Sim Chi Yin (SG)
![Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series [Fallout] (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SCY201710290533-SCY201711190208-200x70.jpg)
Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series Fallout (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.
Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series Fallout (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.
Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, and some of the most pressing issues of our time. She is currently based between London and Beijing. Chi Yin was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017 and created a solo show for the Nobel Peace Centre museum in Oslo on nuclear weapons, combining video installation and still photography. Her work has been exhibited in the Istanbul Biennale (2017), at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Hanart TZ Gallery Hong Kong, the Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea. Chi Yin joined Magnum Photos as a nominee member in 2018. She is currently also a PhD candidate on scholarship at King’s College London, in War Studies.