Meekyoung Shin

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Ceramics & Glass, 2017

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  +44 (0)7879 013475
  http://www.meekyoungshin.com
  http://www.writteninsoap.com
  http://www.facebook.com/meekyoung.shin.3

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• Meekyoung Shin is a sculptor who celebrated for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when objects of distinct cultural and historical specificity are dislocated. Made from soap, her work replicate artefacts and canonical works of art, from Asian porcelain vases to Greek and Roman sculptures, translating between continents, cultures and centuries in the process. Shin is recognized for her iconic Translation Series and Toilet Series, installations of soap sculptures in public bathrooms for use, which are subsequently exhibited in the gallery context in their eroded form. Written in Soap is the artist's largest public art project to date and is currently on show in London, Seoul, and Taipei. Since 2015, Shin start to study Ceramic and Glass in RCA to reaserching to developed scultural language in Clay

  
  

• Degrees

• MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, 1998; MA Sculpture in Fine Art, Seoul National University, 1993,; BA Sculpture in Fine Art, Seoul National University, 1990

• Exhibitions

• Korea Contemporary Ceramic, Victoria Albert Museum, London 2017; Meekyoung Shin Solo Show-Cabinet of Curiosities, Hakgojae Shanghai 2016; La Terre Le Feu L’esprit, Grand Palais, Paris 2016; Ceramique Contemporaine Coreenne, Bernardaud Foundation, Limoges. 2016; Please return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway 2016; As the moon waxes and wanes, MMCA Gwacheon 30 years 1986-2016, MMCA, Gwacheon 2016; Club Monster, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; Made in China: An imperial Ming Vase, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 2014; A Cabinet of Curiosities: Meekyoung Shin, The National Centre of Craft & Design, Lincoln 2014

• Awards

• 2017 Korea Art Council Fund, Arko, Seoul; 2015 Prudential Eye Award, Best Emerging Artist Using Sculpture; 2015 Reserch & Development Fund, Art Council England, London; 2012 GFA, Art Council England, London

• Conferences

• Korean Contemporary Art International Conference: Between Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation, Courtauld Institute of Art, 29,30 June 2012

• Publications

• Meekyoung Shin, Anomie Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9576936-5-4, 2013; Meekyoung Shin, Hakgojae Publishing Co.LTD, ISBN 978-89-5625-333-6 96620, 2016