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CIGE Beijing 2015


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Translation Series, 36x24x24cm, soap, pigment, varnish and wooden crate, 2009
SHIN MeeKyoung (1967~)

Meekyoung Shin who is working in Seoul and London, uses ‘soap’ as a main material to aim unique reinterpretation of her work. In a specific image of ceramics and Buddhas, the work embodies her “translation” of the various religious, historical, and cultural issues that she experiences as an Asian artist in the 21st century. Her reinterpretation is then “translated” by viewers of a distinct religious, historical, and cultural context in which they live and experience. With such everyday material as soap, Shin’s work deals with penetration between civilizations, transference, questions of originality, copy, and replication.
Shin’s soap sculptures take the same forms of the original sculptures, but possess the completely different historical and cultural contents and present the new contexts. In Translation-Vase, the artist represents a Chinese decorative ceramic, sculpting it from a block of soap, making incisions, filling in, and painting them. The artifacts created by the artist, as they move between Korea, China, and Britain, encounter audiences and are understood in different ways depending on their cultural backgrounds and levels of comprehension. Artifacts are functional things which were used by people but, after their cultural values were discovered and moved into museums, have become untouchable objects. Shin is interested in the temporal pause that takes place in this process. Her Translation-Toilet Project consists of soap Buddha statues that were used by audiences in the toilet and then brought back into the gallery; at this point, the process of “artifactization” stops. The soap statues in the toilet stimulate functionality, decorativeness, and audience participation. At the same time, they generate their own provenance and are to be understood in divergent patterns according to each culture, religion, or gender.


​Education
1998 
M.F.A. Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art in University College London, London
1993 
M.A. Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul
1990  
B.A. Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul
 
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2015
Painting Series, Hada Contemporary, London
2014   
Made in China: An imperial Ming Vase, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
A Cabinet of Curiosities, The National Centre of Craft & Design, Lincoln
A Cabinet of Curiosities: Meekyoung Shin at Belton House, Belton House
Toilet project @ Sketch, Sketch, London
2013   
Written in Soap: A Plinth Project, Taipei MOCA
Unfixed: A solo exhibition by Meekyoung Shin, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London
Translation: The Epic Archive, 2013 Korea Artist Prize, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon
2012
In between Translation, MOT/Arts, Taipei
Written in Soap: A Plinth Project, Cavendish Square, London
2011   
Translation, Art Club 1563, Seoul
Translation, Haunch of Venison Gallery, London
2009   
Translation, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Translation, Lefebvre & Fils Gallery, Paris
2008   
Translation, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
2007   
Translation, Mongin Art Centre, Seoul
Translation – Moon Jar, Korean Gallery, British Museum, London
2004   
Performance & Show, British Museum, London
2002   
Translation, Tokyo Humanité Gallery, Tokyo  
Translation, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
1995   
Shell, Namu Gallery, Seoul
1994   
Meekyoung Shin, Seokyoung Gallery, Seoul
 
Selected Exhibitions
2015
Probebühne 7, Museen Dahlem, Berlin
How to construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Prudential Eye Awards, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2013    
Art for not making, Summaria Lunn Gallery, London
Glasstress 2013 White Light/ White heat, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Venice
Couriers of Taste, Dason House, Bexley Heritage Trust
DNA, Daegue City Museum, Daegue
2012    
Fabricated Object, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
Recasting the Gods, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Diverse Spectrum: 600 years of Korean Ceramics, MASP, San     Paulo
Synopticon-Contemporary Chinoiserie, Plymouth Museum/Saltram House, Plymouth
Material and Energy, Korean Eye, Abu Dhabi
Ceramic Commune, Art Sonje, Seoul
Material Matter, East Wing X, Courtauld Institute, London
As Small As a World and Large as Alone, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
2011   
Material and Energy; Korean Eye, Museum of Art and Design, New York
NyLon, Korea Culture Centre London/Korea Culture Service New York
Poetry of in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung         Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco
Art to Wear, Plateau Museum, Seoul
Mr. Rabbit in Art World, Gyounggi Art Museum, Ansan
TRA: Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
TEFAF, Maastricht
Convergence, OCI Museum, Seoul
38°N Snow South: Korean Contemporary Art, Charlotte Lund Gallery,    Stockholm
2010   
Memories from the Past, LEEUM, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Fantastic Ordinary, Saatchi Gallery, London
Present from the Past, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London
Moon is the Oldest Clock, National Museum of Art, Deoksugung, Seoul
The Alchemists, Edel Assanti Project Space, London
2009    
Art & Synesthesia, Seoul City Museum, Seoul
2008   
Art n Play, Hangaram Museum, Seoul
Nanging Triennale, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
Art in Action, Waterparry House, Oxfordshire
Meme Trackers, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing
Good Morning, Mr. Namjun Paik, Korea Cultural Centre in London
Awardees, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2007   
Beauty, Desire and Evanescence, Space DA, Beijing
Soft Power, Korea Foundation, W Hotel
Particules Libres, nouvelle génération d’artistes Coréens en Europe, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2006 
Looking through Glass, Asia House, London
Softness, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
On, Cover Up, London
Wunderkammer-Artificial Kingdom, Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire
2005  
Twenty One: New Work by Student, Slade School of Fine Art
Telltale, Museum of E-wha University, Seoul
2004  
Gwang-ju Biennale-Korea Express, Gwang-ju
Do Again!, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2003  
Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul
2002  
Eleven & Eleven-Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002, Sungkok Art Museum
2001  
Alchemy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
Detached House, British Embassy, Seoul
The 5th Moran Sculpture Grand Prix, Moran Museum of Art, Masuk
The 5th Galerie BHAK Contest of the Young & Remarkable Artist, Galerie BHAK, Seoul
Soft Outside/Solid Inside-Softness Crossing Over Solidness, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul
1999  
Fin de Siecle, Riverside Studios Gallery, London
1998 
Addressing the Century-100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London
Summer Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1997 
Korean Young Artist in London, Sacvill Gallery, London
All Changes, Harvey Nichols Department Store (Show Window), London
1994 
The Korean Variation and Aim, Seokyoung Gallery, Seoul
Namu Academy, Namu Gallery, Seoul
The Woman & Reality, 21C Gallery, Seoul
1992  
The Korean Variation and Aim, Duckwon Gallery, Seoul
1990 
The 3rd Space, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul
 
Awards
2015
Prudential Eye Award, Best Emerging Artist Using Sculpture
2015
Reserch & Development Fund, Art Council England, London
2012  
GFA, Art Council England, London
Korean Art Council Fund, ARKO, Seoul
2001  
The 5thGalerie BHAK Contest of Young & Remarkable Artist, Galerie BAHK, Seoul
1998 
 ACAVA 98, The First Base Award, ACAVA London
1995
 Namu Academy Competition, Namu Gallery, Seoul
1994  
Contemporary Sculpture Competition, Seoul Press Center, Seoul
1993  
Korean Grand Annual Competition, Seoul
 
Commission Works
2014
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
2009   
Yongsan Council, Seoul
1999  
Memorial Sculpture for Margaret Powell, Commissioned by Margaret Powell Foundation
 
Attended Residence Programs
2009   
GMOMA, Gyounggi-Do
2004   
West Dean College, West Sussex, England
2002-3 
Ssamzie Artist Residency Program, Seoul
 
Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Houston Art Museum, Houston
Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
Painting Studio, Tokyo
Yongsan Council, Seoul
Mongin Art Centre, Seoul
Seoul City Museum, Seoul
British Art Council, London
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery







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