Cheryl Sim is the Managing Director and Curator at PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art as well as a media artist and scholar. She began her professional life at Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada, which led her to video art and an involvement with artist run culture. As an artist, her work in video and installation, presented in North America and Europe has persistently dealt with questions of identity formation, women’s labour and relations of power. Her work as Managing Director and Curator at PHI Foundation for contemporary art has been greatly informed by the artist-run ethos and learning from the margins. Recent exhibitions include GROWING FREEDOM: Yoko Ono and RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting. She has a PhD in the études et pratiques des arts program at UQÀM which allowed her to explore ethnic clothing and its importance to diaspora identity. Her book Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.

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