Born in Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1996 M.S. in Theory, Criticism & History of Art, Design & Architecture, Pratt Institute
1994 B.F.A. in Painting, Pratt Institute
AWARDS & HONORS
2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Award in Architecture/Environmental Structures
2007-8 Location One International Residency Program, New York
2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 General Services Administration Commission Award, George H. Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, Maryland
2004 National Endowment for the Arts (collaboration with Fabric Workshop and Museum)
2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Award in Sculpture
2001 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
1990-94 Charles Pratt Scholar, Full Merit Scholarship; Pratt National Talent Search 1st Place
1990 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts (selected by The White House Commissioners)
1990 Arts Recognition and Talent Search Award in Visual Arts
(Selected by National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts)
1991 Herb Alpert Endowment Award in Visual Arts Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts
(Selected by the Maryland Board of Education, Baltimore, M.D.)
Finalist in Painting, Maryland Artists Equity Competition, Baltimore, MD
Gold Key Recipient in Drawing, Scholastic Art Award, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., curated by Joanna Marsh (forthcoming)
2008 MTA Art in Transit Commission-Broadway Station House, Queens NY
Broadway Station House, Queens NY
2007 "Jean Shin: Key Promises", Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
2006 "TEXTile", The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 "Jean Shin: Glasscape", Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris
"Jean Shin: Accumulations", University at Albany, SUNY, NY
2004 "Jean Shin: Hide", Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (curator Elizabeth Dunbar)
"Projects 81: Jean Shin", Museum of Modern Art, NYC (curator Eva Respini)
"Jean Shin: Recent Works", Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC
2003 "Penumbra", Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NYC
1999 "444", Apex Art, New York, NY, (curator Susan Harris)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
"We Interrupt...", curated by Marcia Tanner, Mills College of Art Museum, Oakland, CA
"Mei Guo", Contrast Gallery, Shanghai, China, curated by Lilly Wei
2007 NEXT WAVE ART, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Merit Badge 2, curated by Jason Middlebrookle, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
"Molecules That Matter", The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (2008-2009)
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (2009)
"New Media/ New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and Museum"
Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH, curated by Cynthia Goodman
"Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising", Fine Art Museum in Houston, TX
"One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now" (traveling exhibition)
Berkeley Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (forthcoming)
Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum at the University of Houston, TX
Japanese American Nationanl Museum, Los Angeles, forthcoming (2008)
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii (2008)
"101 Dresses", Artspace, New Haven, CT (forthcoming)
2006 "New York Interrupted", curated by Dan Cameron, PKM Gallery, Beijing China
"Transparently Built", Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
"One Way or Another", Asia Society, New York
"Material Abuse", Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
"Process and Promise", Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, New York
"Conversations", curated by Sharon Louden, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
"Metal, Leather, Resin, Wax", Blue Acier, Inc., Tampa, FL
2005 "Glass Seriously", curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
"Fear Gear", curated by Euridice Arratia and Elizabeth Beer, Roebling Hall
"Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York", Sculpture Center, New York
"Chinatown In/Flux", Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
"Harlem Postcards", Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
Group exhibition curated by Peter Franck and Kathleen Triem Field Sculpture Park, Ghent NY
"Material Matters", Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
"Selection ’05", Lower Eastside Printshop, NYC
"New Prints 2005 /Autumn", International Print Center New York
2004 "Counter Culture", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC (curator Melanie Cohn)
"Open House: Working in Brooklyn", The Brooklyn Museum of Art
(curators Charlotta Kotik & Tumelo Mosaka)
"Troy Story", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curator Marco Maggi)
"Up and Coming: Jean Shin & Julianne Swartz", ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (selected by Lauri Firstenberg, presented by Mixed Greens Gallery)
2003 "A Tenth Anniversary Exhibition", Frederieke Taylor Gallery
"Custom Fit", Smack Mellon Gallery, NYC (curator Kathleen Gilrain)
"Bits 'n Pieces", DUMBO Arts Center, NYC (curator Beth Venn)
"Supranatural", Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC
"Reconfiguring Space: Blueprints for Art in General", Art in General, NYC
"New Prints 2003", International Print Center, NYC
"Underlined", Center Gallery at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, NYC
(curators Casey Ruble & Sarah Hirzel)
"Immediate Medium", Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY (curator Lisa Hatchadoorian)
"Grand Opening Collections", Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (curator Lynda Hartigan)
"Ice House Project 01: Passion", Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Truro, MA
"Clotheslines", Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA (curator Katherine Talcott)
"AAF New York" (Mixed Greens Gallery and MS Editions), New York City
"Tradeshow: Currents in New Asian American Art", CR2 Gallery, Shanghai, China (curator Joan Kee)
"The Invented World", Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
"Open Studios: 03", Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2002 "Nature of the Beast", Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC
"Multitude", Artists Space, NYC (curators Lauri Firstenberg and Irene Small)
"Mixed Description", Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
"Barometer", Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC
"The AAAC Story: Work in Permanent Collection", Asian American Arts Centre, NYC
"Mixed Greens Selections", Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Real Interface", space imA, Seoul, Korea
2001 "Material Whirled", Art in General, NYC (curator Laura Lobdell)
"Microwave, Three", 123 Watts Gallery, NYC (curator Josee Bienvenu)
"Out of Line & Over the Top", P.S. 122 Gallery, NYC (curator Susan Canning)
"Lost and Found: Reclaimed Moments", The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC (curator Mihee Ahn)
"Mixed Greens @ Space 101 Gallery", Brooklyn, NYC
"Elsewhere, HEREart Gallery", NYC (curator Alice Smit)
"Groundzero: 01", 129 Lafayette, NYC (curator Jenny Moore)
Brooklyn, New Work, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC (curator Linda Francis)
"15 Asian American Artists", University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (curator Howardena Pindell)
"Six Sculptors", Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY (curator Kathleen Gilrain)
"Parts", Untitled (space) Gallery, New Haven, CT (curator Debbie Hesse)
"Material World", Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2000 "Collector's Choice", Exit Art/The First World, NYC (selected by Paige West)
"Meat Market Art Fair" (Mixed Greens Gallery), NYC
"Apartment #3F", Asian American Arts Centre, NYC (curator Mihee Ahn)
"Line", Artspace, New Haven, CT (curator Debbie Hesse)
"Wide Open", Gretel's File, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 "Black and White", Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"10th Annual Juried Exhibition", Viridian Artists Inc., NYC (juror Susan Harris)
"5th Annual International Exhibition of Women's Art", SoHo 20, NYC (juror Debra Singer)
"7th Annual Juried Art Exhibition", Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Exploring America's Cultures: Korean American Art Exhibition", Columbia University, NYC
1998 "Under Construction, GEN ART: New Visions '98", West Chelsea Arts Building, NYC (curator Debra Singer)
"Recent Work: Carrie Hamilton, Seren Morey, Jean Shin", Right Bank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"New Directions '98", Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (curator Eugenie Tsai)
"Art from Detritus", AIA Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (curator Vernita Nemec)
1990 Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
(1 of 6 artists selected by The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/ REVIEWS
Rapaport, Brooke. “Jean Shin’s Accumulations of Ephemera”, Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2008.
_________. “Goings On About Town-Art: Jean Shin”, The New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
Cheng, DeWitt. "Gray Area", East Bay Express, January 30. 2008.
Sheets, Hilarie. "Jean Shin: Frederieke Taylor Gallery", ArtNews, May 2007.
Smith, Roberta. "Jean Shin: Key Promises", New York Times, March 30, 2007.
Calendar, New York Sun, March 2007.
Murtaza Vali, “Jean Shin: TEXTile,” Art Asia Pacific, issue #52 March/April 2007.
“Artists on Spirituality”, Art Asia Pacific, issue #51, Winter 2006.
Patel, Vibhuti, “Insiders Looking Out,” Newsweek, International Edition, October 2, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. "A Melange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities", The New York Times, September 8, 2006.
Wrobleski, Debbi. “Life as Art”, Industry, June – July 2006.
Voeller, Megan. “People of Substance”, Weekly Planet Tampa, March 29, 2006.
Henry, Amanda. “Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down”, The Tampa Tribune, March 23, 2006.
Hagen, Susan. "Chinatown Revisited," Philadelphia City Paper, December 2005.
Gammage, Jeff. "Glimpses of Chinatown," The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 20, 2005.
Hemmings, Jessica. “Dress to impress,” Selvedge , September/October 2005, pgs. 34-38.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. "Critic's Pick: Jean Shin", ARTNews, September 2005.
Morgan, Robert C. "Who Takes Glass Seriously," Glass: The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Fall 2005.
Kunitz, Daniel, "Better See It Now", The New York Sun, July 28, 2005.
Liquori, Donna. "A Common Thread", Times Union, July 24, 2005.
Scott, Andrea. "The New New Things: Sculputre Center offers too many object lessons," TimeOut NY, June 22, 2005.
Johnson, Ken. "Glass Seriously," The New York Times, May 6, 2005.
Smith, Roberta. "Many Shades of the Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions", The New York Times, May 27, 2005.
Scheinman, Pamela. "Jean Shin: Playing with Space and Time," FiberArts, April/May 2005.
Lebowitz, Cahty. “Counter Culture on the Bowery and vicinity,” Art in America, November 2004.
Chung, Shinyoung. “Reviews: Jean Shin, Frederieke Taylor Gallery,” Art Asia Pacific, Fall 2004.
Harris, Susan. “Jean Shin at Frederieke Taylor”, Art in America, October 2004.
Volk, Gregory. “Big Brash Borough”, Art in America, September 2004.
Shrier, Sonya. “Counter Culture: New Museum of Contemporary Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2004.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Treasure Hunt” TimeOut New York, August 5, 2004.
Graseber, Laurel, “Mission: Possible”, New York Times, July 20, 2004.
Yarnell, Kolby. “A Tour of the Bowery, Through an Artist’s Eye,” New York Sun, July 8, 2004.
Rosenburg, Karen. “From Flophouse to Art House: The New Museum Puts Down Roots on the Bowery,” New York Magazine, July 12, 2004.
Tsai, Eugenie. "Jean Shin, 'Projects 81', MOMAQns," TimeOut New York, July 8-15, 2004
Baker,Kenneth. "Hosfelt Gallery show suggest we're blinded by information," San Francisco Gate, July 10, 2004
Boxer, Sarah. "The Modern's Dirty Laundry," The New York Times, June 20, 2004
Kimmelman, Michael, "Art of Summer: A Seasonal Migration of Cultural Scope," New York Times, August 8, 2003
Recommended Art Listing, "Socrates Sculpture Park" TimeOut New York, July 3-August 7, 2003
Conner, Jill, "New York: Smack Mellon Studios", Contemporary, issue 52, July 2003
Kim, Jin Hae, "Collecting Umbrellas on a Windy Day" The Korea Times, June 25, 2003
Recommended Art Listing, Time Out New York, July-August, 2003
Conner, Jill, "New York: Smack Mellon Studios", Contemporary, issue 52, July 2003
Kee, Joan, "Claim Check", Tema Celeste, March/April 2003
Recommended Listing, "bits 'n' pieces," Time Out Magazine, Feb-March 2003
Swan, Lisa, "Hanging Out the Washing," Strada Magazine, October 2002
"Culture Contact," KBS, (Korean National TV Broadcast, Interview), May 21, 2002
"Louis Comfort Tiffany Art Awards," Art in America, March 2002
Henderson, Tina, "Communication Breakdown at 123 Watts," Greenwich Village Gazette, October 12, 2001
Wright, Jeffrey, "Space-the Final Frountier: Vacant Building Serves as Host and Collaborator in
SoHo's Biggest Summer Show," NYArts Magazine, October 2001
Lepore, Louise, "Found: Your Other Sock," Jane Magazine, October 2001
Trabelsi, Jasmine, "Jean Shin: Sculptor," Artsy Magazine, August 2001
Lewis, Achary, "'Material World' Exudes Innocence, The Harrisburg Patriot News, September 2001
Smith, Roberta, "Creativity Overhead, Underfoot and Even in the Air", New York Times, July 27, 2001
Schwendener, Martha, "Material Whirled", Artforum.com, May-June 2001
Cotter, Holland, "Mixed Greens @ Space 101", New York Times, May 18, 2001
Ganesh, Chitra, "Memory on the Edge of Collapse: Zarina Hashmi and Jean Shin," Dialogue, Spring 2001
Art Listing, Time Out New York, April 19-May 3, 2001
Ortiz, Lori, "Brooklyn Pastiche: The Brooklyn Art Scene," The Brooklyn Rail, Issue 45-46, Feb-March 2001
Rovzar, Chris, "Unconventional Art Overlooks Bus Stop," Yale Daily News, January 26, 2001
Art Listing, Time Out New York, November 25-December 30, 2000
Hoffman, Hank, "You Can/Can't Do that in Public," New Haven Advocate, Oct 5-11, 2000
Cotter, Holland , "A Kinetic Moment for Asian Art", The New York Times, March 24, 2000
Levin, Kim, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, March 21, 2000
Art Listing, Time Out New York, March 16-May 4, 2000
Jung, Eun-Jin, "Creating Aesthetic in Everyday Life," The Korea Times, March 4, 2000
Art Listing, Time Out New York, July 15-22, 1999
Art Listing, New York Magazine, July 19, 1999
City Arts, PBS, February 1999
Cotter, Holland, Art Guide, The New York Times, February 20, 1998
Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices", The Village Voice, February 18, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
Jean Shin: Travel Journal, Museum of Modern Art, Ford Family Activity Guide, New York, 2006-07
Cameron, Dan, New York Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, 2006
Mertes, Lorie, Jean Shin: TEXTile, Fabric Workshop and Museum, October 2006
Chiu, Melissa, Karin Higa, and Susette Min, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society, 2006
Huberman, Anthony, Mary Ceruti, and Franklin Sirmans, Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York,
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY 2005
Inselmann, Andrea, “Material Matters”, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2005
Wei, Lilly, “Glass Seriously,” Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, LIC, NY 2005
Riker, Janet, “Jean Shin: Accumulations,” University Art Museum, Albany, NY 2005
Lee, Lydia, “First Editions: Special Editions Fellowships, 2004-05,” Lower East Side Printshop, NYC 2005
Ramoran, Edwin, “Asian American Specificity, A New Curatorial Hybrid,” Chinatown In/Flux,
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, 2005
Dunbar, Elizabeth, “Jean Shin: Hide”, Ulrich Museum of Art, 2004
Min, Susette, “Transfiguring the Everyday” Jean Shin: Reconstructed Remnants, plein air corp, 2004
Respini, Eva. “Projects 81: Jean Shin”, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004
Joan Kee, "Who's Afraid of Asian American Art?" Tradeshow, CR2 Gallery, Shanghai, China, April 2003
Firstenberg, Lauri, and Irene Small, “Multitude” exhibition brochure, Artists Space, September 2002
Yoo, Jin-Sang, “Real_Interface,” exhibition brochure, space imA, Seoul Korea, May 2002
Raskin, David, Parts, exhibition brochure, untitled (space) Gallery, November 2001
Bienvenue, Josee, Microwave, three, exhibition brochure, 123 Watts Gallery, September 2001
Graves, Rebecca, 6 Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, September 2001
Harris, Susan, Material Whirled, exhibition brochure, Art in General, April 2001
Fifteen Asian American Artists, exhibition brochure, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, March 2001
Ahn, Mihee, Apt #3F, exhibition brochure, Asian American Arts Centre, March-April 2000
Harris, Susan, 444, exhibition brochure, Apex Art, July 1999
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2007 Location ONE, New York, NY
2004 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Lower East Side Printshop, Special Editions Fellow, NYC
Dieu Donne Papermill Residency, NYC
2003 Art Omi International Artists Colony, NY
BCAT Rotunda Gallery Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Ssamzie Space, International Artist Studio Program, Seoul, South Korea
Smack Mellon Studios, Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Vermont Studio Center, VT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
General Services Administration, George H. Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, MD
Studio Museum Harlem, NY
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Boise Museum of Art, Boise ID
Ulrich Museum, Wichita KS
Museum of Glass, International Center of Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, VA
Citigroup
JP Morgan Chase
The West Collection at SEI
