Yong Sin
Yong Sin

About

Lives & works in San Pedro, CA
Primarily works on painting/installation using mixed media.

Sin reveals an accumulation of intuitively drawn, unmeasured geometric shapes that form a pattern to create the illusion of precise, outward symmetry. “My goal is to explore the ‘idea’ of shapes as opposed to their measured reality,” states the Los Angeles-based artist.

Sin creates just enough expressive variation to the seemingly endless recurring shapes to make the viewer notice there is more than meets the eye. Lines and color seem to shift, creating a feeling of possibilities unfolding as the mind focuses throughout each aspect.

Sin’s artwork creates a visual sanctity of order, drawing the viewer onto an intimate stage where her shapes begin a new play and take an especially animated life. At close range Sin’s aesthetic shifts from formal to informal, simple to complex, and static to dynamic.

Website
http://yongsinarts.com
http://www.saatchionline.com/yongsin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yongsin-art/
Work
Fellowships/Awards
2010 Los Angeles World Airports Project/Terminal 2
2009 Los Angeles World Airports Project/Terminal 1/ Gate 2
2008 Los Angeles World Airports Project/Terminal 1/ Gate 1
Los Angeles County MTA Neighborhood Poster
Project Finalist
2003 Leah Middlebrook and Norio Sugano Fellowship
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
2002 KAFA Award Finalist
Jurors/Howard Fox, Henry Hopkins, David Pagel
1999 Art/Omi Foundation, International Artists’
Residency, Ghent, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Op Collage III (Forthcoming)
Los Angeles World Airport Project/Terminal 2, LAX, CA
2010 De/Form
George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
Op Collage II
Los Angeles World Airport Project/Terminal 1
US Airways, LAX, CA December 30, 2009 – May 3, 2010
2009 Op Collage
Los Angeles World Airport Project/Terminal 1 West
Gate 1/SouthWest, LAX, CA December 10, 2009 – May 3, 2010
Rollover
Boardroom, Chamber of Commerce, San Pedro, CA
This Is The Same, But Different, Part II
AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Rule Out Curator/Kristina Newhouse
South Bay Focus, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance,CA
This Is The Same, But Different
AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Pattern Recognition
Sarah Lee Artworks and Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Squares and Zits
Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Relatively the Same
Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Yong Sin
Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Being and Nothingness
Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Being and Nothingness
Sunyata Gallery, San Pedro, CA

Two-Person Exhibitions
2010 Red Swirls & Ochre Stations
With Edith Abeyta, Scoops, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Plain And Simple
With Betsy Lohrer Hall Curator/Marshall Astor
Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2002 Kent & Sin With Kristi Kent, Curator/Carl F.Berg
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Soft Curator/ Edith Abeyta
Future Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
To Live and Draw in L.A
Curator/ Marshall Astor, AGCC, San Pedro, CA
Paper Trail II
Curator/ Paul Evans, Happy, Los Angeles, CA
2008 KIAF-Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2008 SICAF-Seoul International Contemporary Art
Festival, Seoul, Korea
2007 Edith Abeyta’s Cry Me a River, Blue Drawings
El Camino College, Torrance, CA
Los Angeles Five Asian Contemporary Art Curator/
Sugar Brown/George Billis Gallery,
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA
PlayitGround Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA Curator/myself
2006 Group Show Back Room, Domestic Setting, Los
Angeles, CA
Chromaluxe Fine Arts Department Gallery,
CSULA, Los Angeles, CA Curator/Kristina Newhouse
Surface: Southern California Painters L Street
Fine Art, San Diego, CA Curator/ Tiffiny Lendrum
2005 Portraits L Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Curator/ Tiffiny Lendrum
Mix & Match Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Fresh stART ‘05 Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
Curators/Nancy Baker-Cahill, Tiffiny Lendrum,
Ben Barnz, Cris McCall, Ashley Mclean Emenegger
2004 Open Call L.A.2004 Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show Artlab, San Pedro, CA
2003 So/Cal: Artists out of Southern California
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Djerassi Award Show International Resident
Artists’ program Woodside, CA
2002 KAFA Award Show
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show Artlab, San Pedro, CA
2002 Kent & Sin Two-Person Show Curator/Carl F.
Berg Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Fresh stART Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA Curator/Tiffiny Lendrum & Nancy Baker-Cahill
2001 99.99 Curator/Carl F. Berg Irvine Fine
Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Fractals Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Curator/Carl F. Berg
2000 Charm Offensive Korean Cultural Center, Los
Angeles, CA Curator/Yong Soon Min
Art Fair Germany
Art Fair New York, NY
The Spurgeon Experience II/ Raid Projects
Curators/Carl F. Berg & Max Presneill
100 rooms/100 artists Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana, CA
1999 Art Fair Chicago, IL
International ART/OMI Art/Omi Foundation,Ghent,NY
Art Fair Miami, FL
1998 LA Artists Mirren Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
Curator/ Fred Spratt
The Group Show Art Works Gallery, San Diego, CA
1997 Exhibitions No.3 Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Leo S. Bing Center, Los Angeles, CA
Second Annual National Competition Exhibition
SITE, Los Angeles, CA Juror/Henry Hopkins
The Gate’s Own Angels Gate Cultural Center,
San Pedro, CA
100 Dollar Show POST, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Third Annual National Juried Exhibition St.
John’s University, Jamaica, NY Juror/Ross Barbera
The Gate’s Own Angels Gate Cultural Center,
San Pedro, CA
Alexandria Museum of Art’s 15th Annual Competition
Alexandria, LA Alexandria Museum of Art,
Juror/Eleanor Heartney
On Site at the Gate ‘96 Angels Gate Cultural
Center, San Pedro, CA Juror/Suzanne Muchnic
Healing Works Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Juror/Hollis Sigler
1995 Music Without Words Angels Gate Cultural
Center, San Pedro, CA Curator/Betsy Lohrer
The Gate’s Own Angels Gate Cultural Center, San
Pedro, CA
Works on Paper Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA Curator/Jody Baral

Selected Bibliography
Nathan Solis, “Exploring Space at the George Billis Gallery”
http://culvercity.patch.com/articles/exploring-space-at-
the-george-billis-gallery, September 20, 2010
Tim McGowen, “Drawn to Form”
http://www.lawa.aero/welcome_LAX.aspx?id=1610
Los Angeles World Airport Project, March 3, 2010
Vy Pham, “More Than This”
The Revealing Complexities of ‘Plain and Simple’
The Long Beach District Weekly, November 11, 2009
http://thedistrictweekly.com/2009/print/arts/visual/more-than-this/
Annie Buckley, “Yong Sin and Barry Markowitz at AndrewShire
Gallery” Artweek, Volume 38, Issue 5, June 2007
Mat Gleason, “The Mat Gleason Seven”, March/April, 2007
“Gallery; Yong Sin and Barry Markowitz at
AndrewShire”
Artscene Visual Radio Podcasts - Mat Gleason Shows
www.artscenevisualradio.com/podcasts_main.cfm?casts=mg
Suvan Geer, “Yong Sin”, April 2007 enews
Southern California Women’s Caucus For Art
John Souza, “This Is The Same But Different” Press
Release, andrewshiregallery.com March, 2007
Sookhee Jung, “This Is The Same But Different”
The Korea Times, Section D 10, March 10, 2007
Yena Yoo, “This Is The Same But Different”
The Korea Central Daily, Section A-16, March 9, 2007
June Lee, “Mix & Match” Daejeon Museum of Art, Catalogue, P.20 & P.54-P.57, April/May 2005
Tae Gi Moon, “LACMA’s Permanent Collection”
The Korea Times, Section A20, January 13, 2005
Yoo Hoi Ahn, “LACMA’s Permanent Collection”
The Korea Central Daily, Section A-18, January 7, 2005
Tae Gi Moon, “LACMA’s Permanent Collection”
The Korea Times, Section A20, December 30, 2004
Peter Frank, “Art Pick of the Week” LA Weekly, October 2004
Eve Wood, “Happy Day” Artnet.com, August 6, 2003
Changwook Jin/Sohyun Chang, “KAFA Show”
The Korea Central Daily, Section A-9, April 12,2003
TaeGi Moon, “KAFA Show” The Korea Times, Section A17, March 20, 2003
Hyun Ah Lim, “KAFA Award”
The Korea Central Daily, Section A15, May 15, 2002
Jae Jin Rhee, “Fractals”
The Korea Times, Section A17, September 13, 2001
Charlene Roth, “Charm Offensive”
Artweek, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2000
Jerome B. Block,“Yong Sin’s Peopled Landscapes”,
The Aesthetic, July-September 2000
Leah Ollman, “The Power of Identity”
Los Angeles Times, Section F22, March 24, 2000
Jerome B. Block,“Zits” Exhibition Catalogue, March 2000
Hae Jung Lee, “Contemporary Art in Los Angeles”
Wolganmisool, p.94-p.95, September 1999
Yoo Hoi Ahn, “Being and Nothingness”
The Korea Central Daily, Section C2, January 6, 1999
Yoo Hoi Ahn, “Existentialism: Being & Nothingness in Visual
Expression” The Korea Central Daily,Section C2,
July 1, 1998
Shirle Gottlieb,“Exploring Being and Nothingness”
Press-Telegram, Section C1, June 30, 1998
Jasmine Lee, “Life and Art...Being and Nothingness”
South Bay Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Front & p.8
February 27, 1997
Peter Frank, “Music to the Eyes: In Tune with Art”
Press-Telegram, Section D3, June 1, 1996
Eleanor Heartney,“15th Annual Alexandria Museum of Art”
Exhibition Catalogue, September 1996

Gallery Representation
George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA (2010)
Art Pic, North Hollywood, CA (2008 – 2010)
AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2007 – 2009)
Sarah Lee Artworks & Projects, Santa Monica, CA (2004)
Lendrum Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2000-2003)
Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA (1998 – 2000)

Curatorial Experiences
2007 Group Show, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 PlayitGround, Don O’ Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
2006 Group Show, Studio 414, San Pedro, CA

Presentations
Drawing Center, Viewing Program, Artist’s Registry, New York, NY
Drawing Center, (2003) New York, NY
Art Here and Now, (2002, 1999, 1998) Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA

Selected Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Permanent Collection), Microsoft Corporation, Art/Omi Foundation, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,
Pacific Design Center, 341 Gallery, Mirren Gallery, Dr. Taylor’s Wellness Center, Inc., My And Art Plus, And Three Company, and private collections

Selected Commercials
Montrose Prod./Rules of Engagement, Open 4 Bus./100 Questions, ABC Studios/Brothers & Sisters, The Group/Suzuki, Smuggler/Old Navy, Remote Broadcasting/ Nathan vs. Nurture, Backyard Prod./AT&T, Open 4 Bus./Parenthood, Hangman/Hung, Radical Media/Fifth Third Bank, RSA USA/Taco Bell, Moxie Picture/eHarmony, Epoch Films/AT&T, Touchstone/Desperate Housewives, Universal/House, CBS/CSI Miami

Teaching Experiences
1995-97 South Bay Conservatory, Torrance, CA
Drawing/Painting
1997-99 Advanced Education, Lomita, CA
Drawing/Painting
1995-10 Private Lessons, Drawing/Painting/Monoprint Workshop
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Education
Otis School of Art and Design, B.F.A. (1995)

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