"I am interested in all kinds of visual art based on reality. I seek to find the truth in the human form and to translate that into my own vision of natural beauty."

Shin-Young recently creates portraits juxtaposing ordinary, routine tasks against a backdrop of current news articles featuring a variety of social, political and environmental issues and events.

She began studying art in her home country of South Korea,obtaining a B.F.A from Hyosung Women’s University, Daegu in 1986. She has additionally studied at the Art Students League of NY mostly under Harvey Dinnerstein and Kenneth Mclndoe and “Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc” in Barcelona, Spain after
she received her M.F.A in painting from The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art in 2001.
Her work influenced by many great artists includes Eric Fischl, Edward Schmidt(Copying Class at the Metropolitan Museum in NY), Patrick Connors and etc.

An’s work had solo exhibitions at the AMAG(Azarian McCullough Art Gallery) of St. Thomas Aquinas College in 2013,
M. Christina Geis Gallery of Georgian Court University in 2010, Monmouth Museum in 2009, Greenwich Village in 2007 and “La Bolsa” gallery in Barcelona, Spain in 2004, and about 80 invitational and juried group exhibitions throughout the USA, Spain, Japan and S. Korea since she immigrated to the USA in 1995 include at Noyes Museum, New Jersey State Museum,
Monmouth Museum, Huston Museum of Natural Science Museum, Trenton City Museum, Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center
and etc.

She has been awarded approximately more than 30 awards from national and international competitions include a 2011 Fellowship grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Best of Show in 2004 from Hartland Exhibition of the City of Merriam in Kansas, Best of Show in 2005 for Focus on the Figure at Hopper House in NY, Xavier Gonzalez & Edwards Grant for Painting from the Artists League of NY in 2003.

An's work reviewed and published more than 32 press and web media throughout the USA, Spain, S. Korea , UK, Germany and Italy. … Read More