MANDO
Art Science Museum Singapore x Sneakertopia Asia
Singapore
Exhibition highlighting art in sneaker culture. Exhibiting works from Banksy, Yayoi Kusama, Futura, George Condo, Mr. Sabotage, Tommii Lim and many more.
A very special collaboration between Kobe Bryant x Nike Basketball x Tommii Lim x Be-Street Magazine shot by Panamaera to commemorate the retirement of Kobe and the release of the Nike Kobe XI.
Photo shoot with Kobe Bryant was published in the winter 2016 issue of the french magazine Be-Street including cover and center fold poster.
Hello Color, Hi LA
Tommii Lim’s inaugural color piece showcasing his Optical Sculpture Anamorphic Forced Perspective Style. This piece marks Lim’s return to color after exclusively only using black and white for 15 years. This piece is an homage to Lim’s return to LA after being over seas on his International Mural Tour for the last 3 years.
Made for the opening of the new Piano’s Lounge in Los Angeles.
Beom Beom
Hojakdo Traditional Korean Tiger mural for Beom Beom Korean Restuarant.
Sydney, Australia
2020 USA Basketball Redbull 3X Olympic Training Camp Mural by Tommii Lim
Banana Peace
MurOne x Mars x Tommii Lim
Tel Aviv, Israel
Artists 4 Israel
12 Muralists from around the world came together to promote peace in the Middle East painting on abandoned army barracks right next to the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea / Jerusalem, Israel
PSG Talon has just unveiled its newest Mid-Season Invitational kit for 2022. This time around, the eSports team has enlisted Los Angeles-based Korean American artist, Tommii Lim to add some artistic touches to the jersey.
Tommii Lim’s signature black and white styles can be found in the player’s number and name — Team PSG Talon’s League of Legends top laner Su “Hanabi” Chia-Hsian is pictured above. Clad in pink, white and black, a Nike engineered patch sits near the waist while a Swoosh logo and PSG patch can be found at the chest. A SteelSeries and Twitch logo rounds off the clean kit.
UAE Falcon vs Korean Dessert Tiger
Multi Mural Installation / Yas Island / Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates
Desert Camo
Spray on cotton / Burj Khalid’s / Dubai / United Arab Emirates
Blue Demon
Mural for Viadora CDMX
Sponsored by Topo Design & Hoka One One
Mexico City, Mexico
Casa Cleo
Mural for Viadora CDMX
Mexico City, Mexico
Street Piece
Canguu, Bali, Indonesia
Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Paint Jam
Depicting the colorful night life of Bangkok. Graffiti Jam with local graf artists in Bangkok.
Bangkok, Thailand
G20 Conference touring India by Train
Bangalore
Madurai
Mumbai
Goa
Ride Or Die
Painting of an Asian couple breaking stereotypes.
Sponsored by Arc’teryx, Sherwin Williams, NPR
World Wide Walls, Washington DC
UA ICON Creator Collabs is a series from Under Armour that pairs artists and sneakerheads from coast to coast to create custom sneakers for the UA ICON Platform.
Tommii Lim pairs with host Jacques Slate to create a fully customized Curry 5 sneaker from the Under Armour Icon platform.
Steph Curry Painting made for Tommii Lim’s episode of Under Armour ‘s Creators Collab Series featuring the Under Armour x Tommii Lim ICON collab on the Curry5 basketball sneaker.
Acrylic on wood panel
60” x 60”
2018
Durian Snake Lady
Hin Market / Penang, Malaysia
Saigone
Meme Brewing / Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Google Goose HQ Mural Installations
by Tommii Lim
Located at the new Google HQ in the newly remodeled Howard Hughes hanger in Playa Vista.
Spruce Goose Mural
Acrylic + mixed media
2019
Spruce Goose is Tommii Lim’s depiction of Howard Hughes’s mega airplane, The Spruce Goose. Goose embodies the linear and non linear paths he took on his full circle journey from being inspired as a child, seeing the Spruce Goose on a school field trip to growing into the artist he is today interpreting his story in the beautiful hanger where the larger than life plane was built.
Flightwaves (4 point Forced Perspective Installation)
Acrylic + mixed media
2019
An abstract depiction of the linear and non linear paths taken to reach goals and success inspired by Howard Hughes. Using forced perspective and anamorphic techniques, Tommii Lim merges 4 individual murals to form a 360 degree immersive optical illusionary experience.
AWARDS
2019 CALIBRE DESIGN AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Winner / Work Extra Large CategoryIIDA Southern California Chapter / Calibre Design Awards
2019 CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Winner / Rehabilitation Category California Preservation Foundation / Design Awards
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Winner / Preservation Awards / Los Angeles Business Conservancy
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS COUNCIL AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Chairman’s Award / OfficeArchitectural Awards / Los Angeles Business Council
A+ AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Special Mention / Office Low RiseArchitzer / A+ Awards
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Winner / Corporate OfficeEuropean Center For Architecture, The Chicago Athenaeum
CRE AWARDS 2019 (ZGF Architects / SPMD)’Google Spruce Goose HQ’
Sliver Award / OfficeCommercial Real Estate Awards / Los Angeles Business Awards
Savage Palms Collaboration
Mark & Lona x Tommii Lim Collection
Mark & Lona HQ Murals / Tokyo, Japan
Mark & Lona x Tommii Lim Pop Up
Boon The Shop / Seoul, Korea
Adidas Football Soccer Installation Mural
by Tommii Lim
Acrylic and spraypaint
2019
Artist Tommii Lim paints an immersive soccer mural for the official Adidas Football X Urban Futsal LA space 'The Base' in Los Angeles.
‘SPACE X TIME’ Optical Sculpture by Tommii Lim feat. Null-LA + Balloonski
Inspired by Elon Musk, SpaceX, NASA & 2001: Space Odyssey. Space X Time uses forced perspective and anamorphic illusion techniques to portray a SpaceX astronaut from the future discovering a monolith structure made up of found artifacts from the past. The sculptural mural juxtaposes past present and future with a tower that disappears and reappears into a giant SpaceX astronaut observing the past, pondering the present, imagining the future.
Press:
Collaborators:
Meghan Hui / Null-LA (Tower Engineer)
Balloonski (Mirrored Planets)
Pizzaboyzzz (Production Lead)
Dtox (Sound Engineer)
Production Team:
Bairbrains
Briana Eakin
Steven Estrada
CHINGU
Located in Honolulu Hawaii and painted for Celebrity Chef Chris Oh's newest restaurant Chingu. Tommii Lim's piece is a play off of the word Chingu which means friend in Korean. Lim also created the Diamond Head mountain inspired logo for Chingu.
Honolulu, Hawaii
Painting of The Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan and his beloved bluenose Junior at WUF headquarters in DTLA by Tommii Lim.
Acrylic on Wood
10’ x10’
2022
Carmen
Tulum inspired mural at El Surco Terrazza Night Club
Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Toyota x Tommii Lim
Day One mural campaign highlighting Asian Americans who live and create outside the box. Tommii Lim paints a quick 6 hour self portrait of depicting himself painting the sun while using the brand new Toyota Tundra.
Sawhorse Agency / Hollywood, CA.
CORE / Community Organized Relief Effort
Multi mural installation for CORE HQ. A humanitarian organization that brings immediate relief and recovery to underserved communities across the globe.
Chinatown / Los Angeles
Los Angeles Murals by Tommii Lim
Tommii Lim official DTLA Fashion District Mural and Mural Party produced by AYAN in association with Now Art in the Fashion District of DTLA.
SHE mural / California Mart DTLA
LA River Mural / Spoke Bicycle Cafe Frogtown
Feel Mural x Mikolaj / 72 & Sunny Ad Agency
LA Is Trying To Kill Me Mural / Tommii Lim Pop Up in Skid Row
Astronaut Mural / Los Angeles
Joshua Tree Mural / Joshua Tree
New Waves / Santa Monica
4 part building mural installation for Hagy Belzberg's Belzberg Architects headquarters in Santa Monica, CA.
Using forced perspective, the pieces are designed in which standing directly center in front of the paintings, the viewer sees the image as a flat image. Once the viewer stands or walks away from the center point, Tommii Lim Creates the illusion of warped stretching which he uses to symbolize the illusion of projected images in today's social media driven digital world.
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Umma SF
San Francisco / CA
Critically acclaimed Korean Restuarant themed after mom’s home cooking. Tommii Lim paints an homage to his mother in this Bay Area installation.
Hanjip LA
Los Angeles / CA
Tommii Lim installation at Korean bbq restaurant Hanjip in Culver City by celebrity chef Chris Oh (Bravo's Recipe For Deception), Restauranteurs Stephane Bombet & Francios Renuad.
The installation pays homage to the ways of traditional Korean culture found infused with that of western American ways found in LA. The geometric patterns and simple shapes are reminiscent of the Korean written language, often used in Lim's work.
In celebration of The Year Of The Rabbit, Stella Artois presents a special LIMited edition Tommii Lim box set.
Tommii Lim Art Helmet collaboration with Japanese Energy Drink company Kiiva for Japanese Super GT race car driver Yuhi Sekiguchi for Tom's Racing Japan driving for Lexus and Bridgestone Japan.
Carver Skateboards x Tommii Lim
The Tommii Lim Proteus Board pays homage to the palm trees of Los Angeles where Lim grew up.
