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Kyungmi Shin - Artists - Sperone Westwater

love's paradise, 2022

Kyungmi Shin was born in South Korea (1963) and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley (1995). Working with painting, sculpture and photography, Shin explores various histories, identities and migrations by interrogating colonial, capitalist and religious global expansion and its effect. Shin has presented works at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (2024); Sperone Westwater (2024); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2023); Various Small Fires (2023; 2021-22); Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2022); Galerie Marguo, Paris (2022); Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2020-21); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2021); Japanese American National Art Museum, Los Angeles (2008-09); Torrance Art Museum, CA (2008); The Berkeley Art Museum, CA (2007); and Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2000). Shin has received numerous grants including California Community Foundation Grant, City of Los Angeles Master Artist Grant (COLA), Durfee Grant and Pasadena City Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ. She has completed over 20 public artworks, including a video sculpture for the Netflix headquarters in Hollywood, CA (2018). Mostly recently, Shin was commission to create the large scale mosaic Spring to Life, at the Intuit Dome, the new home of the LA Clippers in Inglewood, CA.

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Artworks

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Kyungmi Shin
to be appetite of your own appetite, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
60 x 80 x 2 inches (152,4 x 203,2 x 5,1 cm)
SW 24130

Kyungmi Shin
to be appetite of your own appetite, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
60 x 80 x 2 inches (152,4 x 203,2 x 5,1 cm)
SW 24130

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Kyungmi Shin
Graduates with a still life, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 24314

Kyungmi Shin
Graduates with a still life, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 24314

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Kyungmi Shin
The Invisible Woman #13, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 25123

Kyungmi Shin
The Invisible Woman #13, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 25123

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A bowl of fruit with centered in a scene with a white outline of vases and assorted boxes on the proper left, overlay an image of a table with men and children in the background.

Kyungmi Shin

superfluity of things, 2023

photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel

48 x 59 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches (121,9 x 151,8 x 4,1 cm)

SW 23167

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Diptych executed with two separate wood panels featuring a combination of images, mythical figures, plant life, and images overlay or on top of drawing and painting

Kyungmi Shin

the tropical other, 2023

photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel

diptych; 59 3/4 x 40 x 1 5/8 inches (151,8 x 101,6 x 4,1 cm) each
59 3/4 x 82 x 1 5/8 inches (151,8 x 208,3 x 4,1 cm) overall

SW 23173

Kyungmi Shin
to be appetite of your own appetite, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
60 x 80 x 2 inches (152,4 x 203,2 x 5,1 cm)
SW 24130

Kyungmi Shin
to be appetite of your own appetite, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
60 x 80 x 2 inches (152,4 x 203,2 x 5,1 cm)
SW 24130

Kyungmi Shin
Graduates with a still life, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 24314

Kyungmi Shin
Graduates with a still life, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 24314

Kyungmi Shin
The Invisible Woman #13, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 25123

Kyungmi Shin
The Invisible Woman #13, 2024
photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel
40 x 30 x 1 5/8 inches (101,6 x 76,2 x 4,1 cm)
SW 25123

A bowl of fruit with centered in a scene with a white outline of vases and assorted boxes on the proper left, overlay an image of a table with men and children in the background.

Kyungmi Shin

superfluity of things, 2023

photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel

48 x 59 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches (121,9 x 151,8 x 4,1 cm)

SW 23167

Diptych executed with two separate wood panels featuring a combination of images, mythical figures, plant life, and images overlay or on top of drawing and painting

Kyungmi Shin

the tropical other, 2023

photo transfer and acrylic on wood panel

diptych; 59 3/4 x 40 x 1 5/8 inches (151,8 x 101,6 x 4,1 cm) each
59 3/4 x 82 x 1 5/8 inches (151,8 x 208,3 x 4,1 cm) overall

SW 23173