Face the Music by Hyeyoung Shin

On view:  September 25 - October 26, 2023

Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, Sep 28, 4:30 – 6:30pm

This exhibition includes work from three past projects and a new project, Unapologetic (2016-2017), Lingers (2015 - 2018), Tide (2013-2019), and Familiar Consequences (2020-2023). Throughout Shin's art practices, she portrays how human bodies deal with the complexities of isolation, estrangement, social pressures, and grief in life in lyrical senses, as the artist often faces the familiar consequences of fears yet also takes courage to cope and heal.

Hyeyoung Shin is an artist and art educator whose practices in printmaking, drawing, and paper sculpture. Her art practices seek to create a space for sharing experiences with people. Throughout her art practices, she is interested in creating some sort of an ambiguous space to speak about human vulnerability and collective sense of belongings where we are able to define and value ourselves as human being. The representation and experience of her artwork, which can be taken intimately and emotionally, is an acceptance and respect of what it is to be human. She currently teaches printmaking and drawing courses in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her work has been featured in numerous national & international group shows and residency programs, including the Nelson-Atkinson Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Art in Washington DC; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, H&R Block Gallery, and the Studio Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri; Weatherspoon Art Museum in UNC Greensboro, NC; Douro Museum in Alijo, Portugal, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and Il Bisonte Foundacion for Printmaking, Florence, Italy; Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA; ‘ACE Proyecto in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, NY; 20|20 Gallery in the Elizabeth Arts Foundation, NYC, and one of her recent paper sculptures, ‘Immeasurable,’ won the ‘Best in Show’ for 2021 Cambridge Art Association’s Prize Show.  

This exhibition was funded by the Eric Sweet Memorial Fund.

Questions? Or schedule a tour: Madeleine LeMieux binghamgallery@missouri.edu