niceaunties (b. 1981)is the pseudonym of Wenhui Lim, a Singapore-based artist who turned from a nineteen-year career in architecture to creating the Auntieverse, an AI-generated speculative world that reimagines older Southeast Asian women — 'aunties' — as central, empowered figures.,,Her work explores ageing, beauty, and the societal expectations placed on women through surreal, humor-filled imagery.,,
She began making AI art at the beginning of 2023.Drawing on her great-grandmother, mother, and eleven aunts, she created Auntieverse, a speculative online world spanning ten chapters released through Fellowship's platform Daily.xyz in 2024.,Individual chapters restage aunties inside settings such as a Tupperware-built city and a beauty spa where they undergo exaggerated treatments, using humor to probe ageing and beauty standards.In Auntlantis (2024), a video series inspired by Plato's Atlantis and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, auntie-mermaids clean a plastic-choked ocean floor.,For Christie's Art+Tech Summit in 2024, she was commissioned to create Along the River in Auntieverse, reimagining Zhang Zeduan's 12th-century scroll painting Along the River during the Qingming Festival as a commentary on water pollution and the overlooked contributions of women.
Her first physical solo exhibition, “Auntiedote”, opened at Expanded.Art gallery in Berlin in 2024, presented in partnership with Fellowship.In April 2024 she gave a TED Talk in Vancouver on her shift from architecture to art.,The same year the City of West Hollywood commissioned her public artwork Aunties on Sunset, displayed on a Sunset Boulevard billboard from June to September.Her work has also been shown at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Digital Art Weekend in London, and the AI Action Summit in Paris.,At Paris Photo in 2025 she premiered Mirror into Auntieverse, an interactive installation of thirteen auntie characters that replace the viewer's own reflection to celebrate Southeast Asian matriarchal culture.,The installation reappeared the following year in “Auntiescapes”, her exhibition at Load Gallery in Barcelona, where new work extended the Auntieverse into a study of the ageing body — its skin, cycles, and menopause.,
