Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Soo Shin

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Soo Shin was born in Seoul, Korea in 1981. She moved to the United States in 2008 to develop her practice, which incorporates drawing, painting, and sculpture. She is constantly looking for new materials and experimenting with new mediums to find efficient ways to communicate with her audience. She has shown her work in a variety of locations such as Seoul, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Berlin. She finished her M.F.A. degree at the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring of 2011.

Studios

Eastman

Soo Shin worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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