Portraits, and what they carry.
Selected works of Ahn Na Lim, a Korean Canadian artist and illustrator working in ink.
Portraits made to carry a story — a cover, a book, a feeling that stays.
Available for commissions and licensing.
Selected works of Ahn Na Lim, a Korean Canadian artist and illustrator working in ink.
Portraits made to carry a story — a cover, a book, a feeling that stays.
Available for commissions and licensing.
Ahn Na Lim is a Korean Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her work explores memory, identity, and the quiet emotions that live between presence and absence — a sensitivity shaped by a life between two cultures, Korea and Canada.
She works primarily in ink, drawn to its unpredictability: each mark carries traces of time, gesture, and imperfection. Digital processes extend these moments into covers, books, and licensed art — a dialogue between the handmade and the constructed.
The women in her work are not portraits of individuals but reflections of lived experience — vulnerability, resilience, longing. Her practice is an act of recording: preserving the fleeting emotions and silent spaces that shape how we understand ourselves.
Exhibitions — Not My 9 to 5, Gallery 1313, Toronto (2015) · Waiting for a Legend, Art People Gallery, Seoul (2012) · The First and Only, Art Square Gallery, Toronto (2012) · Merging and Emerging, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery (2011) · Phase of Asian Education, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto (2009) · Art in Fall, 401 Richmond Gallery, Toronto (2008)
Education — Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD University), BDes in Illustration, 2009