Gyung Jin Shin
(b.1983)
Gyung Jin Shin is an artist and researcher whose work explores the historical and socio-political dimensions of technicity. Working across sculpture, video, and digital media, her practice critically investigates the ontological shifts of the human within technical milieus. She integrates theoretical research into her artistic practice to recontextualize the relationship between art, technology, and society within a historical trajectory, while exploring the emergence of new subjectivity and authorship under the posthuman condition. Her recent work focuses on and makes visible the intricate entanglements of human affect, labor, and material resources within a contemporary society shaped by the regime of data colonialism and techno-capitalist infrastructures.
Her research and practice have been presented internationally across both academic and cultural platforms. Her scholarly work has been published in the journal Leonardo (MIT Press), and her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications including the Los Angeles Times. Her exhibition and screening history includes Doosan Gallery New York, Night Gallery (Los Angeles), the Chelsea Art Museum, the Fisher Landau Center for Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, the Ilmin Museum, Prix Videoformes, the Gangwon International Triennale, and the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.
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EDUCATION
2022 PhD City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, Hong Kong
2010 MFA Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
2008 MFA Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2006 BFA Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Unmined, Current Plans, Hong Kong
2015 Smiley Suicide, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013 Hexagonal Chamber, Gallery Kong, Seoul, Korea (SeMA Emerging Artist Fund)
2012 Specimens, Art Show Busan (solo presentation), BEXCO, Busan, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2027 Ghosts of Extraction, Hyundai Blue Prize+ Exhibition, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, China (Forthcoming)
2024 Gangwon International Triennale 2024, Pyeongchang, Korea
2024 (E)Motion: Digital Possibilities, Shenzhen Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
2023 Metamorphosis: Art Amidst Change, Nexus Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2023 Re-Envisioning Myriad Happenings: Through Digital Lens, Tddc, HKBU, HK
2019 Open Systems Salon, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, HK
2018 SINGULARITY NOW, 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2017 Crossing Border Border Crossing, International Festival of Intermedia 2017, JCCAC, HK
2017 1968 Modern Space 2017, Kim Jong Young Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 PRIX VIDEOFORMES 2015, Maison de la Culture, Clermont-ferrand, France
2014 International Streaming Festival, Project Space The [.BOX], Milan, Italy
2013 Round-up, SeMA Emerging Artist Show, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 Mannered Attitude, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2012 Confession, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Innerspacing the City, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, New York, USA
2011 Terra Incognita, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
2010 Making the Leap: Crossing Borders, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2010 Subtle Anxiety, Doosan Gallery, NYC, New York, USA
SELECTED RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Shin, Gyung Jin. 2026. “Copy-Makers, Craftsmen, and the Art Tech Group: A Critical Historiography of Collective Technical Artistry.” Korea Journal, 66(3). [A&HCI / SJR Q1]
Shin, Gyung Jin. 2024. “Technology as Resistance: Pioneers of Korean Media Art from the 1960s to the 1990s.” Leonardo, 57(4), 453–459. [A&HCI / SJR Q1]
Shin, Gyung Jin. 2024. “Robotic Art and Human-Nonhuman Collaboration in the Context of Author Discourse.” Japanese Cultural Studies, 88, 209-227.
Shin, Gyung Jin. 2023. “Symbiotic Collaborators: The New Creative Subject in Postdigital Participatory Art.” Proceedings of ISEA2023 (pp. 187-192).
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 RE:SEARCH, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC), Korea
2023 ADC Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
2013 SeMA Emerging Artist Fund, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2011 Visual Art Fund for International Exchange, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korea