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Simryn Gill
1959, Malaysia
Simryn Gill
1959, Malaysia

Gill lives and works in Sydney and Port Dickson, Malaysia. Her practice, which includes conceptual photographs, sculptures, writings and drawings, explores memory, history, migration, cultures, places, landscapes, and urban development. Some of her projects involve installations made from casually collected objects, forms made from casting found materials, or cutouts of certain phrases from various books. Gill has exhibited widely, including at the the Venice Biennale (2013); documenta 12 (2007), Liverpool Biennale (2006), Singapore Biennale (2006), Bienal Internacional de Arte Contempor neo de Sevilla (2006), Bienal de São Paulo (2004), Biennale of Sydney (2002), Flight Patterns, MOCA Los Angeles (2000), 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial (1999); 5th Istanbul Biennial (1997); Cities on the Move (travelling show, 1997–1999), and Transculture, Venice Biennale (1995). She has held solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London, the Smithsonian’s Arthur M Sackler Gallery, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.