Archive 2014
Jeena Shin
The Curator for the 2014 award was Emma Bugden. Emma is a curator currently based in Whanganui. Emma has previously worked as Programmes Manager / Senior Curator at The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt; Director of ARTSPACE, Auckland; Curatorial Director of Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City; and Curator at City Gallery Wellington. She has undertaken residencies at PROGRAM, Berlin and NIFCA, Helsinki, and was part of the 2010 International curators program at Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow. She has written for a range of art publications.
The recipient of the 2014 award was Jeena Shin.
When presenting Jeena Shin to the Trust, Emma Bugden said,
Jeena Shin is a painter of exquisite subtlety, despite the dramatic scale she often works at. Her paintings appear from a distance as monochromatic flat surfaces, but closer inspection reveals a myriad of just-different tones that undulate and shift before your eyes.
Jeena’s works respond directly to architecture, especially her large-scale wall paintings that are literally “paintings to walk by”. Activating the space they inhabit, these paintings make you acutely aware of your own body as you move through or past them.
If Jeena’s work makes you think of origami, it is not surprising. To create her paintings, no matter how large and complex, the artist starts by simply folding a piece of paper to create a series of layered shapes. When opened back up again, this paper becomes the blueprint for the painting. The delicacy and precision of the paper folds are reflected by the painted tessellations that evoke contoured forms.
Emma Bugden
Senior Curator, The Dowse Art Museum
Motus
Two Rooms, 5 - 23 December 2014
Download the accompanying text by Janine Raderson:
Jeena Shin Motus Series - Janine Randerson (PDF)
Jeena Shin – Curriculum vitae
Born 1973, Seoul, Korea
Represented by Two Rooms, Auckland
Education
1999-2000, Masters of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
1993-1997, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Reflection Reflected, Two Rooms, Auckland
2011
Big wall Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2010
Fractus, Two Rooms, Auckland
2009
ARTSPACE Stairwell Project (1973-) 2009-2011, ARTSPACE, Auckland
Te Tuhi Wall Project, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland
2006
Shadow Line, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
2004
Lux, Show Gallery, Wellington
2003
Plane, Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton
2000
Two fold, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
1999
The fold, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
1997
Jeena Shin, In Situ, Pilot Project Room, Auckland Institute of Technology, Auckland
Sunyata, Fiat Lux, Auckland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Painting Two: The thick of it: Kevin Appel, Basil Beattie, Alexis Harding, Noel Ivanoff, Jeena Shin, Rohan Weallean
2012
Procedure, Simon Ingram, Richard Killeen, Sean Kerr, Jeena Shin, John F. Simon Jr., Martin Thompson, Curated by Simon Bowerbank Rm, Auckland
2011
Translated, Korea Foundation Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Seoul Changdong Art Studio Gallery, International Residence Exchange Program, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
2010
Small Paintings, Two Rooms, Auckland
2009
The Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington
Works on Paper: Kevin Appel (LA), Joachim Bandau (GER), Frank Gerritz (GER), Jane Harris (UK), Noel Ivanoff (NZ), Simon Morris(NZ), Jeena Shin(NZ), Two Rooms, Auckland
Abstract Realities, Curated by Kyle Jenkins, USQ Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
2008
Yo Modernism II, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium.
Cross Talk, Two Rooms, Auckland
Back to Front, 64zero3, Christchurch
Group Exhibition, ie. Contemporary Art Projects, Toowoomba, Queensland
2007
Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand Art, City Gallery, Wellington
2006
16@64zero3, 64zero3, Christchurch
SNO23, Gerold Miller, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Anselm Reyle, John Nixon, Jeena Shin, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney
SNO22, Julie Spielman, Masato Takasaka, Andrew Leslie, Justin Andrews, Jeena Shin, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney
Respirator, Craig Easton, Simon McIntyre, David Thomas, Jeena Shin, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
Stephen Bram, Anton Parsons, Richard Reddaway, Jeena Shin, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
Fiona Amundsen, Christopher Braddock, Jeena Shin, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland
2005
SNO12, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney
Group Show, West Space, Melbourne
59 Meters Squared, Canary Gallery, Auckland
Transmission: Craig Easton, Simon Morris, Jeena Shin, 64zero3, Christchurch
2004
New New Zealand Art, Canary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand and Mop Project, Sydney (curated by Ben Curnow)
No Matter I, Ben Buchanan, Craig Easton, Howard Matil, Jeena Shin, Rm.103, Auckland
No Matter II, Ben Buchanan, Craig Easton, Howard Matil, Jeena Shin, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
2003
Janine Randerson and Jeena Shin, Snowhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland
Changing time in painting, 6 Artist from New Zealand, Abstraction and time,
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (Curated by David Thomas)
2002
Jeena Shin & Janine Randerson, Room 401, Auckland?Raumanx, ASA Gallery, Auckland
Lush, Platform Gallery, Melbourne
2000
The Collected Works, Going Public at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery 1970-2000,
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Rosy Parlane & Jeena Shin, Room 212, Auckland
1999
Multiples, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
1998
Group Show, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
1997
Group Show, Fiat Lux, Auckland
Selected Bibliography
Bowerbank, Simon, Procedure: Simon Ingram, Richard Killeen, Sean Kerr, Jeena Shin, John F. Simon Jr., Martin Thompson, Rm, 2012
Scott, Hanna, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 75 September/October 2011
Scott, Hanna, Listener, May 14, 2011, Issue 3705 2011
Randerson, Janine, Volume2, Artspace 2011
Translated, The National Art Studio, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea 2011
Benson, Nigel, “Lights in white Patter,” Otago Daily Times, Saturday, May 7, 2011, p3.
Paul Wood, Andrew, “Shin and Katchadourian in Dunedin, eyecontact site, July 2011
Hurrell, John, “Jeena Shin’s Stairwell Wall, eyecontact site, February 2010
Rouse, Jenny, “Spatial Planes, Wall Works Marks a Decade of Adam Art
Gallery.” Art New Zealand, No.132, Summer 2009-2010, pp28-31
Corner, Katy, Art News, Summer 2009, p39
Hurrell, John, “On Adam’s walls”, eyeCONTACT online blog, September 23, 2009
Hurrell, John, “Shin exhibition”, eyeCONTACT, online blog, October 21, 2009
Gillam, Jenny and Hansen, Eugene ed. Show, 2009
Scott, Hanna, “Crystal Method”, Urbis Issue 41, P.57-58, 2007
Galbraith, Heather, Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand Art, City Gallery, Wellington, 2007
Rice, Rebecca, Exhibition Review Wellington, Art New Zealand No. 123, Winter 2007, pp48-49
Johnstone, Christopher, “Paper View”, Urbis Issue 31, P.100, 2006
Moore, Marcus, “SHOW Solo,” Art New Zealand, No.116, 2005, pp60-63
Allan, Adrien, “Respirator, Weep Holes”, Conical Gallery, Melbourne, 2006
Carley, Rachel, Shadow Line, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, 2006
Curnow, Ben, New New Zealand Art, Mop Project, Sydney, 2004
Pavement Magazine, Issue 64, Winter 2004
Carley, Rachel, Plane, Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, 2003
Thomas, David, Changing times in painting, Painting as models of time and the real, 6 Artists from New Zealand: Abstraction and Time, Conny Dieschold Gallery, Sydney, 2003
Riley, Bill, Lush, Platform Gallery, Melbourne, 2002
Rosy Parlane and Jeena Shin, Rm212, Auckland, 2001
Conland, Natasha, Two fold, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, 2000
Shin, Jeena, In situ, Pilot Project Room, AIT, Auckland, 1998 ?
Circular #5, Australia+ New Zealand Edition, 1997
Paton, Justin, How to look at a painting, TV Series Documentary, 2011
Residency
Artspace Residency Korea 2011, Changdong Art Studio in Korea, National Studio of Arts, National museum of Contemporary Arts Korea