Curriculum Vitae
Born in Seoul, South Korea; Raised in the United States
Lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson Vallery, New York
EDUCATION
2021 Honorary Doctorate, New York Academy of Art, NYC
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1996 MS in Art History and Criticism, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1994 BFA in Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Jean Shin: The Museum Body, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (upcoming)
2024 Jean Shin: Perch, The Trustees.org, Appleton Farm, MA (upcoming)
2023 Jean Shin: Second Skin, Praise Shadows Gallery, MA
Jean Shin: Floating MAiZE, Brookfield Place, Toronto, ON
2022 Jean Shin: Freshwater, Philadelphia Contemporary, PA
Jean Shin: Home Base, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
2021 Jean Shin: Fallen, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY
2020 Jean Shin: Pause, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, CA
Jean Shin: Floating MAiZE, The Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, NYC
LMCC’s River to River Festival
2019 Outlooks: Jean Shin, Storm King Art Center, NY
Jean Shin: Celadon Landscape, Sarasota Art Museum, FL
2018 Jean Shin: Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Jean Shin: MetaCloud, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Jean Shin: MAiZE, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, AL
Jean Shin: MAiZE, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
2016 Jean Shin, Surface Tension, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York City
Jean Shin: Spring Collection, Materials for the Arts, New York City
2015 Jean Shin: Domesticated Landscapes, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jean Shin: Inclusions, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
Jean Shin: LINKS, Olson Gallery, Bethel University, MN
2013 Jean Shin: Host, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, curator Alexandra Swartz
Jean Shin: Intervals, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: Retreat, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Jean Shin: Recall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: Unlocking, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
Jean Shin: Pattern Folds, Calvin Klein Collection, New York, Los Angeles and Seoul, Korea
2009 Jean Shin: Common Threads, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2008 Jean Shin: And we move, Location One, New York City
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
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
2003 Penumbra, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, New York City
1999. 444, Apex Art, New York City, curator Susan Harris
PERMANENT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2023
Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch
2016
Elevated, MTA, Arts for Transit Commission, 63rd Street Station, Second Ave Subway, NYC
Reclaimed, City of Seattle, Arts & Culture, Seattle Public Utilities, North Transfer Station, WA
2012
100 Wishes, Maimonides Medical Center Lobby, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Settings, Percent for Art Commission, PS/IS 276, Battery Park City, NY
2008
Celadon Remnants, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit Commission, LIRR Broadway Station, Queens, NY
Dress Code, US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Award, George Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS
2022
Frederic Church Award, Olana Partnership, Hudson, NY
The National Academy of Design, Elected Member
2017
Public Art Network Year in Review, Certificate of Recognition, Americans for the Arts
2017
Pratt Alumni Achievement Award
2012
Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Award, Los Angeles, CA
2008
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Award in Architecture/Environmental Structures
2006-07
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2003
New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship Award in Sculpture
2001
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award
Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
1990-04
Charles Pratt Scholar, Full Merit Scholarship
1990
United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts (selected by White House Commissioners)
YoungArts, National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts Award
Pratt National Talent Search 1st Place
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2022
Stanford University, Denning Visiting Artist, CA
MacDowell, Artist Residency, NH
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Visiting Artist In Residence, St. Louis, MO
2020
Asia Art Archive in America, Leadership Fellow
2018
Wave Hill, Winter Workspace Residency, New York City
2016
Materials for the Art, Artist in Residence, New York City
2007-08
Location One International Residency Program, New York City
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
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
1992
Vermont Studio Center, International Residency Program, VT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
We Are the River: Complex Narratives, Conservation and Committing to New Jersey’s Waterways, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Touch Me:Feeling Fashion, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2023
At the Precipice: Responses to the Climate Crisis, Design Museum of Chicago, IL
Exercises in Imagination, National Academy of Design, New York City
Women Reframe American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY and New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Convergence Zone, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA
2022
Materia/Material, National Academy of Design, Governors Island, New York City
Fault Lines: Art and the Environment, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
The Fire and the Cow, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy
Forest Makings, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
Undercurrents, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institute, NY
2021
8 Americans, CHART Gallery, New York City
Our Solo Show, Engage Projects, Chicago
Re: Growth, Riverside Park, New York City
PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES, Practice and Presence, New York Academy of Art, NY
2020
Object Lessons, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY
2019
Seeing Things As They Really Are, Dieu Donne, NYC curated by Jenny Gerow
Color. Theory. & (b/w), Sarasota Art Museum, FL
2018
Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair, The 8th Floor Gallery, Rubin Foundation, NYC
Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Diapositives, Cassilhaus, NC
Towards a New Archeology, BAM, Brooklyn, NY
Overlap: Life Tapestries, Penn State Gallery, Philadephia, PA
2017
Person of the Crowd: Contemporary Art of Flanerie, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
March Madness, Fort Gansevoort Gallery, NY
Institutional Memory, Materials for the Art Gallery, LIC
2016
Game On, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Be My Guest: The Art of Interiors, No Longer Empty, New York, NY
Architectural Intersections, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Tracks, Symptoms, and Designations: Art and the Index, Cristin Tierney Gallery, NY
2015
Architectural Impulse, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Connect/Disconnect, Louisville Metro Government, Commission on Public Art (COPA), KY
2014
Conversations, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
BRIC Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Edition, Gallery at BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
Table, Visual Art Center of Richmond, VA
2013
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York City
Rehearsals: The Practice and Influence of Sound and Movement, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2012
Context Revisited, Art in Embassies Program, US State Department, Seoul, Korea
Redux, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York City
Morphology of the Print, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Makers in Print: International Exhibition at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Institute of Visual Arts and Frederick Layton Gallery at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
2011
Epic Units: Yayoi Kusama, Yeesookyoung, Jean Shin & Aiko Miyanaga, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
American Chambers: Post 90s American Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea, curated by Inhee Iris Moon
NYLon: International Artists Exchange Exhibition, Korean Cultural Service New York and Center UK London
Extreme Materials 2, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, curator Marie Via
Not the way you remembered, Queens Museum of Art, NY, curator Jamillah James
Handmade Abstraction, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
The Bank and Trust Show, Arts Westchester, curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley
2010
Theatrical Properties, bitforms gallery, NYC
Summer Selections at API, Art Projects International, NYC
The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2009
Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
X: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens, NYC
In Stitches, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, NY, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
New Prints 2009/Winter, International Print Center New York, NYC
ImMaterial, Black & White Gallery, NYC
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
The Perfect Fit--Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Fine Art Advisory Services, NYC
New York 9 + one, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Calvin Klein Collection, Kring Creative Culture Space, Seoul, Korea
2008
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City (catalogue)
We Interrupt Your Program, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, curator Marcia Tanner
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (traveling exhibition) Japanese American National Museum, LA, CA; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Movement, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, curator Linda Muehlig
CHROMA, Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curators Carson Fox and Jen Maloney
New Sculpture, The Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Mei Guo (Le Beau Monde- The Beautiful World), Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing China, curator Lilly Wei
2007
RED HOT- Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (catalogue)
Molecules that Matter, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, curator Dan Cameron
Four Artists: Work by Recent Pratt Alum, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, curator Eugenie Tsai
To the Left, Ctrl Gallery, Houston, TX
101 Dresses, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curators Linda Lindroth and Denise Markonish
New Media/ New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and MuseumContemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH, curator Cynthia Goodman
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (traveling exhibition) Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX and Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland, CA
What's Your Hobby?, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, curator Beth DeWoody
Merit Badge 2, Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at Rockland Center for the Arts West Nyack, NY, curator Jason Middlebrook
The Armory Show, Socrates Sculpture Park Booth, NYC
2006
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society and Museum, NYC curators Susette Min, Karin Higa, Melissa Chiu (catalogue)
New York Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, curator 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, curator Denise Markonish
Conversations, Ambrossino Gallery, Miami, FL, curator 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, curator Euridice Arratia
Material Matters, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, curator Andrea Inselmann (catalogue)
Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY, curators Mary Ceruti, Franklin Sirmans, Anthony Huberman (catalogue)
Glass, Seriously, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, LIC, NY, curator Lilly Wei
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, curator 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
The Armory Show, Dieu Donne Papermill Booth, NYC
E/AB Fair 05, New York City
2004
Counter Culture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, curator Melanie Franklin Cohn
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY curators Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Masaka (catalogue)
Good Fortune, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York City
Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curator Marco Maggie
Up and Coming Selections, ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, curator Lauri Firstenberg (catalogue)
FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France (catalogue)
Scope Miami, Miami Beach, FL
AAF New York, New York City
Editions/Artists Book Fair, New York City
2003
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City
Custom Fit, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York City, curator Kathleen Gilrain
Bits 'n Pieces, DUMBO Arts Center, New York City, curator 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, 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, New York City
Multitude, Artists Space, New York City, curator Lauri Firstenberg and Irene Small
Mixed Description, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Barometer, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York City
Mixed Greens Selections, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Real Interface, space imA, Seoul, Korea
2001
Material Whirled, Art in General, New York City, curator Laura Lobdell
Microwave, Three, 123 Watts Gallery, New York City, curator Josee Bienvenue
Out of Line & Over the Top, P.S. 122 Gallery, NYC, curator Susan Canning
Lost and Found: Reclaimed Moments, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed Greens @ Space 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Elsewhere, HEREart Gallery, New York City
Groundzero: 01, 129 Lafayette, New York City, curator Jenny Moore
Brooklyn, New Work, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City
15 Asian American Artists, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, curator Howardena Pindell
Six Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, curator Kathleen Gilrain
Parts, Untitled (space) Gallery, New Haven, CT
Material World, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2000
Collector's Choice, Exit Art/The First World, New York City, curator Paige West
Apartment #3F, Asian American Arts Centre, New York City
Meat Market Art Fair, New York City
Line, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curator Debbie Hesse
Wide Open, Gretel's File, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Black and White, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Exploring America's Cultures: Korean American Art, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York City
1998
New Visions '98: Under Construction, GEN ART, New York City, curator Debra Singer
1990
Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., selected by The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
PUBLICATIONS
Lawrence, Nora, Outlooks: Jean Shin, Storm King Art Center, 2019
Woo, Hyunsoo, Jean Shin: Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2018
Contributing essay, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, ed. Sharon Louden 2017
Socrates Sculpture Park, Thirty Years, 2016
Diaz, Eva, “Crown to Chain, and Back Again,” Jean Shin: LINKS, Olson Gallery, St. Paul, MN April 15, 2015
Karin Oen, Jean Shin: Inclusions, Crow Collection of Asian Art, May 2015 Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres, New York's Underground Art Museum: MTA Art and Design Monacelli Press November 11, 2014
Kim, Miki Wick and Shinyoung Chung, Korean Contemporary Art, published by Prestel 2012
Vine, Richard, “GlobalFiber,” Sook-Kyung Lee “From Destination to Departure”, Inhee Iris Moon, “Salute to the New Era of Global Korean Art,” NYLon, New York/London Exchange Exhibition, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London 2011
Joo, Henna, Epic of Units, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Korea 2011
Cassandra Coblentz, Jean Shin & Brian Ripel: Unlocking, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
AZ 2010
Cook, Sarah, Theatrical Properties, bitforms gallery, NYC 2010
Marsh, Joanna, Jean Shin: Common Threads, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC, 2009
Bloemink, Barbara J., Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, 2009
Giguere, Raymond J., Molecules That Matter, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY and The Chemical Heritage Foundation, PA, 2008
Muehlig, Linda, Movement, Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusetts, 2008
Heartney, Eleanor, GSA Art In Architecture: Selected Artworks 1997-2008, U.S. General Services Administration, 2008
McFadden, David Revere and Lowery Stokes Sims, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, 2008
Heartney, Eleanor, Alice Aycock: Swing Over, 2004 & Jean Shin: Dress Code, 2008, George H. Fallon Building, Baltimore, Maryland U.S. General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, 2008
Bahamón, Alejandro and Maria Camila Sanjinés, REMATERIAL: when waste becomes architecture, Parramón Publishers, Barcelona, 2008
Tanner, Marcia, We Interrupt Your Program, Mills College Art Museum, CA, 2008
Stroud, Marion Boulton, JEAN SHIN, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2007 (catalogue & DVD)
Hallmark, Kara Kelly, Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists, 2007
Mertes, Lorie, Jean Shin: TEXTile, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, October 2006
Shin, Jean, Jean Shin: Travel Journal, Museum of Modern Art, Ford Family Activity Guide, NY, 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 and Museum, New York, 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, Kansas, 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
Kotik, Charlotta and Tumelo Mosaka, Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, 2004
Firstenberg, Lauri, “Hemispheric Contemporary Art?” ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2004
Kee, Joan, "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
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS
Velie, Elaine, “$500M Performing Arts Center Opens Near World Trade Center,” Hyperallergic, September 25, 2023
Di Liscia, Valentina, “I Hate to Admit it, But I Loved the Armory Show,” Hyperallergic, September 8, 2023
Schwendener, Martha, “The Armory Show, in the Back-to-School Edition,” The New York Times, September 7, 2023
Shi, Yutong, “Jean Shin: We Are All Here,” ArtAsiaPacific, September 1, 2023
“Twelve large-scale installations to be displayed at the Armory Show’s 2023 Platform this September,” artdaily.com, August 14, 2023
Brock, Hovey, “Jean Shin the Alchemist: Turning Waste into Art,” Art Spiel, August 4, 2023
Donoghue, Katy, “Jean Shin is Generating Beauty from Waste,” Whitewall, July 13, 2023
”Reframing an Empire: Contemporary Artists Spotlight,” wmht, June 16, 2023
Richter, Ruthann, “A new, artistic perspective on plastic waste,” Scope, June 7, 2023
Mnookin, Sara James, “Jean Shin’s Art Just Keeps Evolving,” Women’s Wear Daily, May 30, 2023
Coyne, Lauren Levato, “Review: ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’ celebrates women artists of the Hudson River School with historical and contemporary works”, The Berkshire Eagle, May 12, 2023
Yakas, Ben, “Bringing the cosmos underground: celebrating public art created by women for the NYC subway”, Gothamist, March 30, 2023
Kimmelman, Michael, “As New York Weighs Library Cuts, Three New Branches Show Their Value”, The New York Times, March 10, 2023
“Brooklyn Heights Library unveils new illuminated gravity-defying sculpture”, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 6, 2023
Culgan, Rossilynne Skena, “Some of the city’s best art lives underground; find it with the new Pratt Transit Art Tour”, Time Out New York, February 22, 2023
Segalovich, Isabella, “Jean Shin Wants to Change the Tide of Pollution and Extinction”, Hyperallergic, September 18, 2022
Henderson, Jane, “Nature, environmental concerns inspire fall art exhibitions across St. Louis area”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 2022
Snelling, Grace, “Beetles and baseball collide in a new exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park”, St. Louis Magazine, September 8, 2022
Rapin, Katherine, “Art exhibit underscores mussels’ vital role in the Delaware River”, Delaware Currents, August 22, 2022
Crimmins, Peter, “Sculptural Fountain at Philly’s Cherry Street Pier is a 16’ glass bed of living mussels”, WHYY, June 20, 2022
Canning, Sue, “Everyday Matters: A Conversation with Jean Shin”, Sculpture Magazine, cover and pp. 46-59, January-February 2022
Rodney, Seph, “Mourning a tree that has lain down”, Hyperallergic, Oct 11, 2021
Sharp, Sarah Rose, “In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology”, Hyperallegic, Oct 5, 2021
Rosenfeld, Jason, “Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and Our Contemporary Moment”, The Brooklyn Rail, Sept 2021
Kapambwe, Mazuba, “Hudson Inspired: Artist Jean Shin Reimagines Fallen Trees”, HV Viewfinder, Scenic Hudson Magazine, June 2021
Mendelsohn, Meredith, “A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.” New York Times, May 4, 2021
Cascone, Sarah, “In the Kitchen: Artist Jean Shin Shares the Korean Dumpling Recipe That Embodies the Same No-Waste Philosophy as Her Art, Artnet News, March 28, 2021
Madrigal, Irene, “13 New Public Art Installation in NYC” Untapped New York July 2, 2021
Hilarie Sheets, “Art Blooms Alongside Nature in Riverside Park, In an exhibition that sprawls across nearly 100 blocks of park, 24 contemporary artists address literal, metaphoric and poetic ideas of regrowth, The New York Times, June 3, 2021
Cohen, Alina, “17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life”, Artsy, August 7, 2020
Santos, Dorothy, Jean Shin’s Latest Installation Showed the Environmental Impact of our Desire to Connect”, Art in America, May 4, 2020
Smith, Melissa, “Visions of the Future: 7 Things to Do This Weekend,” The New York Times, July 16, 2020
Mendelsohn, Meredith, “The T List: Five Things we Recommend this Week, The New York Times, Feb 6, 2020
Wong, Ryan, “A Sculpture Conjures the Secret Lives of Trees” Hyperallergic, May 28, 2019
Cascone, Sarah, Editor’s Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, Artnet, June 1, 2019
Sayej, Nadia, “10 Free Public art Installations on our Summer Bucket List,” Architectural Digest, April 26, 2019
Rockefeller, Hall, “When it Comes to Female Artists, the MTA Has a Better Track,” Hyperallergic, April 10, 2019
Yerebakan, Osman, “Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair”, Brooklyn Rail, Nov 1, 2018
“Jean Shin to create an artwork for SPU’s New North Transfer Station.” Seattle.gov, May 22, 2013.
Sculpture Magazine, Itinerary, December 2012
Asia Pacific Contemporary, November 2012
McQuaid, Cate. “Shin and Ripel’s ‘Retreat’ at deCordova takes visitors away.” The Boston Globe, Oct.13, 2012.
Tingley, Kim, “Tunneling Below Second Avenue”, The New York Times, August 1, 2012
Zimmer, Amy, "Second Ave Subway Public Art Commissions, Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Jean Shin," May 14, 2012
Halperin, Julia, “A Preview of the MTA's Ultra-Contemporary Public Art for New York City's Second Avenue Subway Line”, Artinfo.com, February 6, 2012
Goukassian, Elana, “Commissions” Sculpture Magazine, December 2011, pg 15
Maloney, Jennifer, “Subway Depths, Lit by Art,” The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2011
Castilleo, Alfonso, “Artists Get New Platform”, Newsday, October 23, 2011
Susan Hodara, “In a Former Bank, Money Still Talk,” New York Times, April 23, 2011
Moon, Inhee Iris, “Global Korean, Artist 12 & Curator 6: Jean Shin”, Art in Culture Magazine, Korea, January 2011
“Itinerary: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Jean Shin and Brian Ripel”, Sculpture Magazine, December 2010
Tanguy, Sarah, "Everyday Monuments: A Conversation with Jean Shin," Sculpture Magazine, April 2010
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Because Everyone Deserves a Trophy,” The New York Times, April 8, 2009
O'Sullivan, Michael, “Common Threads": A Celebration of Castoffs,” Washington Post, May 8, 2009
Dietsch, Deborah K., “Transforming the Everyday,” The Washington Times, May 3, 2009
Stamberg, Susan, “Jean Shin, Turning Trash Into Artistic Treasure,” Morning Edition,
NPR Radio interview, May 1, 2009
“Jean Shin: Common Threads,” WETA Around Town, Public television review, July 1, 2009
Joseph-Lowery, Frédérique, “Embroidery Goes Contemporary,” Art Press, vol. 352, January 2009
"Jean Shin with Natalie Angles," Residency Artist Interviews, Location One, NY, July 16, 2008
Yablonsky, Linda, "Hair Tapestry, Q-Tip Art Blend Kitsch, Sadism at New MAD Museum," Bloomberg.com, September 26, 2008
Jean Shin, Sound Wave, 2008, “Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a New Museum," Cover image of Weekend Arts section, New York Times, September 25, 2008
“Jean Shin," Goings on About Town: Art, The New Yorker, July 21, 2008
Lanza, Michael, “Metro Mosaics: Ancient Art Form Finds Life in Mass Transit,” Queens Tribune Online, July 10, 2008
Rapaport, Brooke Kamin, “Jean Shin's Accumulations of Ephemera,” Sculpture, vol. 27 no. 6, July/August 2008
Riggott, Julie, “Asian Art, by Way of Blondie,” Downtown LA Scene, February 26, 2008
Wood, Sura, “Young Asian American Artists Break Through,” Bay Area Reporter, October 4, 2007
Church, Amanda, “New York: Jean Shin”, Flash Art, September 2007
Baker, Kenneth, “Berkeley Art Museum show links artists seeking cultural definition,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2007
Taylor, Robert, “Artists with Asian Roots exhibit individualism”, Contra Costa Times, September 23, 2007
Hope, Bradley, “Pratt Presents Four Fresh Faces,” The New York Sun, June 14, 2007
Sheets, Hilarie, “Jean Shin at Frederieke Taylor,” ARTnews, May 2007
Li, Vivian, “Dislocating Asian American Art,” Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online, March 2007
Klassmeyer, Kelly, “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” Houston Press, March 15, 2006
Vali, Murtaza, “Jean Shin: TEXTile,” Art Asia Pacific, issue #52, March/April 2007
“Artists on Spirituality”, Art Asia Pacific, issue #51, Winter 2006
Chang, Alexandra, Art Review: Renegotiating Now and Then,” Asiance Magazine, November 2006
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