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CIGE Beijing 2015
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Translation Series, 36x24x24cm, soap, pigment, varnish and wooden crate, 2009
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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 |
