Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore) lives and works in New York, USA and Berlin, Germany. Her research-based practice includes photography, the moving image, archival interventions and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, memory and extraction. Her recent solo exhibitions include Fallout, Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo, Norway (2017); Most People Were Silent, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore (2018); One Day We’ll Understand, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); One Day We’ll Understand, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden (2020); One Day We’ll Understand, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (2021); One Day We’ll Understand, Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions such as the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2017); Relics, Jendela Visual Arts Space, Esplanade, Singapore (2018); Unauthorized Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); Most People Were Silent, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK (2019) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China (2021). Sim was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017.
