Artist Talk: Soo Shin

Join us for an engaging artist talk with Soo Shin as we mark the closing of (An) Anthology of the Ocean. This conversation will explore the layered processes, personal narratives, and conceptual inquiries that shape Shin’s practice, with a special focus on her contributions to this exhibition. Her work reflects themes of distance, memory, and the body's relationship to materiality, inviting audiences to consider fluidity and transformation in both form and meaning.

Soo Shin (b.1981, Seoul) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She is the recipient of the fellowship at Djerassi Artist Residency, Woodside, CA; the individual artist grant at the Illinois Arts Council; and the Vilcek foundation fellowship at MacDowell artist residency. Shin’s work has been presented at Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL; Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL; Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL; LVL3, Chicago, IL; and Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL among others. She has completed residences at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Vermont Studio Center; Art Farm, Marquette, NE; and Ox-box, Saugatuck, MI. She earned a Master in Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Master in Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

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