Iris Sham Sin Hang (b. 1985, Hong Kong) explores the intersections of social justice, motherhood and diaspora, tracing how individuals navigate the quiet violence of colonial displacement and systemic control within contemporary realities.

With a dual background in politics and law from the University of Hong Kong, alongside an Alternative MA in Food-Based Art Research from The Gramounce, her interdisciplinary practice brings together image-making and culinary processes as forms of cultural and social inquiry. Drawing on the intersections of photography and food, her work reclaims personal and collective narratives, examining human agency in the face of ongoing societal shifts.

Sham’s practice turns toward a deep material engagement, utilizing sustainable darkroom chemistry, site-sensitive pigments and fermentation to investigate concepts of metabolic time and memory. Through these unseen processes of material transformation, she develops works that consider both the physical and metaphoric dimensions of time, shifting focus away from rigid mechanical structures to explore new modes of connection and ecological justice.

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).