Curriculum Vitae
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Born in Seoul, South Korea; Raised in United States; Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2012
- Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: Retreat, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, curators Dina Deitsch and Lexi Lee Sullivan
- Jean Shin: Recall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- 2010
- Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: Unlocking, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, curator Cassandra Coblentz
- 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., curator Joanna Marsh
- 2008
- Jean Shin: And we move, Location One, New York City, curator Natalie Angles
- 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, curator Elizabeth Dunbar
- 2003
- Penumbra, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, New York City
- 1999
- 444, Apex Art, New York City, curator Susan Harris
Permanent Public Art Commissions
- 2014
- MTA, Arts for Transit Commission, 63rd Street Station, Second Ave Subway, New York City (upcoming)
- 2012
- Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)
- 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
- 2008
- Dress Code, US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Award, George Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, MD
Awards
- 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 & Pratt National Talent Search 1st Place
- 1990
- United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts (selected by White House Commissioners)
- National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts Award
FELLOWSHIPS and RESIDENCIES
- 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
- 1990-04
- Charles Pratt Scholar, Full Merit Scholarship & Pratt National Talent Search 1st Place, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
- 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 Group Exhibitions
- 2012
- Redux, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York City
- 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
- 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 Museum Contemporary 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
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.
Publications
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
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 On-line, 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
Patel, Vibhuti, “Insiders Looking Out,” Newsweek, International
Edition, October 2, 2006
Kunitz, Daniel, “Defying the Definitive,” New York Sun, September
14, 2006
Smith, Roberta, “A Mélange 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 Philadelphia 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 suggests 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
Kee, Joan, “Claim Check”, Tema Celeste, March/April 2003
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
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
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
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
Selected Public Commissions and Collections
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
The Percent for Art Program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
U.S. General Services Administration, Art in Architecture, Baltimore, MD
MTA, Arts for Transit, Queens, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Microsoft, WA
Citicorp, NY
Chase Bank, NY
Lehman Brothers, London
Cleveland Clinic, OH
Calvin Klein, Inc., NY
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
Selected Private Commissions and Collections
Peter Norton
Robert & Jereann Chaney
Driek Zirinsky
Peter and Kate Kend
Carol Schuster
Christos Giannikos
Pieter and Marieke Sanders
Frederieke Taylor
Marion Stroud
West Family Collection