SIM Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore) is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions, and text-based performance, focusing on history, conflict, memory, and extraction.

An exhibition of selected works from One Day We’ll Understand debuted at the photography festival Rencontres d’Arles 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include One Day We’ll Understand, Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden (2020), One Day We’ll Understand, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019), Most People Were Silent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2018), and Fallout, Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017). Her work has been included in group shows, such as Most People Were Silent, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, UK (2019); UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018); Relics, Jendela (Visual Arts Space), The Esplanade, Singapore (2018); and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2017). In 2017, Sim was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer. In 2020, she was also nominated for the Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, and shortlisted as a finalist for the Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award.

Sim lives and works in New York, USA.

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