CV – sim chi yin.

Sim Chi Yin

b.1978, Singapore

Lives and works in New York

Education

Since 2018 PhD researcher, practice-based PhD, War Studies, King’s College London

2001 MSc in History of International Relations (distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

2000 BA in History (first class honours), London School of Economics and Political Science

Solo exhibitions

2024 2022	The Mountain That Hid, Datsuijo, Tokyo, Japan One Day We’ll Understand, Art Basel Hong Kong
2021	One Day We’ll Understand, Zilberman Gallery Berlin, Germany
2021	One Day We’ll Understand, Interventions, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
2021	Most People Were Silent, Le Space Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2020	Shifting Sands & Most People Were Silent, Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2020	One Day We’ll Understand, Landskrona Konsthall, Sweden
2019	One Day We’ll Understand, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2018	Most People Were Silent, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
2018	Fallout, Cortona On The Move Photo Festival, Italy
2017	Fallout, Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo, Norway

Selected group exhibitions

2024 2023 2023	Requiem, in Disobedience Archive, 60^th Venice Biennale The Mountain That Hid, The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten in Double Exposure, Camera Austria, Graz Shifting Sands, in Re/Sisters, Barbican, London
2023	Shifting Sands, in Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau Berlin
2023 2023	Shifting Sands, in SAND, Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg Shifting Sands, in At The Edge of the Land, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah
2023	Shifting Sands, in Stories of Stone, L’ Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome
2023	The Mountain That Hid, The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten, in Transit, Zilberman Gallery Berlin
2023	The Mountain That Hid, The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten, in Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
2023	Most People Were Silent, in “War is over! Peace has not begun yet”, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso
2022	One Day We’ll Understand, Istanbul Biennale
2022	To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, ASEAN Culture House, Busan, South Korea
2021	Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, Jorge B. Vargas Museum, the Philippines
2021	Devour the Land, Harvard Art Museums, United States
2021	Shifting Sands, Thailand Biennale, Korat
2021	One Day We’ll Understand, Guangzhou Triennial, China
2021	Rediscovery, MAB Modern Studio, Shanghai
2021	The Lie Of The Land, FOST Gallery, Singapore
2021	What Happened Here?, Appetite, Singapore
2020	Correspondences – 70 years: Magnum and Picto 1950 – 2020, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
2019	Most People Were Silent, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery
2018	One Day We’ll Understand, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2018	One Day We’ll Understand, Jendela gallery, Esplanade, Singapore
2017	The Rat Tribe, Istanbul Biennale
2017	The Rat Tribe, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
2016	Dying To Breathe, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina

2016	Dying To Breathe, Objectifs, Singapore
2016	The Rat Tribe, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2015	Burmese Spring, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
2012	The Rat Tribe, PhotoVille, New York
2012	Burmese Spring, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
2008	The Workers From Samsui, The Necessary Stage Fringe Festival, Singapore

Published books

2021 She Never Rode That Trishaw Again

2021 One Day We’ll Understand, exhibition catalogue

Selected performance

2024 One Day We’ll Understand, Esplanade Singapore, world premiere

Selected performance lectures

2022	One Day We’ll Understand, Asia Art Archive in America, New York
2019	One Day We’ll Understand, Singapore International Festival of the Arts
2019	One Day We’ll Understand, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
2018	One Day We’ll Understand, The New School, New York

Selected awards

2024 Sovereign Art Prize, shortlist, Hong Kong

2020	Discovery Award, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2020	Finalist, Tim Hetherington Visionary award
2019	Aesthetica Art Prize, shortlist
2018	Chris Hondros Award
2017	Asia 21 Young Leader
2016	Prix Pictet, nominated
2015	CINE Golden Eagle Awards, short documentary
2015	Prix Pictet, nominated
2014	Her World “Young Woman Achiever of the Year”
2014	British Journal of Photography, “Ones to Watch”
2013	W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography, finalist
2013	ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Awards, Discernment Award and People’s Choice award
2013	Photo District News, PDN 30
2011	Santa Fe Prize, nominated

Selected collections Harvard Art Museums The J. Paul Getty Museum M+ Museum

Singapore Art Museum National Museum Singapore Open Society Foundations Private collections

Commissions

2022	Autograph London and Bagri Foundation, Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography
2022	Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) video commission for St_age
2018	Land Transport Authority Singapore, Art in Transit public art commission
2017	Nobel Peace Prize exhibition commission, Oslo

Selected residencies, fellowships, scholarships, lectureships 2022-3 Whitney Independent Study programme (studio track) 2021 Zilberman Artist-in-Residence programme

2020	Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore residency
2018	Associate lecturer, University of the Arts London, London College Of Communication, teaching on MA
	Photography and the “Contemporary Documentary” unit on the BA programme
2018	Practice-based doctoral research scholarship, King’s College London
2017	Docking Station residency, Amsterdam
2010	Magnum Foundation Human Rights and Photography fellowship, New York University

Selected talks

2023	Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2023	Time Travelers: When Artists Remix the Past to Reframe the Present, Art Basel Hong Kong, Conversations
2022	Memory and Materiality in the photo book, International Center for Photography, New York
2019	Shifting Sands, Barbican Centre / Magnum Photos, London
2019	Ethics and Contemporary Image-making, Tate Britain, study day lead, London
2018	Fallout, Magnum Foundation, New York
2018	Fallout, New York University Shanghai
2015	Facebook Asia-Pacific, Women’s Leadership Day, closing speaker

Selected bibliography

Masters, H.G., Disobedient To History, Interview with Sim Chi Yin, Art Asia Pacific, 2 Jan 2024, https://artasiapacific.com/issue/new-york-disobedient-to-history-interview-with-sim-chi-yin

Aw, Tash, Personal Histories, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2023, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/ 2023/05/11/personal-histories-sim-chi-yin/

Aw, Tash, Writing Into Silence, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2023, https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/05/13/writing-into-silence-tash-aw/

Chu, Chloe, She Never Rode That Trishaw Again, Art Asia Pacific, July/August 2022

Hattam, Jennifer, Photographing History’s Silences and Gaps, Hyperallergic, 25 October 2022, https:// hyperallergic.com/772131/photographing-historys-silences-and-gaps/

Aima, Rahel, The Low-Maintenance Languor of the 17th Istanbul Biennial, Frieze Magazine, November 2022, https:// www.frieze.com/article/17th-istanbul-biennial

Sim Chi Yin and Maaza Mengiste: Intervening in Colonial Archives, Ocula, December 2021, https://ocula.com/ magazine/conversations/sim-chi-yin-maaza-mengiste/

I-shan, Sam: Sim Chi Yin at Les Rencontres d’Arles, October 2021, https://youtu.be/840HX8B09rg

Han, Christine: Singaporean Artists Consider the Lie of the Land, Ocula, September 2021, https://ocula.com/ magazine/insights/the-lie-of-the-land-in-singapore/

Houghton, Max: Emerging in Fragments: Sim Chi Yin’s ‘One Day We’ll Understand’, magnumphotos.com, July 2021, https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/emerging-fragments-sim-chi-yin-one-day-well-understand/

Chakanetsa, Kim: My Family’s Hidden HIstory, BBC World Service, The Conversation, 1 April 2019, https:// www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csynhz

Tribillon, Justinien: A Mirage of Luxury Built on Sand. Magnum Photos, March 2019, https:// www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/environment/sim-chi-yin-a-mirage-of-luxury-built-on-sand/

Tribillon, Justinien: Shifting Sands, Migrant Journal, issue 5, November 2018, https://migrantjournal.com/products/ pre-order-migrant-journal-no-5-micro-odysseys

Kay Min, Soh: Most People Were Silent, Asian Nobel Peace Prize photographer Sim Chi Yin at ICA Singapore, Art Radar Journal, 3 October 2018, http://artradarjournal.com/2018/10/03/asian-nobel-peace-prize-photographer-sim-chi- yin-at-ica-singapore/

Kiu, Joella Qingyi: Sim Chi Yin on the place of facts in making art, experimentation and the power of stories, Object Lessons Space, September 2018, https://objectlessons.space/posts/2018/sim-chi-yin

Bayley, Bruno: Magnum Nominee Sim Chi Yin Waited Years to be Able to Commit to Photography, Magnum Photos, July 2018, https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/magnum-nominee-sim-chi-yin-waited-years-to- be-able-to-commit-to-photography/

Toh, Wen Li: Nobel Peace Prize Photographer On a Roll, The Straits Times, 30 July 2018, https:// www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/nobel-peace-prize-photographer-on-a-roll

Seymour, Tom: Sim Chi Yin Investigates the Fallout, British Journal of Photography, issue 7873, July 2018, p 38–49, https://www.bjp-online.com/2018/06/sim-chi-yin/

Smit, Gareth: Photos of Nuclear Landscapes That Are Meant to Disorient, The New Yorker, 15 May 2018, https:// www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/photos-of-nuclear-landscapes-that-are-meant-to-disorient

Cornet, Laurence, Sim Chi-Yin : Fallout, l’exposition du Prix Nobel de la paix, L’Œil de la Photographie, March 2018, https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/sim-chi-yins-fallout-a-nobel-peace-prize-exhibition/

Leyl, Sharanjit, Capturing Nuclear War, BBC Newsday, 19 January 2018, http://chiyinsim.com/bbc-fallout/

Mclean, Matthew: 15th Istanbul Biennial, review, Frieze Magazine, issue 192, January–February 2018, https://frieze.com/article/15th-istanbul-biennial-0

Haydaroglu, Mine: the 15th Istanbul Biennial, review, Artforum Magazine, December 2017 issue, https:// www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201710/the-15th-istanbul-biennial-72471

Lu Stout, Kristie, Photographer Sheds Light on Beijing’s “Rat Tribe”, CNN, 18 February 2015, https://edition.cnn.com/ videos/tv/2015/02/18/intv-lu-stout-sim-chi-yin-china-rat-tribe.cnn