SHIN SANG HO
Shin Sang Ho, an artist of clay, earned his fame through series of fired paintings and led the contemporary Korean ceramic art to the attention of the world with works that combine ceramic art and painting for the past 30 years. These fired paintings can be used for exterior material for buildings and a museum in Korea named ClayArch (Clay+Architecture) has shown potential of ceramic architecture by using Shin’s fired ceramic paintings to cover the whole museum. Shin first gained traction with overseas collectors with ‘Dream of Africa’ series, which was motivated by African art that fascinated him while he was a visiting professor at Imperial College in London. ‘Dream of Africa’ led him to be the invited artist in world Long House Reserve in Hampton in New York. Elegant deep colors that you see in his fired paintings and his ‘Minhwa Horse’ with motive from Korea’s traditional folk drawings can only be obtained through multiple firing at a high temperature, not seen in any other forms of painting.
EDUCATION
1976 M.F.A. Dept. College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Korea
1973 B.F.A. Dept. College of Craft Design,Hong-Ik University, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Shin Sang Ho Exhibition with Daks (Gallery LF, Seoul, Korea)
2007 The Shin Sang HoO Exhibition (Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea)
2004 Dream of Africa (LongHouse Reserve, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2004 Dream of Africa (Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Dream of Africa (TONG-IN Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 Dream of Africa (Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea)
1998 Okinawa Newspaper-The 50th anniversary (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 Solo Exhibition (Dong-A Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1995 Solo Exhibition (SOGETSU Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
1991 Solo Exhibition (Art Gallery of Chosun Newspaper, Seoul, Korea)
1987 Solo Exhibition (Seoul Gallery; Press Center, Seoul, Korea)
1984 Solo Exhibition (The Central Conn State University Art Gallery, New Britain, CT, U.S.A)
1982 Solo Exhibition (Meitetsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
1980 Solo Exhibition (Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
1979 Solo Exhibition (Makhyang Art Gallery, Daegu, Korea)
1978 Solo Exhibition (Sinsaegae Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1973 Solo Exhibition (Midopa Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Change from Material into Art (Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea)
2009 2009 Gyeonggi Annual Project Contemporary Ceramic Art: Ceramics-Climax (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea)
2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2009 Main Exhibition Ⅱ: Dissolving views (Cheongju, Korea)
2009 Beginning of New Era Space Project: The New Beginning of Art! (Construction Site of National Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2007 Exhibition of Permanent Collection (Youngeun Museum, Kwangju, Korea)
2006 2006 Art Chicago (Grand Park Butler Field, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.)
2006 Asian Ceramic Delta: Rock Paper Scissors (Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea)
2004 Japan-Korea Contemporary Ceramics-Exchange Exhibition of New Generation (Aichi Prefecture Ceramic Museum, Seto, Japan)
2004 Composition & Center (Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2003 The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art (Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan)
2003 Korean Ceramics Tradition and Transformation (San Diego City College, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.)
2003 Joining of Primitive Art and Modern Art Exhibition (Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2002 Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy (The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Canada)
2002 IAC Member’s Exhibition (Spata, Greece)
2001 The World Contemporary Ceramics (Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea)
2001 IAC Member’s Exhibition (Gwangju Joseon Royal Kiln Museum, Gwangju, Korea)
2000 Breaking the surface: Korean Ceramics (Britain, U.K./Bohemia, Hong Kong)
2000 The Flow and the Expectancy of Contemporary Arts: from Persona to Puissance (Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1999 Hongik Ceramic Artists Society (Thoart space, Seoul, Korea)
1997 The Collection (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, WA, U.S.A)
1996 Korea Collection (The British Museum, London, U.K.)
1996 The Special Exhibition of Korean Collection (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.)
1995 Quality․Quantity․Inspiration (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1994 The Exhibition of Opening (Mokam Arts Museum, Cheongdo, Korea)
1994 The Taipei International Exhibition of Ceramics (The National Museum of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan)
1994 The Exhibition of Late Twentieth Century Ceramics from the Everson Collection (The National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan)
1993 The Modern Korean Ceramics Exhibition (Sandiago, CA, U.S.A.)
1993 The Modern Fine Arts Exhibition (Arts Center, Seoul, Korea)
1992 JINRO Ceramics Art Exhibition (Arts Center, Seoul, Korea)
1991 The ‘91 Modern Arts Exhibition (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1990 The Contemporary Korean Ceramic Exhibition (Korean Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.)
1989 The ’89 Modern Arts Exhibition (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1988 The Korean Modern Arts Exhibition (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1987 The Modern Three Korean Ceramist Exhibition (Syracuse Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.)
1987 The Modern Korean Black and White Arts Exhibition (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1986 The Korea Contemporary Arts of Yesterdays and Today (The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1986 The Special Exhibition of Porcelain (Hoam Art Museum, Yongin, Korea)
and More Than 60 Group Exhibition