Sim Chi Yin
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"Hatches over missiles for intercepting Soviet warheads, North Dakota, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 42 x 63 cm, 2017 -
"Hyesan, about 120km from North Korea's nuclear test site, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017 -
"Control room, decommissioned Titan II Missile Site, Arizona, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017 -
"Sentry post, China-North Korea border, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017 -
"Minuteman II Missile, Delta 09 silo, South Dakota, United States, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017 -
"Mountain range surrounding the Nevada Test Site, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 109 x 157 cm, 2017 -
"Tumen River, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017 -
"Stanley R Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, North Dakota, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 109 x 157 cm, 2017 -
"Titan II Missile, Arizona, from Most People Were Silent", Pigment print, 76 x 113 cm, 2017
Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore, SG) is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. She works across photography, film, installation, performance and book-making.
She is participating in the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and has exhibited at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); the Barbican, London (2023); Camera Austria, Graz (2024); Harvard Art Museums, Boston, USA (2021); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2021); Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017), Datsuijo, Tokyo (2024); 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) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial (2021). Her work is in the collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Harvard Art Museums, M+ Hong Kong, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Singapore Art Museum, and the National Museum Singapore. 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. She is making her first theatre performance, premiering in August 2024.
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> EXHIBITIONS
- Transit
- That Pause of Space
- A highlight of ''One Day We’ll Understand''
- One Day We’ll Understand