Kyungmi Shin is a visual artist working with painting, sculpture, and photography. She received MFA from UC Berkeley in 1995. Her works have been exhibited at Berkeley Art Museum, Sonje Art Museum (Korea), Japanese American National Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), and Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), and have received numerous grants including California Community Foundation Grant, Durfee Grant, Pasadena City Individual Artist Fellowship and LA Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence Grants. She has completed over 20 public artworks, and her most recent public video sculpture was installed at the Netflix headquarters in Hollywood, CA in 2018.
My installation works since 2005 have been influenced tremendously by my experiences of spending time and building a studio home in Ghana, West Africa. What began as a naive adventure fantasizing about an affordable vacation home in a tropical landscape turned into a study of my own fear, guilt and prejudice as well as a lesson in the relationship between the developed and underdeveloped parts of this world. I began to shift the focus of my artworks from investigation of perception and personal identity to that of the effects of global economic connections. Since 2007, I have been creating photo collages, video, and sculptural installations that investigate the global connection by looking at the rituals, myths, and the physical evidence of the inter-connectedness between the developed and underdeveloped nations and the effects of globalization. In my recent series of artworks for my solo exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art, Father Crosses the Ocean, I am again investigating this global connection from the personal perspective through looking at my father’s life.
My public art practice is a practice of constantly listening to and learning from the site, community, history and nature of the location. Thorough the research on the natural and cultural history as well as the current context of the site, I strive to create artworks that brings meaning to the site and engage the public’s imagination.
- Kyungmi Shin
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GALLERY: VSF.la | 812 North Highland Avenue, LA, CA 90038 +1 310 426 8040 | Tuesday - Saturday 10AM - 6PM
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EDUCATION
1995 M.F.A., Sculpture & Installation, University of California, Berkeley
1991 Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1986 B.S., Biochemistry, San Jose State University
1983 Kyungbook National University Medical School, South Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Various Small Fires, Seoul, South Korea
2021 citizen not barbarian, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Father Crosses the Ocean, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
2010 Spirit Shack, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Melancholy of Chaos, Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College, Pomona, CA
Project Room Installation, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
2008 Rich, Solo installation, 18th Street Project, curated by Tyler Stallings, LA, CA
Blue, LAX Airport, Terminal 3, 200ft wall installation, Los Angeles, CA
Many Waters, 7th&Figueroa, Brookfield Properties, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Kyungmi Shin, Winslow Garage, Echo Park, CA
2004 Chewing Gums and Candy, Pasadena Public Library, One Person Installation, Pasadena, CA
Blue Eyes: Kyungmi Shin, Pasadena City College Library, Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Imperfect Paradise, curated by Michele Barbati, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy
2022 Get Back/Get Out, performance organized by Ei Arakawa, Rena Spauldings Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Wonder Women: Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch, curated by Kathy Huang, Los Angeles, CA
The Hearing Trumpet, Marguo Gallery, curated by Danielle Shang, Paris, France
2021 Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A., J. P. Getty Museum, curated by jill moniz, Los Angeles, CA
Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Pseudo Mythologies, Art Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Four Women, Quotidian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Holding Up 1/2 the Sky, Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
2017 Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities, Fellows of Contemporary Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Echo Location, ESXLA at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Teleportation, ART LABOR gallery, Shanghai, CN
2015 Oasis, Stuart Haaga Gallery, Desconso Gardens, curated by John O’Brien, La Canada Flintridge, CA
2014 Inside the Quad, Ben Meltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
Racial Imagery, Pitzer College Art galleries, curated by Ciara Ennis, Claremont, CA
2013 Narrative Space, Venice Art Center, curated by Meg Madison & Gregory Walker, Venice, CA
2011 California Contemporary, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
2009 OZ, Guadalajara Regional Museum of Art, curated by Mark Greenfield, Guadalajara, MX
Not Los Angeles, FOCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Building Paradise, 7+FIG Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
The Brewery Capstone, The Armory Art Center, Pasadena, CA
2008 Twenty Years Ago Today, Japanese American National Museum, curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles, CA
Projections on Lake, screening, curated by David Bradshaw, Pasadena, CA
The Long Weekend, Phantom Gallery, curated by Joe Santaromana & Nancy Buchanan, Pasadena, CA
PIX, Torrance Art Museum, curated by Kristina Newhouse, Torrance, CA
2007 Kunstkammer, Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Stephanie Cannizzo, Berkeley, CA
Txt Me L8r, Houston Center for Photography, curated by Ebony Potter, Houston, TX
Pillow Talk, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, curated by Mery Lynn McCorkle, Los Angeles, CA
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, P/A/P Institute Gallery, New York University, curated by Yongsoon Min, New York, NY
Drawing Residency, Torrance Art Museum, curated by Marcy Freedman, Torrance, CA
2006 Photography, Palos Verdes Art Center, curated by Scott Canty & Phil Lohmann, Palos Verdes, CA
Photodisruption, Kristi Engles Gallery, curated by Meg Madison & Kristi Engles, LA, CA
Watermark, Arena Gallery, curated by Angela Diamos, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Passerby, Vox Populi, curated by Cassandra Coblentz, Philadelphia, PA
20Scene05, Korean American Museum, curated by Yongsoon Min and Susan Choi, catalogue essay by Malik Gaines, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Whiteness, Virginia University Art Museum, Charllotesville, VA
Digital, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Optic Nerves, Scott White Gallery, San Diego, CA
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2003 Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, curated by Tyler Stallings, Laguna Beach, CA
Festival Forfest Kromeriz, curated by Louise Lewis, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, CZ
Pink Sisters, Art Church, performances organized by Todd Gray, Los Angeles, CA
Shouts, Whispers and Cheers, Saint Mary’ College Art Gallery, curated by Irina Costache, Los Angeles, CA
2002 West Coast, Art Affairs, curated by Carl Berg, Amsterdam, NL
LA/ Amsterdam, Kausaustralis, curated by Carl Berg, Rotterdam, NL
MEDIA, At the Brewery Project, curated by Joe Santarommano, Los Angeles, CA
The Game, Korean Cultural Center, curated by Christine Kim, Los Angeles, CA
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
I-Camera, I-1 Gallery, curated by Dimitri, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Biennial, Cal State Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Beauty of Diversity: Young Korean Diaspora, Seoul Arts Center, curated by Sung Moon Cho, Seoul, KOR
2001 Saturation, At the Brewery Project, curated by Kyungmi Shin and Ryan Hill, Los Angeles, CA
JP Getty Museum, Harold Williams Auditorium, California Community Foundation
Grant Award Reception and Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
LA-CA, Newspace, curated by Dimitri Vorvolakos, Los Angeles, CA
The Mural Show, Irvine Art Center, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA
On s'en fout!, Gallery 207, West Hollywood, CA
2000 Carpooling from LA, Asian American Art Center curated by Tam Tran, New York, NY
The Cake Show, Pasadena City College, curated by Jeoffrey Allen, Pasadena, CA
Koreamericakorea, Artsonje Museum, curated by David Ross of San Francisco Museum of Art, Kyungjoo, KOR
Koreamericakorea, Artsonje Center, curated by David Ross, Seoul, KOR
Democratic National Convention Committee Show, curated by Davis and Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Spiritual Practices: Rituals, Icons and Faiths, KHEIR CENTER/ Korean American Museum, curated by Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Daydreaming, George’s, curated by Leonard Bravo, Los Angeles, CA
My First Work: Origins and Experiments, curated by Alex Kritsellis, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1998 Thrills and Spiels, Phillip and Dorothy Lyon Gallery, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, organized by Carrie Ungerman, Los Angeles, CA
Getty Underground, JP Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
License, Hollywood DMV, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Brent Zerger, Los Angeles, CA
While U Wait, Hollywood DMV, Los Angeles, CA
One Night Stand, Farmer's Daughter Motel, curated by Leonard Bravo, Los Angeles, CA
One Night Stand, Abel Joseph Gallery, curated by Leonard Bravo, Brussels, BE
1997 Prop, Korean Cultural Center, curated by Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles, CA
One Night Stand, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, curated by Leonard Bravo, Los Angeles, CA
Watts Towers Arts Center, 1997 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Scene 97, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Thinking of Oscar Wilde, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Introductions, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
University Art Museum, MFA Thesis Exhibit, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
LO-CAL, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Hide and Seek, White Room, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1994 Measuring Up, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Pretty Little Thing, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
Inquiries, Luggage Store Gallery, curated by Eungie Joo, San Francisco, CA
KITTY KLUB, Nexus Gallery, performance organized by Kevin Radley, Berkeley, CA
SOMAR Gallery, Asian American Women Artists’ Association, Anniversary Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
Light, Sound, Spoken Word, Performance Night, Basement Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
One Person Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA.
COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
J P Getty Museum, CA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
Allison Berg Collection
Vickie & Seth Koogan Collection
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2022 Intuit Dome Clippers Stadium, Inglewood, CA
2019 Vietnamese American Services Center, San Jose, CA
2016 Bronson Studios ICON Netflix Building, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Chinatown St. Mary’s Park, San Francisco, CA
El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station, El Cerrito, CA
2015 Metro Green Line Extension Stations, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Brookland Middle School, Washington D.C.
Ocean & Beach Street Improvement Project, Laguna Beach, CA
2013 Chicago CTA, Redline, Granville Station, Chicago, IL
Baldwin Hills Scenic Overview Project, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Pasadena Sierra Madre Corridor Project, Pasadena, CA
District Square Shopping Center, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Garfield High School Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
Lennox Constituent Service Center and Library, Los Angeles, CA
Midtown Crossing Shopping Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Beach Entrance Improvement Project, Redondo Beach, CA
Norfolk State University Station, Light rail, Norfolk, VA
2009 Hope Street Family Center, Los Angeles, CA
Downtown Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
Omnitrans Stations, City of San Bernardino, CA
California Community Foundation Artwork Commission, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Metro Neighborhood Poster Project/ Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA,
Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 3, Temporary Installation at the Baggage Claim
2006 Washington Blvd Improvement Project, Culver City Cultural Affairs, CA
2005 La Fayette Park Gymnasium & Community Center, City of Los Angeles, CA
