Biography
Shin-Young Park (b.1975) is a Korean-born New Zealander. She completed BFA and MFA at the University of Auckland. Park moved to Singapore in 2006 and showcases her works through art galleries, participating in overseas exchange shows, art fairs, workshops, international residency programs and charity auctions. Park has won the “Iris Fisher Art Award” in 2005 in Auckland, nominated as a “Most Outstanding Emerging Artist” in Art Singapore 2009 and won the “BAZAAR Singapore Art Prize 2016”. Her works were commissioned by Mandarin Oriental Hotel in 2008 and Fullerton Bay Hotel in 2010. She represented Singapore at “The World Triennial of Printmaking” in Chamalieres, France in 2017. Through the years, she touched on various subject matters like racism, consumerism and sustainability but her main passion has been about the life of underprivileged people in our society.
Art in Action
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
2002- 2003 Master of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand
1995- 1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand
1991- 1994 Lynfield College, Auckland, New Zealand
AWARD / RESIDENCY PROGRAM
2017 ‘BAZAAR Singapore Art Prize 2016’ (2D on canvas category), Scotts Square, Singapore
2014 ‘Incheon Art Platform Artists-in-Residence Program’, Incheon, Korea
2012 ’Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship Program’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 ‘Most Outstanding Emerging Artist’ (New Finds), Art Singapore 2009, Singapore
2005 ‘Iris Fisher Art Award’ (Best Contemporary Work Award Winner), Te tuhi Gallery, Auckland
COMMISSION PROJECT / COLLECTION
2010 The Fullerton Bay Hotel, Singapore
2008 Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Singapore
2002 The James Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
GRANT
2017 National Arts Council for ‘The World Triennial of Prints and Original’, Singapore
2015 National Arts Council for ‘Syntheses’, Singapore
2014 Lee Foundation for ‘Artists-in-residence Program’, Singapore
2004 Asia 2000 Foundation of New Zealand for ‘ing’, The Edge, Aotea Center, Auckland
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2016 ‘dwell:ing’, Ludo gallery (Visual Arts Center), Singapore
2012 ‘Label Me’, Space 15th, Seoul, Korea
2005 ‘Contemporary’, Artspost, Hamilton, New Zealand
2004 ‘Blind Nation’, Corban Estate Arts Center, Auckland, NZ
‘ing’, The Edge, Aotea Center, Auckland, NZ
2003 ‘The Year of the Goat’, Northart Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘Epilogue’, CSC@Changi, Singapore
2021 ‘Moving Plates’, Mulan Gallery, Singapore
2020 ‘Small Print Exhibition 2020’ (Traveling Exhibition), Ashburton Art Gallery, New Zealand
‘Printmakers’ Assembly 2020’ (Online Exhibition), STPI, Singapore
2019 ‘Repeat, Repeat, Repeat; revising the phenomenon of printing’, The Private Museum, Singapore
‘Portraiture’ (Organizer), Mairangi Arts Center, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 ‘(IN)SIGNIFICANT 2.1’, Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, Singapore
‘Still Life’, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries, Singapore
2017 ‘Metagraphy’, Deck, Singapore
‘The World Triennial of Printmaking and Original Etching’ (Duo show), Beaumont, France
‘Contemporary Printmaking Festival 2017’, Capitol Piazza, Singapore
2016 ‘Sham’, Ludo Gallery, Singapore
‘Different Light’, unipon2kau2 art project space, Osaka, Japan
‘Asia Jula Jula-ring’, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2015 ‘New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2015’, Waikato Society of Arts, New Zealand
‘/*semble*/’, Former KTM Tanjong Pagar Railway Station (main hall), Singapore
‘Syntheses’ (Co-curated with Chong Weixin), Northart, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 ‘The first encounter, the beginning of ‘empty’ friendship’, Incheon Art Platform, Korea
‘Weaving Point’, Space Cottonseed, Singapore
2013 ‘Panoramic Imprint’, Singapore Printmaking Society, The Substation, Singapore
‘22nd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2013’ (finalist), Auckland, New Zealand
2012 ‘The Sovereign Asian Art Prize’ (20 Singapore finalist), Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
‘Trace Back’, Chang Dong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea