025 BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, 
London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts, London (UAL), London, UK.
2020 Diploma in Mass Communication with a specialisation in Journalism and Publishing, School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore.


Contact jayyshoots1@gmail.com for more information, full CV available on request.