Kyungmi Shin

Through layering on top of photographs with painting that creates opacity and transparency, I was creating narratives that allude to the complicated stories of the cultural identity, immigration, colonization, and the global economy that drives these movements.

— Kyungmi Shin

Kyungmi Shin is a visual artist working with painting, sculpture, and photography. Shin received an MFA from UC Berkeley, CA (1995). Working with painting, sculpture, and photography, Shin explores various histories, identities and migrations by interrogating colonial, capitalist and religious global expansion and its effect.

Shin has presented works at Orange County Museum of Art, CA; The Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Japanese American National Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Torrance Art Museum, CA. Shin has received numerous grants including California Community Foundation Grant, Durfee Grant, Pasadena City Individual Artist Fellowship and Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Grants. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA. She has completed over 20 public artworks, and her most recent public video sculpture was installed at the Netflix headquarters in Hollywood, CA (2018).

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Born in Busan, South Korea in 1963

Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Education

1995	MFA, Sculpture & Installation, University of California, Berkeley, USA
1991	Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1986	BS, Biochemistry, San Jose State University, USA
1983	Kyungbook National University Medical School, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2021	Various Small Fires, ‘citizen, not barbarian’, Los Angeles, CA
2020	Orange County Museum of Art, ‘Father Crosses the Ocean’, Santa Ana, CA
2010	See Line Gallery, ‘Spirit Shack’, Los Angeles, CA
2009	Nichols Gallery, ‘Melancholy of Chaos’, Pitzer College, Pomona, CA
	Sweeney Art Gallery, ‘Project Room Installation’, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
2008	18th Street Project, ‘Rich’, solo installation curated by Tyler Stallings, Los Angeles, CA
	LAX Airport, ‘Blue’, Terminal 3, 200ft wall installation, Los Angeles, CA
	7th&Figueroa, Brookfield Properties, ‘Many Waters’, Los Angeles, CA
2006	Winslow Garage, ‘Chewing Gums and Candy’, Echo Park, CA
2004	Pasadena Public Library, ‘Kyungmi Shin’, Pasadena, CA
	Pasadena City College Library, ‘Blue Eyes: Kyungmi Shin’, Pasadena, CA

Group Exhibitions

2022	Galerie Marguo, ‘The Hearing Trumpet, Part II’, curated by Danielle Shang, Paris, France
	Barbati Gallery, ‘Imperfect Paradise’, curated by Michele Barbati, Venice, Italy
2021	J. P. Getty Museum, ‘Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A.’, curated by Jill Moniz, CA
	Charlie James Gallery, ‘Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla’, Los Angeles, CA
2020	Art Center Gallery, ‘Pseudo Mythologies’, Los Angeles, CA
2019	Quotidian Gallery, ‘Four Women’, Los Angeles, CA
2018	Roberts Projects, ‘Holding Up 1/2 the Sky’, Culver City, CA
2017	Fellows of Contemporary Art Gallery, ‘Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities’, Los Angeles, CA
	ESXLA at the Brewery, ‘Echo Location’, Los Angeles, CA
2016	ART LABOR gallery, ‘Teleportation’, Shanghai, China
2015	Stuart Haaga Gallery, Desconso Gardens, ‘Oasis’, curated by John O’Brien, La Canada Flintridge, CA