Jean Shin is a Brooklyn-based artist who creates elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations that suggest imaginary communities through the use of accumulated cast-offs. Mary Ceruti, director of Sculpture Center writes, “Jean Shin uses discarded material (the excess, the forgotten, the no longer useful) in works that operate between abstraction and representation. Made from the remnants of contemporary urban life, Shin’s sculptures form a sort of visual history and a social mapping."
Her installations have been widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, and Fabric Workshop. She has received numerous awards including Pollock-Krasner Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Art Award, NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture.
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