Reviews
“Our increasing dependence on digital forms of connection has a price, of course, resulting in, for instance, vast amounts of electronic waste. Jean Shin made this reality strikingly visible in “Pause” (2020), an installation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco for which she turned thousands of discarded phones, laptops, hard drives, and cables into a sculptural landscape.”
— Dorothy R. Santos, Art in America
By Seph Rodney
By Grace Ebert
By Alina Cohen
By Ryan Wong
By Olivia Jia
By 6 ABC
By A.D. Amorosi
By Cate McQuaid
“Jean Shin emphasizes that mass produced objects are imbued with meaning through use, and by accumulating and altering these objects, she makes portraits of the communities that use them. For her, representation requires grounding in authentic material. Shin is a master of simple gestures poignantly enacted; her work contains no unnecessary verbiage.”
— Olivia Jia, Hyperallergic
By Murtaza Vali
By Susan Harris
By Gregory Volk
'“Jean Shin has earned a reputation for her transformative installations that imbue castoffs of our consumerist society with a new vitality. ... Here, as in much of her work, Shin brings together disparate histories in order to set new ones in motion”.
— Susan Harris, Art in America
By Eugenie Tsai
By Sarah Boxer
By Joan Kee
By Louis Bury