Biographical Text
Simryn Gill was born in Singapore in 1959 and lives and works in Sydney and Port Dickson, Malaysia. Her wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, photography, drawing and writing. She works from her immediate surroundings employing often modest materials and methods in making works which are attentive to place, provenance and local and personal experience in relation to the world. Her most recent solo presentation, Here art grows on trees, was held in the Australian Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Catherine de Zegher. Her work was included in dOCUMENTA (12) and (13), Kassel, Germany (2007, 2012) and numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2013), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2013), the Getty Center, Los Angeles (2011), the Centre for Contemporary Photograpy, Melbourne (2009), the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2008), and Tate Modern, London (2006).