Sim Chi Yin
Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice involves photography, moving image, archival interventions, book-making and performance, and focuses on history,memory, conflict and extraction.
Over the past decade, she has been working on a multi-chapter project around her family history and the decolonization war in Malaya, “One Day We’ll Understand”, most recently shown at the Istanbul Biennale 2022 . In 2023, she did a photographic and VR installation of Shifting Sands, her on-going project on the global depletion of sand at the Gropius Bau Berlin. That work will also be shown at the Barbican London in Fall 2023.
Recent solo exhibitions include One Day We’ll Understand, Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021), One Day We’ll Understand, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), One Day We’ll Understand, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019) and Most People Were Silent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (2018), Fallout, Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017). Her work has also been shown at Harvard Art Museums (2021), the Thailand Biennale (2021), the Guangzhou Image Triennial ( 2021), the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2017), the Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2016).
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’s currently based in New York where she was an artist fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (2022-3) and is completing a PhD at King’s College London. Sim is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin and Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong.
