GUNWOO SHIN

    Artist, b. Seoul, Korea, 1978
    Currently working in London, UK and Seoul, Korea

     

    Education

    2003 BFA Sculpture, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Korea
    2006 MFA Sculpture, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Korea
    2009 MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK

     

    Solo exhibition

    2011
    Kaleidoscope / Gallery Hyundai(window), Seoul, Korea

    2006
    The 1st Solo Exhibition / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

     

    Group exhibitions (selected)

    2012
    Korea Tomorrow 2012 / Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, Korea (organised by H zone)
    Do Window Vol.4 / Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

    2011
    Clusters/ gallery EM, Seoul, Korea
    House of the nobleman –The return / Boswell house, London, UK

    2010
    Threshold to everyday-life / La cave, Geneva, Switzerland (organised by OVA)
    Present from the Past / Korean cultural centre, London, UK
    Down the Road of Globalisation / The gallery, St.martin-in-the-fields, London, UK (organised by Anna Art Project)
    Land Securities Award 2010 / Sw1 gallery, London, UK
    The 4th 4482 / Barge house, Oxo centre, London, UK
    Ways of seeing / I-MY project space, London, UK

    2009
    Defamiliarization / Nolias Gallery, London, UK (organised by Anna Art Project)
    Crossfields / Korean cultural centre, London, UK
    Degree Show 2009 / Slade School of fine art, London, UK

    2008
    The 38th parallel / G-spot show room, London, UK
    The 3rd 4482 / Barge house, Oxo centre, London, UK

    2006
    EHS Project / Sejong Culture Centre, Seoul, Korea

    2005
    The 2nd Hadae-ri Forest Art Festival / Kangwon-do, Korea
    Surreally Real / Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea

    2004
    White & Black / Gallery Ant Square, Seoul, Korea
    The 1st Hadae-ri Forest Art Festival / Kangwon-do, Korea
    Landscape of Taebaek / Coal Museum, Taebaek, Kangwon-do, Korea
    Imagination relay in Club / Kwangju Biennale exhibition hall 5, Korea

    2003
    'NO War' group Exhibition / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    2002
    The 11th Street Art Festival 'a three-cornered relation' / Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

     

    Awards

    2009 Land securities award

     

       

     

    Based on specific incidents and situations in reality my work portrays mental landscapes on the crossroad between the conscious and the unconscious like in memories or in dreams. I primarily rely on feelings and thoughts that occur in the process of living my day-to-day life by trying to awake my senses that have been dulled by everyday mundane routines. I also freely move beyond the lines of reality and the world of the surreal, giving diverse artistic imaginations to realistic subject matter. I discover and renew my understanding of 'myself' by collecting, modifying and presenting differently perceived narratives, going beyond the lines of myself and others. The objects to which my imagination brings life present an expanded alternative, moving beyond boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces.

     

    나의 작업은 현실에서 벌어지는 어떤 특정한 사건, 상황에 기반하여 기억이나 꿈과 같은 의식과 무의식이 교차하는 지점의 심리적 풍경들을 그려낸다. 나는 나 자신이 일상을 살아가는 과정에서 느끼는 감정과 생각들을 바탕으로, 현실적 소재에 다양한 예술적 상상력을 더해 현실과 초현실의 세계를 자유로이 넘나들며 일상 속에 무뎌진 감각들을 일깨우는데 주의를 기울이고 있다. 나는 '타자'와 '나'의 경계를 넘나들면서 서로에게 소통되지 못하고 다르게 인식되었던 이야기들을 채집하고, 변형하고 제시함으로써 그 차이를 인정하고, 새로운 '나'를 발견하며 재인식한다. 그리고 나의 상상력으로 인해 새롭게 생명력을 가지게 된 오브제들은 평면과 공간을 넘나들며 펼치는 축제를 통해 확장된 대안을 제시한다.