Iris Sham Sin Hang (b. 1985, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice intertwines food, image and bookmaking. With a background in politics and law, her work arises from a sustained engagement with social justice, personal and collective memory, cultural rootedness, and the complex, layered histories that define identity especially within the postcolonial realities of Hong Kong and its diasporic resonances.

For her, food is more than mere nourishment for the body; it functions as a living political and poetic archive. She treats ingredients, fermentation processes, and communal meals as sites of resistance, remembrance, and reconnection. A photograph seizes moments that are already past while food tells stories of labor, seasonality, cultural endurance, and survival. Both the image and the edible become her instruments to slow time to mourn what has been lost, to honor what persists, and to envision what might yet grow and take hold.

Her practice is fundamentally an extended gesture of care. Through research, edible interventions, lens-based work, photobooks and cross-disciplinary acts, she aims to create spaces where intimate personal stories can coexist and converse with broader social and historical questions cultivating tenderness and resilience in times of uncertainty. 

Sham has exhibited her work internationally across platforms in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Canada, Austria, Egypt and the UK. She has participated in notable exhibitions including the Chennai Photo Biennale (2024/25), Peer to Peer UK/HK (2022), Taipei Arts Festival's 'Big Bang Wagner' (2013), Lianzhou International Photography Festival (2013), Dali International Photography Exhibition (2013), and the Hong Kong International Photography Festival (2010, 2020). Her practice also includes solo exhibitions in Hong Kong (2014, 2020) and a duo exhibition in Bangkok (2025).

She was selected for Yumi Goto’s photobook workshop at the Hong Kong International Photography Festival (2023) and completed the Reminders Photography Stronghold residency in Kyoto (2024).