Yin Sim

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About Yin Sim

Sim Chi Yin (b.1978, Singapore) is an artist whose research-based practice involves photography, moving image, archival interventions, book-making and performance, and focuses on history, memory, conflict and extraction. Her work uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. Her work has been exhibited at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); the Barbican, London (2023); Harvard Art Museums, Boston, USA (2021); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2021); Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017), Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2016); Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021); Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019). She has also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (2022, 2017), the Guangzhou Image Triennial ( 2021) and film festivals such as VideoEx (2023). Sim was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017, nominated for the Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice in 2020. Her work is in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, The J. Paul Getty Museum, M+ Hong Kong, Singapore Art Museum, and the National Museum Singapore. She was an artist fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2022-3) and is completing a PhD at King’s College London. Chi Yin is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin and Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. She has taught at the University of the Arts London and is on the editorial board of the Trans Asia Photography journal.