Soo Shin
(b.1981, Seoul, Korea)
currently lives in Chicago, IL
Education
2011 MFA, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2007 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
2004 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Residencies/ Awards
2024 Artist in Residence, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
2022 Individual Artist Support—Project Grant 2022, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
2021 Artist in Residence, Arts and Industry_Foundry, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2018 Artist in Residence, Arts and Industry_Pottery, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2017 The Studios_artist studio program, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2016 Fellowship Award (full scholarship), Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015 Artist in Residence, ArtFarm, Marquette, NE
Summer Arts Faculty Residency Award, Ox-bow Artist in Residence, Saugatuck, MI
Breakout Artists 2015: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers, Newcity
2014 Vilcek Foundation Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Artists Residency, Peterborough, NH
2012 Honorarium, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapid, MI
2011 Honorarium, Chicago Union League Foundation of Civic and Arts, Chicago, IL
World Less Travel Grant: research/outdoor studio in Detroit, MI, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Finalist: Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation prize for emerging artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Visual Artists Competition 3rd Place award, Chicago Union League Foundation of Civic and Arts, Chicago, IL
Solo/ Two Person Exhibitions
2024 (forthcoming_Solo), The Luminary, St. Louise, MO
2022 We, Dandelions (Solo), Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 The Body of A Dreamer (Solo), Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Paths Between Two Steps (Solo), Goldfinch, Chicago, IL
2019 A Collection of Tears 2012-Present (Solo), Bar 4000, Chicago, IL
2017 The Finger Is Also Pressed By The Stone (Two person), Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Semblance (Two person), LVL 3, Chicago, IL
Awake, yet Asleep (Two person), Seerveld Gallery, Trinity College, Palos Heights, IL
2016 On the surface of Abyss (Solo), A-B Project, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2015 If Only A Glimpse (Two person), Outhaus, Urbana, IL
The Height Below (Two person), Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 A Matter of Degrees (Two person), Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL
2012 Weave Between the Two (Solo), Korean Cultural Museum, Wheeling, IL
2011 Emotional DIY (Solo), Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2010 Weaving as Relationship (Solo), Gallery Uno , Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Dialogues, Patron Gallery, IL
2022
Art Basel Miami_Patron Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Skin in the Game, curated by Zoe Lukov, Chicago, IL
2020
An Echo, She is, curated by Ruslana Litchzier, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL
NADA Chicago Gallery Open, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Field of Vision (110 anniversary benefit), Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
EXPO Chicago Exhibition Weekend, ‘Bluets’ curated by Stephanie Cristello and Ruslana Litchzier, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL
Four Flags 2020 Amsterdam, São Paulo, Bogotá, Chicago, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL
Into the Future (3rd benefit auction), Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
something blue (10 year Anniversary exhibition), LVL3, Chicago, IL
2019
Barely Fair, (LVL3), Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Between Land and Sky, curated by Nazafarin Lotfi, Everybody, Chicago, IL
Works on view, The Wing, Chicago, IL
Goldfinch Flatfiles, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Local Comfort, LVL3, Chicago, IL
The ANNUAL: Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, curated by Jordan Martins, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Pocket Object (traveling exhibition), @ Juicebox Gallery, Kansas City, MO / @ Tusk, Chicago, IL
Ltd. Wear3, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Latinx Nation, 18th Annual Auction, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
Employee Of The Month, curated by Olivia McManus and Alex Tam, South of the Tracks, Chicago, IL
Universal Love, 17th Annual Auction, Heaven gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
Ignoble in Between, Site Lab, Grand Rapids, MI
2015
Jupiter Island, curated by Lauren Rose Fulton, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Moonlight Sleeping on a Midnight Lake, curated by ADDS DONNA, MANA Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL
Modern Individuality, Highcross, Urbana, IL
Work, Werq, curated by Jacqueline Chao and Aram Han Sifuentes, Flats Studio, Chicago, IL
2014
Interfaith Biennial, O'Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
I am what I am doing, La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO
No fate but what we make, curated by Joel Parsons, Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2013
Best of Heaven Show, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
28th annual Tallahassee International, Museum of Fine Arts, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
What Goes Around, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Residuum, Scene Metrospace, Lansing, MI
Bound, juried by Cora Rosevear, Phoenix Gallery, New York. NY
2012
At That Very Moment(three person show), Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Utopia/Dystopia, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapid, MI
9th international juried exhibition,The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Asbury Park, NJ
Midway Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Evanston and Vicinity Biennial Juried by Shannon Stratton,Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Children of House of Love, Beige, Memphis, TN
INTERACTION, KCC gallery, Wheeling, IL
REFRESHING , NOYSE Art Center, Evanston, IL
15th International open juried by Linda Warren, womanmade gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Topophilia, Work*Detroit, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
New Work, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
WilsonWilliams Gallery(London), UK at the Venice Biennale: Afternoon Tea, Programme and the wider
Biennale Collateral Exhibition, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Readymade self: an homage to DuChamp, Bridge Gallery, Chicago, IL
SAIC MFA Thesis show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago,IL
INTIMACY, ARC gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Text off the page, the evening of response works. Sullivan gallery, Chicago, IL
ART LOOP OPEN , Metra-market, Chicago, IL
Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, NY
Materials of City, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Soft Confines, Turn-Berlin gallery, Berlin, Germany
Chicago Art Open, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL
Anatomy of Circle, Gallery x, Chicago, IL
2009
Reception exhibition for finalists, Chicago Union League club, Chicago, IL
Material Mixer, Tojo gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
Sculpture as Medicine, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
Bibliography & Lecture
2021 A Secret Desert in Chicago, written by Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Newcity
https://art.newcity.com/2021/03/03/a-secret-desert-in-chicago-a-review-of-soo-shin-at-patron-gallery/
2020 A Projection Into ‘Paths Between Two Steps’ by Soo Shin, written by Amanda Dee, Sixty Inches From Center,
http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-projection-into-paths-between-two-steps-by-soo-shin/
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Sophomore Seminar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 Artist Lecture, Trinity College, Palos Heights, IL
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2015 Artist interview, INSIDE/WITHIN, http://insidewithin.com/soo-shin/
Artist of the week, LVL3 Media, http://lvl3media.com/artist-of-the-week-soo-shin/#.VlccudBhif8
'Authority, Affirmation and Other Nomenclature' by Matt Morris, Newcity
2014 Visiting Artist lecture, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 Featured Artist 2013 April, Peripheral Arteries magazine
Visiting Artist lecture, Advanced Weaving, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 Visiting Artist lecture, Korean-American Students Organization, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010 Noon hour lecture, Fiber and Material Studies Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Exhibition review 'Emotional DIY' by Michael Bonesteel, Pioneer Local
Exhibition preview 'Salvaging Emotions' by Judy Moore, The Daily Northwestern
2009 Artist Turns Found Material into DIY, Chicago Suntimes
Spring featured emerging artist, Visual Overture magazine
Noon hour lecture, Fiber and Material Studies Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL