Yip won the Oscar for Best Art Direction, and the BAFTA award for Best Costume Design for the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (dir. Ang Lee, 1999). 

Through his prolific works in art, film, theatre and literature, Tim Yip has honed his thesis New Orientalism, which proposes that-far from being determined-supposed boundaries of geography and time are porous. 

Tim has had exhibitions worldwide including the National Palace Museum Taipei (Taiwan), Maison de la Culture de Bourges (France), the Royal Dutch Theater (NL), the Madrid Cultural Center (Spain), The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (USA), New York International Asian Art Fair (USA), Beijing Today Art Museum (China), MOMA (Taiwan), Esplanade (Singapore), Maison de la Culture D’Amiens  (France), Shanghai Power Station of Art (China) and Southbank Centre London (UK).

Natural Lili is a declination of Lili, conceived as a smaller bronze counterpart that recalls the material legacy of the original statue Desire. Where the monumental Lili stands as a psychological and temporal cipher, Natural Lili occupies a more intimate, organic register — her form suggesting a being suspended between human and plant, as though rooted and sentient at once. Cast in bronze, the work deliberately echoes Desire while transforming its emotional intensity into something quieter and more evolutionary: a figure not weeping, but growing. In this hybrid state, Natural Lili gestures toward biological time rather than suspended time, embodying metamorphosis, regeneration, and the porous boundary between body and environment.

If Lili exists within artificial, dystopian atmospheres shaped by memory and projection, Natural Lili repositions her within elemental processes — soil, growth, decay, continuity — suggesting that identity itself may be less a fixed image and more a living organism in constant transition.

For Introspection, Tim Yip constructed a spiritual spatio-temporal tunnel between antiquity and the present to explore the spiritual homeland. By deconstructing historical artifacts and conducting cross-disciplinary recombination, Tim uses contemporary language within the artistic narrative of “spatio-temporal reconstruction” to showcase ancient wisdom spanning millennia and spiritual archetypes consistent across ancient and modern times.