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Jean Shin

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Born: Seoul Korea
Lives: New York City

Education
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1996 MS in Art History and Criticism, Pratt Institute
1994 BFA in Painting, Pratt Institute


Solo Exhibitions
2007 Jean Shin: Key Promises, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City
2006 Jean Shin: TEXTile, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Jean Shin: Glasscape, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris
Jean Shin: Accumulations, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, curator Janet Riker
2004 Projects 81: Jean Shin, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, curator Eva Respini
Jean Shin: Recent Works, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City
Hide, Ulrich Museum of Art, KS, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar
2003 Penumbra, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, New York City
1999 44, Apex Art, New York City, curator Susan Harris


Group Exhibitions
2007
RED HOT- Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection,
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Molecules that Matter, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming in September)
Next Wave Visual Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY, curator Dan Cameron
4 Artists: Work by Recent Pratt Alum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, curator Eugenie Tsai
101 Dresses, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curated by Linda Lindroth and Denise Markonish
New Media/ New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and Museum,Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH, curated by Cynthia Goodman
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (traveling exhibition)
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX and Berkeley Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

2006
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society Museum, NYC
Curated by Susette Min, Karin Higa, Melissa Chiu (catalogue)
New York Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, curated by Dan Cameron (catalogue)
Material Abuse, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC
(traveling exhibition, Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University, New York)
Process and Promise, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, NYC (catalogue)
Ensemble, Artspace, Untitled Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
Conversations, Ambrossino Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Sharon Louden
Metal Leather Resin Wax, Blue Acier, Tampa, FL
Transparently Built, Museum of Glass, International Center of Contemporary Art, WA

2005
Fear Gear, Roebling Hall Gallery, New York City, curated by Euridice Arratia
Material Matters, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
curated by Andrea Inselmann (catalogue)
Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY,
curated by Mary Ceruti, Franklin Sirmans, Anthony Huberman (catalogue)
Glass, Seriously, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projsects, LIC, NY, curated by Lilly Wei
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, selected by Christine Kim
Chinatown In/Flux, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Selection Fall �05, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
New Prints 2005/Autumn, International Print Center New York

2004
Counter Culture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City,
curated by Melanie Franklin Cohn
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
curated by Charlotta Kotik (catalogue)
Good Fortune, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York City
Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Marco Maggie
Up and Coming Selections, ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain,
curated by Lauri Firstenberg (catalogue)

2003
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City
Custom Fit, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York City, curated by Kathleen Gilrain
Bits �n Pieces, DUMBO Arts Center, New York City, curated by Beth Venn
Supranatural, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York City
Reconfiguring Space: Blueprints for Art in General, Art in General, New York City
New Prints 2003, International Print Center, New York City
Underlined, Center Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York City
Immediate Medium, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY curator Lisa Hatchadoorian
Ice House Project 01: Passion, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Truro, MA
Clotheslines, Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Tradeshow: Currents in New Asian American Art, CR2 Gallery, Shanghai, China, curated by Joan Kee
The Invented World, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Open Studios: 03, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea

Bibliography
Church, Amanda, review, Flash Art September 2007
Hope, Bradley, �Pratt Presents Four Fresh Faces,� The New York Sun, June 14, 2007
Sheets, Hillary, �Jean Shin at Frederieke Taylor,� Art News, May 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 M�lange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities,� New York Times, September 8, 2006
Johnson, Ken, �Material Abuse,� New York Times Review, July 21, 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 Philadephia Inquirer, October 20, 2005
Mendelsohn, Meredith, �Critic�s Pick: Jean Shin,� ARTnews, September 2005
Hemmings, Jessica, �Dressed to Impress: Conceptual Uniforms that turn Preconceptions Inside Out,� Selvedge, 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: Sculpture Center offers too many object lessons,� Time Out NY,June 22, 2005
Johnson, Ken, �Glass Seriously,� New York Times, May 6, 2005
Smith, Roberta, �Many Shades of the Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions,� New York Times, May 27, 2005
Scheinman, Pamela, �Jean Shin: Playing with Space and Time,� FiberArts, Jan/Feb 2005
Lebowitz, Cathy, �Counter Culture on the Bowery and vicinity,� Art in America, November 2004
Harris, Susan, �Jean Shin at Frederieke Taylor,� Art in America, October 2004
Gregory Volk, �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,� Time Out New York, August 5, 2004
Graseber, Laurel, �Mission: Possible� The New York Times, July 30, 3004
Yarnell, Kolby, �A Tour of the Bowery, Through an Artist�s Eye,� The New York Sun, July 8, 2004
Karen Rosenberg, �From Flophouse to Art House: The New Museum Puts Down Roots on the Bowery,� New York Magazine, July 12, 2004
Baker, Kenneth, �Hosfelt Gallery show suggest we�re blinded by information,� San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2004
Tsai, Eugenie, �Jean Shin: Projects 81,� Time Out NY, July 8, 2004
Boxer, Sarah, �The Modern�s Dirty Laundry,� New York Times, June 20, 2004
Hill, Joe, �Open House: Working in Brooklyn,� Contemporary Magazine, issue 65, 2004
Stern, Steven, �In Sink: The New Museum of Contemporary Art taps the Bowery for an interactive show,� Time Out NY KIDS, Summer 2004
�Museum of Modern Art, Projects 81: Jean Shin,� Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2004
Kimmelman, Michael, �Art of Summer: A Seasonal Migration of Cultural Scope,� New York Times August 8, 2003
Conner, Jill, �New York: Smack Mellon Studios�, Contemporary, issue 52, July 2003


Grants/Awards
2007 Location One International Residency Program, New York City
2006-07 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006-07 General Services Administration Art in Architecture Award,
Public Commission for George H. Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, Maryland
2003-06 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2004-05 Dieu Donne Papermill, Studio Workshop Residency, New York City
Lower East Side Printshop, Special Editions Fellow, New York City
2004 Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
2003 New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship Award in Sculpture
Art Omi International Artists Residency Program, Ghent, NY
BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Ssamzie Space, International Artist Studio Program, Seoul, South Korea
Smack Mellon Studios, Residency Program, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
1992 Vermont Studio Center, VT
1990-4 Charles Pratt Scholar, Full Merit Scholarship & Pratt National Talent Search 1990 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts
(selected by White House Commissioners)
National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts Award


Projects
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Citicorp, NY
Chase Bank, NY
Cleveland Clinic
Boise Art Museum, ID
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Sculpture Center, NY
Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
Asia Society and Museum, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Artspace, New Haven, CT
Museum of Glass, International Center of Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
PEW Foundation and Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
University Art Museum, Albany, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, University of Wichita, KS
General Services Administration, Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, NY


Publications
Hallmark, Kara Kelly, Encyclopedia of Asian American Artist, 2007
Mertes, Lorie, Jean Shin: TEXTile, Fabric Workshop and Museum, October 2006
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
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
Cohn, Melanie, �Counter Culture,� New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2004
Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka, �Open House: Working in Brooklyn,� Brooklyn Museum 2004
Firstenberg, Lauri, �Hemispheric Contemporary Art?� ARCO, Madrid, Spain 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
Harris, Susan, Material Whirled, exhibition brochure, Art in General, April 2001
Harris, Susan, 444, exhibition brochure, Apex Art, July 1999




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