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Jean Shin: The Museum Body
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
July 13, 2024 - June 2025
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces Jean Shin as the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first-floor sloping gallery—the space linking the Carter’s original 1961 building and the 2001 expansion—with a site-specific commission on view from July 13, 2024, through June 2025. For her installation at the Carter, titled Jean Shin: The Museum Body, Shin seeks to create a textile-based “portrait” of the Museum’s staff, both those visible and invisible to the general public, who enable a museum to function. The installation will consist of donated garments representing the collective work of the people within the institution. Separating the fabric from its seams, Shin will shape these elements into a large-scale wall mural with immersive hanging elements that will activate the gallery walls and ceiling. The clothing will be collected from members of the Carter’s staff—including curators, conservators, educators, executive leadership, facilities staff, and more—and then deconstructed, re-assembled, and installed with a focus on adapting to the unique architecture of the space. The democratization of the collected garments invokes the breakdown of institutional hierarchies.
Currently on view
The Trustees, Appleton Farms, Hamilton & Ipswich
April 22, 2024 - October 1, 2024
With Appleton Farms’ storied history and current ecological and agricultural activities, Jean Shin’s Perch will explore temporality (ecological and agricultural time) and regeneration. At Appleton, bobolinks—songbirds who make the long migratory journey from the southern hemisphere and whose populations are in decline—are the primary birds that use the grasslands and hayfields as their nesting site.
Marking sites where the Trustees’ ecology team monitors the bobolink population, Shin will create sculptural platforms made from fallen and dead trees found throughout Appleton that visitors can engage with, as they ultimately become participants in this critical monitoring throughout the project’s run. Within the nesting area, Shin will create sculptural perches made from fallen trees and salvaged copper in which male bobolinks can perch to search for mates and mark their territory.
Moreover, Jean Shin’s Perch will integrate into the landscape and support the agroecological work at the farm and is intended to visualize, amplify, and raise awareness around this critical species and its habitat as well as the important endeavors at Appleton Farms.way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
More on the project in this video.
Artist Walk with Jean Shin and Curator Jessica Hong at Appleton Farms, May 19 1:30pm REGISTER HERE
PRESS: WBUR: An Eco-Art Installation That’s for the Birds - Literally
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Jean Shin: Second Skin
Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, MA
June 16-July 23, 2023
Widely recognized for her large-scale installations and sculptures, Jean Shin's artist practice is rooted in the rethinking of materials, specifically those that have been discarded at mass scale. As she told the New York Times in a 2009 interview, her criteria for materials is often something that is “cast off from a person’s life because its desirability and usefulness are questioned, that it in some way archives a personal history but also can speak to larger issues going on in our culture.” Second Skin is composed of materials used prominently in recent public art commissions, giving them another life in the realm of artistic expression. This exhibition demonstrates the possibilities of translating monumental public art works into intimate indoor experiences by building on the materials' history and finding common ecological narratives in the new works.
OPENING RECEPTION
June 16, 2023 6-8 PM
Conversation with Jean Shin and Curator Eva Respini
June 28, 7 PM on Zoom
Register here
PRESS:
WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY: Jean Shin’s Art Just Keeps Evolving
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
September 10 – December 11, 2022 / South Lawn
Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence
Site-responsive installation Home Base figures an alternate baseball diamond, one where a salvaged stump of a dead ash tree from Laumeier Sculpture Park is fashioned into the shape and size of a home plate. First, second, and third bases are reimagined as sculptural seats or benches created from the same ash tree and blemished bats donated by Rawlings, the sports manufacturer who supplies baseball bats to the St. Louis Cardinals. The artist endeavors to foreground the connection between nature and culture, specifically between a nationally treasured game and our beautiful forests.
Living Laboratory on Cherry Street Pier celebrating Freshwater Mussels,
Showcasing their impact on clean water alongside Delaware River
ARTIST’S TALK and Tour—Jean Shin's Artist Practice
October 20, 2022, 6-7pm Free Registration
Fringe Arts, 140 N Christopher Columbus Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19106
Jean Shin speaks to her artistic practice and inspiration and the complex relationship to our surroundings conceptualized in Freshwater.
PRESS:
HYPERALLERGIC: Jean Shin Wants to Change the Tide of Pollution and Extinction
NPR: Sculptural fountain at Philly’s Cherry Street Pier is a 16’ glass bed of living mussels
DELAWARE CURRENTS: Art exhibit underscores mussels’ vital role in the Delaware River
Jean Shin: Fallen
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY
May 2-October 31, 2021
Extended through December 18th for Solstice public programs.
This commission is part of the exhibition Cross Pollination. The exhibition was created by The Olana Partnership at Olana State Historic Site, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
The artists featured in the exhibition are Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Emily Cole, Isabel Charlotte Church, Rachel Berwick, Nick Cave, Mark Dion, Richard Estes, Juan Fontanive, Jeffrey Gibson, Paula Hayes, Patrick Jacobs, Maya Lin, Flora C. Mace, Vik Muniz, Portia Munson, Lisa Sanditz, Sayler/Morris, Dana Sherwood, Jean Shin, Rachel Sussman, and Jeff Whetstone.
Video Recording: In conversation with Artist Jean Shin, Amy Hausmann and Mark Prezorski
Joe Donahue Interview on WAMC, Public Radio’s The Round Table:
Jean Shin's "Fallen" at Olana, May 13, 2021
Mazuba Kapambwe, “Hudson Inspired: Artist Jean Shin Reimagines Fallen Trees,” HV Viewfinder, Scenic Hudson
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Jean Shin: Pause
Asian Art Musuem, San Francisco, CA
February 6-November 29, 2020
Curated by Marc Mayer
Video Interview with the artist
Conversation with the artist and Curator Marc Mayer
Jean Shin: Floating MAiZE
Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, New York, NY
Co-presented with LMCC New York, NY
July 13-September 18, 2020
Curated by Kendal Henry
Video Interview with the artist by Curator Kendal Henry
Jean Shin: Allée Gathering
Storm King Art Center, Hudson Valley, NY
May 4-November 24, 2019
Curated by Nora Lawrence
Video Interview with artist and Curator Nora Lawrence
Jean Shin: Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
March 24-July 15, 2018
Curated by Hyunsoo Woo
Jean Shin: MAiZE
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, AL
October 6, 2017-January 8, 2018
Jean Shin: MetaCloud
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
June 11-September 10, 2017
Jean Shin: Surface Tension
Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
February 25-April 2, 2016
Jean Shin: Domesticated Landscapes
Mark Moore Fine Art, Orange, CA
February 19-March 21, 2015
Jean Shin: Celadon Landscape
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
May 16-December 31, 2015
Curated by Karin Oen