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- E-mail | soomin.shon@gmail.com
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Biography
Working across video, installation, performance, and publishing, Soomin Shon investigates how listening and communication are shaped by everyday infrastructures and mediated environments. Drawing on lived encounters and social traces, she constructs situations in which bodies, sound, and language circulate through fragile systems of connection. Shon holds an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been presented at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, ARKO Art Center, and the Seoul Museum of Art.
Musicbox, performance and installation, 2023
Musicbox, installation, 2024
Exhibition view of The 24th SongEun Art Award, (SongEun Art Center, 2024)
If Reality Is the Best Metaphor, book, offset print, loose binding, 17.5×24 cm, 68 pp, in collaboration with Julia Schäfer, 2023
In God We Trust, Video (color, sound), 9min 55sec, 2023
Exhibition view of If Reality Is the Best Metaphor (Seoul Museum of Art Storage, 2023)
Romanovsky vs. Rabinovich, 1924, Offset print, 5×7 in, 2023
A Good Knight, video (color, sound), 10 min 32 sec, 2023
Unknown Language #2, performance, approx. 30 min, 2025
3 Smartphones, 22 Phone Chargers, and 4 Power Cords, video (color, sound), 2 min 35 sec, 2024
Exhibition view of The 15th Gwangju Biennale, PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century (2024)
Unmellow Yellow, engraving and offset print on paper, 4×6 in, 2017–2025
Playing Catch, performance and two-channel video (color, sound), 2019–2025
Exhibition view of In Situ, (ARKO Art Center, 2025)
2019 MFA in Graphic Design, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2008 BA in Art History, Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2004 Diploma in Piano, Juilliard School Pre-College, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2023 If Reality Is the Best Metaphor, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) Storage, Seoul
2023 A Good Knight, Hapjungjigu, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions, screenings
2025 In Situ, ARKO Art Center, Seoul
2025 One Hundred Percent, Space Aefter, Seoul
2025 Shadow Mountain Light Water Scent Moon, Yeongdeungpo Gyeongin-ro 719, Seoul
2024 Gwangju Biennale 15 Pansori, Gwangju, KR, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
2024 Songeun Art Award, Songeun, Seoul
2024 Screening vol.2 Capture, Windmill, Seoul
2023 Forking Room—Adrenaline Prompt, Ujeongguk, Seoul
2023 Reading Technology Questioning Technology, Women's Tech Lab, Seoul
2022 En Route, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul
2022 Re-working Senses, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2022 Womens Laptop Sunday, Online performance
2021 New Home, Seoul Artists’ Platform, Seoul
2019 Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Olympia gallery, Glasgow, UK
2019 Today, A Reader, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
Other Projects
Selected performances
2024 Unmellow Yellow, Seoul Artists’ Platform (SAPY), Seoul
2022 Heavenly Bodies, Windmill, Seoul
Selected publications
2025 Through the Needle’s Eye, Yeongdeungpo Cultural Foundation
2023 If Reality Is the Best Metaphor, Seoul Museum of Art
2023 Drawing a Hand without Bodily Intelligence, Forkingroom
2022 Are We All Thieves?, Sohwansa d/p
Residency
2026 SFAC Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Residency, Seoul
2025 Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) residency, Dublin, IE
2025 Arts Council Korea (ARKO) Art Center residency, Seoul
2018 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library fellowship, New Haven, CT
Grants&Awards
2024 Emerging Artists Grant, Arts Council Korea, KR
2024 Emerging Artists Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2023 SeMA Emerging Artists and Curators Grant, Seoul Museum of Art, KR
2023 Project grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2022 Project research grant, Arts Council Korea, KR
2022 Project research grant, Gyonggi Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2019 Tsai CITY Innovation Fund, Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale,
New Haven, CT
