TJ Shin (b. 1993, Seoul) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Their multimedia practice spanning film, video, installation, and sculpture explores multiple temporalities and spatial representations of global systems. Research-based and often site-specific, their practice explores how structures of power influence both the ideology of form and the formalization of ideology.
Shin has exhibited at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Queens Museum, Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Arts, Princeton University, Montclair State University Galleries, Doosan Gallery, Knockdown Center, and more. Their writing has been published in Active Cultures, Artforum, Asia Art Archive, the Brooklyn Rail, Mousse Magazine, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. They have been invited as artist-in-residence at Princeton University, Indiana University, University at Buffalo, Recess, Wave Hill, Folly Tree Arboretum, Banff Centre, and more. Their works have been reviewed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, ArtPapers, ArtAsiaPacific, C Magazine, and The New York Times.
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