Born in Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in 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


AWARDS and HONORS
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 General Services Administration Commission Award George H. Fallon Federal Building, Baltimore, Maryland
2003 New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship Award in Sculpture The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award Asian Cultural Council Fellowship
1990-4 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


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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, curated by Janet Riker
2004 Projects 81: Jean Shin, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, curated by 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 444, Apex Art, New York City, curated by Susan Harris


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 
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)
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
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 curated by 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

2002
Nature of the Beast, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York City
Multitude, Artists Space, New York City, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
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, curated by Laura Lobdell
Microwave, Three, 123 Watts Gallery, New York City, curated by Josee Bienvenue
Out of Line & Over the Top, P.S. 122 Gallery, NYC, curated by 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, curated by 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
Six Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, curated by 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, selected by Paige West
Apartment #3F, Asian American Arts Centre, New York City
Meat Market Art Fair, New York City
Line, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curated by Debbie Hesse
Wide Open, Gretel’s File, Zurich, Switzerland

1999
Black and White, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Macy Gallery, Columbia University, NYC

1998
New Visions ’98: Under Construction, GEN ART, New York City, curated by Debra Singer

1990
Presidential Scholars in the Visual Arts, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. (1 of 6 artists selected by The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars)


ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2003-06 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2004-05 Dieu Donne Papermill, Studio Workshop Residency, New York City
Lower East Side Printshop, Special Editions Fellow, New York City
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
1991 Vermont Studio Center, VT


TEACHING POSITIONS
2006-present Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, Fine Arts Department Fine Arts Seminar and Senior Sculpture Class

2006 Visiting Artist, New York University, Graduate Fine Arts Program

2002-2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, School of Art & Design, Brooklyn, NY
Foundation Department, General and Figure Drawing; Light, Color & Design

1998-2002 Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, School of Art & Design, Brooklyn, NY Foundation Department, General and Figure Drawing Courses

1998-2002 Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, School of Continuing & Professional Studies Pre-College Program, Foundation Drawing, Light & Color and 3-D Design, Art History

2000-2002 Instructor, Collage & Mixed Media class for all levels Art Center at the 92nd Street Y, NYC

2001-2002 Education Advisor, Liquitex/ColArt Americas, Inc. Provide workshops at various college & university art departments


ARTIST LECTURES, VISITING ARTIST, PANELS
2006
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Asia Society and Museum, NYC
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia University, NYC
New York University, NYC
Rhode Island School of Art, NYC
College of New Rochelle, NY
Nightingale-Bamford School, NYC
Textile Study Group, NYC 

2005
Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art Council, NY
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Parson’s School of Art and Design, NYC
The New School, Visual and Performing Arts, NYC
State University New York at New Paltz, NY
Artists Space, NYC
Sculpture Center, LIC, NY Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY
International Print Center New York, NY
Lower Eastside Printshop, NYC
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
New York State Workshop Consortium, NYC

2004
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Ulrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Wichita, KS
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Selection Panel, Asian American Arts Center, NYC
Hunter College, MFA program, NYC
New York Studio Program, NYC

2001-2004
Visual Artist Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC

2002-2003
Advisory Panel, Art in General, NYC

2002
Guggenheim Museum’s Young Collections Council, NYC
Artists Space, NYC
Ssamzie Space, Seoul Korea
Korea National University of the Arts, Seoul Korea
Seoul University, School of Architecture, Seoul Korea
Mokwon University, College of Art, School of Design, Taejon, S. Korea
Art in General, NYC
Skowhegan’s Century Committee, NYC
The Rotunda Gallery, NYC
The Brooklyn Historical Society, NYC


PUBLICATIONS
Jean Shin: Travel Journal, Museum of Modern Art, Ford Family Activity Guide, New York, 2006
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, 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 JEAN SHIN page 5 SELECTED


BIBLIOGRAPHY/ REVIEWS
Smith, Roberta, “A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities,” New York Times, September 8, 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
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
Museum of Modern Art. NY
Chase Bank, NY
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
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


Selected Private Commissions and Collections
Peter Norton
Robert & Jereann Chaney
Driek Zirinsky
Carol Schuster
Christos Giannikos
Pieter and Marieke Sanders
Frederieke Taylor
Marion Stroud
West Family Collection
Fabric Workshop and Museum

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