Mike Lim

1969 Born 19 December, Adelaide, Australia.

1970 Moves to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with parents.

1987 Returns to Adelaide.

1993 Graduates with Honours in English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide. Begins Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Adelaide.

1996-2000 Completes courses in video and film production, photography, drawing, at North Adelaide School of Art, Media Resource Centre, and Adelaide Central School of Art.

1997 Student exhibition, Centre for Creative Photography.

1997-1998 Writer, Producer, Presenter and Panel Operator for Radio 5UV.

1997-2001 Gallery Director, Editor, and Studio Assistant, Centre for Creative Photography.

1997-present Instructor at Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide.

1998-2001 Freelance text editor and photographer.

1999 This is Not a Brush Painting, joint exhibition with Tracey Rohrsheim, Centre for Creative Photography (Curated by Gavin Blake).

1999 … any questions? (Curated by Niki Vouis), group exhibition, Contemporary Arts Centre, South Australia.

1999-2000 Tutor in Art History and Theory courses, University of South Australia.

2000-present International Student Adviser, University of South Australia.

2000 Conversationes with 9 by 5. Group exhibition, Queen Street Café. South Australian Living Artists' Week.

2000-present Collaborates on short films as narrator, gaffer, script editor. Co-nominated for Media Resource Centre award for production design on The Empty Room (dir. Jennifer Jones).

2001 Certificate in Creative Photography, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide.

2001 Date of Arrival. Members' Exhibition, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre.

2002 Collaborator and interviewer for Cardinal Points, a documentary project sponsored by Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre.

 

SELECTED REVIEWS OF EXHIBITIONS

1999 Wendy Walker. "Yeah Baby, it's '70s Art." The Advertiser. Friday 17 December 1999: 61.

1999 Pamela Zeplin. "To be Warned, Certainly." Broadsheet 28.3 (spring 1999): 22.

 

SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITING

1995 "Written Communities: Ghana and the Fiction of Kojo Laing." New Literatures Review 28/29 (1994-95): 46-54.

1997 "'History never walks here, it runs in every direction': Ayi Kwei Armah, Kojo Laing and History." Post-Colonialism: Culture and Identity in Africa. Ed. Pal Ahluwalia and Paul Nursey-Bray. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1997. 69-78.

1998 "Consumable Art: Rewriting the Diaspora." CRNLE Reviews Journal 1/2 (1995): 76-85