Original linocut by Sing Lim in 1933 VANTECH
| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
He worked as a printer in Vancouver, owning his own shop for at least twenty years, and while the press was running would make artistic monoprints. He was shown at work in the movie "In Search of Innocence" that was made by an Eastern Canadian film-maker in Vancouver.
According to his autobiography, Sing Lim lived and worked in Vancouver all of his life, except for two years from 1945 to 1947 when he worked for the National Film Board of Canada in Ottawa. His friends and acquaintances there included Henri Masson, Jack Long, Norman McLaren, and P.K. Page (q.v.).
In 1979 he published an autobiographical book titled West Coast Chinese Boy, self-illustrated with entertaining colour monoprints and numerous line drawings of his early childhood and family life in Vancouver's Chinatown. He also provides biographical sketches of his mother and father, and a summary of his life up until publishing the book. The colour prints were shown at the Art Emporium in 1979 in a sold-out exhibition.
Sing Lim is listed as an illustrator in McMann. He died in Vancouver in 1993.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | LOCATION |
| 1952 | Solo exhibition (monotypes) | Agnes Lefort Gallery, Montreal |
| 1959 | Solo exhibition (monotypes) | Laing Gallery, Toronto ON |
| 1963 | Solo exhibition (monotypes, brush drawings) | Danish Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| 1979 | Solo exhibition (monotypes) | Art Emporium, Vancouver |
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 | VAG B.C. Artists 13th Annual | Young Girl (Lithograph) |
LINO-BLOCKS - A Handbook For Student Printers (1934) (refer to VT34)
Includes examples of Sing Lim's linocuts
VANTECH - EASTER 1939
Printed by the students of the Vancouver Technical School
84 pages, stapled, illust. colour/b&w.
Includes a number of original student linocut prints by
Robert Banks and Sing Lim.
BRITISH COLUMBIA - A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY (refer to BCCA58)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA
(refer to BIAC03)
1 reference to Sing Lim: Canadian Childhoods: A Tundra Anthology in Words and Art.
88 ARTISTS FROM 88 YEARS (refer to ECU17)
B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)
GREATER VANCOUVER ART GALLERIES 1954-2020 (refer to GVAG20)
Includes two references to Sing Lim.
"What's About Our Town"
Vancouver Sun, November 1 1963
"Chinese Artist Recalls His Boyhood in Vancouver"
Vancouver Province, December 18 1979
"Canada's First Chinese Print Shop Still Operating on East Georgia" by John Mackie
Vancouver Sun, November 29 2012
"Vancouver’s Chinatown Through the Eyes of Artist and Printer Sing Lim" by Janet Nicol
https://montecristomagazine.com/community/chinatown-eyes-artist-printer-sing-lim
Posted August 2 2021
"Sing Lim, Vancouver Artist and Printer" by Janet Nicol
Devil's Artisan Issue 91, Fall/Winter 2022, ISBN 0225-7874
http://devilsartisan.ca
Well researched article with 20 footnotes