SIM Chi Yin

沈綺穎

born in Singapore, 1978

1978	Born in Singapore
2000	BA in History (first class honours), London School of Economics and Political Science
2001	MSc in History of International Relations (distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
2022-2023	Whitney Museum Independent Study Programme, New York. Artist fellow
2018-2025	PhD in War Studies (art practice-based), King’s College London, University of London

Selected solo exhibitions

2026	归舟: Longings, Returns, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
2025	Chronotopia; in collaboration with curatorial consultant, Sam I-shan and exhibition designer Benjamin Bannan, Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts, Australia
2024	The Mountain That Hid, Datsuijo, Tokyo, Japan
2021	One Day We’ll Understand, Zilberman, Berlin, Germany
	One Day We’ll Understand, Interventions, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
	Most People Were Silent, Le Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020	Shifting Sands & Most People Were Silent, Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
	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
	Fallout, Cortona On The Move Photo Festival, Italy
2017	Fallout, Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo, Norway

Selected group exhibitions

2026	Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
	After the Monsoon: Art & War in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
	Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
	Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), Migros Museum Zurich, Switzerland
2025	Talking Objects, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore
	I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph, London, UK
	Visual Kinship, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
	Invisible Race, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
	Disobedience Archive, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
	A Silence So Loud, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, USA
2024	Swaying the Current, Zilberman Berlin, Germany
	One Way Ashore, a Thousand Channels, the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
	Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France
	Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld—Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities, and Other Transcendences, Haus der Kulturen der Welt \| HKW, Berlin, Germany
	See/Change – Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Somerset House, London, UK
	Disobedience Archive, 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: Foreigners Everywhere, Venice, Italy
	Nomadic, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
	At the Edge of Land, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
	Chronic Compulsions: Selected Works from Art Addicts Anonymous, The Private Museum Singapore
2023	Double Exposure, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
	RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, Barbican Centre, London, UK
	Sand: Resource, life, desire, Museum Sinclair Haus, Germany
	No Necessary Correspondence – the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
	War is over! Peace has not yet begun, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
	Transit, Zilberman, Berlin, Germany
	Indigo Waves, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2022	17. İstanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
	That Pause of Space, Zilberman Selected, Istanbul, Turkey
	To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, ASEAN Culture House, Busan, South Korea
	Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, Jorge B. Vargas Museum, the Philippines
2021	Devour the Land, Harvard Art Museums, United States
	Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
	Rediscovery, MAB Modern Studio, Shanghai
	The Lie Of The Land, FOST Gallery, Singapore
	What Happened Here?, Appetite, Singapore
	Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital, Thailand Biennale, Korat, Thailand
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
	“One Day We’ll Understand”, Jendela gallery, Esplanade, Singapore
2017	The Rat Tribe, Istanbul Biennale
	The Rat Tribe, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
2016	Dying To Breathe, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina
	Dying To Breathe, Objectifs, Singapore
	The Rat Tribe, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2015	Burmese Spring, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
2012	The Rat Tribe, PhotoVille, New York
	Burmese Spring, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
2008	The Workers From Samsui, The Necessary Stage Fringe Festival, Singapore

Selected awards

2024	Sovereign Art Prize, shortlist, Hong Kong
2020	Discovery Award, Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
	Nominee, Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, Vera List Center, The New School, New York
	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
	Prix Pictet, nominated
2014	Her World “Young Woman Achiever of the Year”
	British Journal of Photography, “Ones to Watch”
2013	W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography, finalist
	ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu Awards, Discernment Award and People’s Choice award
	Photo District News, PDN 30
2011	Santa Fe Prize, nominated