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Shin Sang-ho | |
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Born | 1947 |
Nationality | South Korean |
Korean name | |
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Revised Romanization | Sin Sangho |
McCune–Reischauer | Sin Sangho |
Shin Sang-Ho ( Korean: 신상호; Hanja: 申相浩; born 1947) is an internationally known Korean ceramicist. His works can be found in museums around the world especially the Shin Sang-ho Art Museum. He is the former Dean, College of Fine Arts at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. [1]
Many of the living great Korean ceramicists of today resulted from the South Korean government's program in the mid-20th century to rediscover the secrets of ancient Korean celadon ceramics from the Goryeo period, one of the pinnacles of Korean ceramic arts. After graduating from Hongik University in Seoul, Shin began his career by recreating this traditional blue-green celadon as well as buncheong.
Starting in 1965 he began submitting his works to both the Korean Commerce and Industry Art Exhibition and Korean Industrial Artists Association Exhibition. He took a bronze medal in 1968.
1973 solo tour of Japan including Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, Yamagata, and Mitsukoshi where he received an award from the Culture and Information Commissioner. Three-person exhibition in Hamburg Germany.
In 1974, he was invited to join 3 other Korean potters in a four person exhibition held at Mitsuha.
In 1978 he received the Chairman's award at Korea's National Folk Art Competition.
In 1979 exhibitions in New York and Washington DC
In 1980 exhibitions Boston, University of Southern California, U.C.L.A., and Shinjuku Japan
In 1981 works included in the Korean Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition (New York, Los Angeles, Paris)
In 1980's continued experimentation and developing his own particular style of celadon and buncheong ware. He also became a lecturer in the Applied Art Department of Sungshin Women's University and Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University. [2]
In 1986 then Korean President Chun Doo-hwan and his wife presented Queen Elizabeth II two of Shin's vases. See External Links below.
After a brief sojourn in London as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Art (1995–1997) where he was exposed particularly to African art, he returned to Korea with an abruptly different style from the traditional work of his early years, fusing both western and eastern design in his work. The "Dream" series (1995) was one of his first exhibits to gain international recognition, [3] and fused traditional Asian vessel shapes and punch'ong glazes decorated with abstract patterns reminiscent of Asian calligraphy or ink wash paintings. Traveling extensively around the world his later pieces have become increasingly contemporary. His "Dream of Africa" series (2002) fused primitive animal art with modern minimalism.[ citation needed]
In the 1990s Shin began developing "fired painting" tiles used as a means to apply ceramic arts to commercial architecture. His fired painting tiles were used as the exterior surface to the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea, where he is currently their Director. [4] In 2000, a particularly large installation he created was installed within the overhead covered walkway connecting the Seoul JW Marriott Hotel and the Seoul Central City Express Bus Terminal.
When working in celadon, Shin typically signed his works by first engraving his stylized signature in thin clear lines and curves. The engraved area was then filled in with a darker clay before firing. When working in buncheong, Shin typically signed his works with a wider deep engraving that was left unfilled. Many buncheong works are signed near the foot instead of the bottom.
Shin's work is in the permanent collections of: