Upgrades Complete For El Cerrito del Norte BART Station
“…The second phase of the project included…two art walls, featuring landscape and architecture scenes from El Cerrito's past and present by artist Kyungmi Shin. The artist was selected by a panel of community members and arts professionals from among more than 70 artists who applied.”
VASC Public Art Commission
Kyungmi Shin/ Shin Gray Studio was selected to create a light artwork for the newly constructed Vietnamese American Social Services Center (VASC) in San Jose, CA. As the first service center of this kind, VASC will service the community with medical, social, and mental health services with bi-lingual services. We will work closely with the architect and the community to create a design that will provide an inspiring, harmonious, and healing experience.
Moving art: Dozens of CTA L, bus stations are home to murals, mosaics and sculptures
“…Inside the Granville Red Line station, Los Angeles artist Kyungmi Shin used Edgewater as inspiration for a mosaic that features overlapping images of buildings on Granville Avenue.”
Todd Gray, Mining the Archives: S. Charles Lee, Architect
Metro Purple Line Wilshire/La Cienega Station Commission
"Historically, the culture of Los Angeles and the American Dream was transmitted globally through film. The representation of the American Dream in cinema was dominated by images of [the] majority culture, and images of minority cultures and communities were rare. I’ve collaged images into my design to engage this narrative and paint a broader, more inclusive cultural picture."
Todd Gray’s artwork concept for the station’s glass entrance plaza and escalator landing walls juxtaposes archival architectural drawings by S. Charles Lee and historic photographs of the nearby Saban Theatre (formerly the Fox Wilshire Theatre) with a multicultural selection of iconic textile patterns. The recontextualized imagery invites viewers to consider the region’s history of migration and shifting demographics over time and under the influence of grand architecture.
Kyungmi Shin, Riding on that Carriage, 2020; archival epson print, painted & cut, 60 x 80 in.
Kyungmi Shin: Father Crosses the Ocean
OCMA Spring 2020, Curated by Cassandra Coblentz
Kyungmi Shin examines the impact of colonialism on cultural exchange through the lens of her family’s experience emigrating from South Korea to the United States. Through photocollages and porcelain busts she made of herself and her father, a Christian minister, Shin explores the influence of Eastern philosophy on Western culture. She looks to the history of the Chinese porcelain trade that gave rise to chinoiserie ceramics, which combined European and Asian elements, as emblematic of a cultural hybridity that resulted from European colonialism.
Todd Gray, Euclidean Gris Gris (Paris/Cape Town), 2019; two archival pigment prints with UV laminate in artist’s frames, 60 3/8 x 89 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.
TODD GRAY: Euclidean Gris Gris
The exhibition project “Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris” activates the Pomona College Museum of Art’s largest gallery throughout the 2019/2020 academic year and consists of a site-specific wall drawing and an evolving selection of photographs from Gray’s ongoing artistic examination of the legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe. A series of monthly programs, Longing on a Large Scale, and a publication accompany the exhibition.
Kyungmi Shin, Road Blossoms, 2015, Cut & painted carbon steel, mosaic topped stools, and shaped planter surfaced with custom cut tiles and mosaic, 37'w x 15'd x 15'h
Public Art Award for Laguna Beach Project
Kyungmi Shin’s design, Road Blossoms, for the city of Laguna Beach, was awarded a Public Art Award by the Laguna Beach Beautification Council in June, 2016.
Kyungmi Shin, El Cerrito Homes, 2016,
Two porcelain mosaic murals, 28'w x 8'h
El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station murals
El Cerrito Del Norte Bart Station mural project was completed in June 2019 after two and half years of production at the studio. Installation of the first mural is scheduled for spring 2020, and the mural will be installed later part of 2020.
Learn more on the project here.
Kyungmi Shin, 人 : Human Being - Being Human, 2016, Painted steel, LED light, 14'w x 6'd x 20'h
Shin Gray Studio wins San Francisco Chinatown Project
Shin Gray Studio’s public art proposal chosen for the San Francisco Chinatown project at the former site of Kong Chow Temple in San Francisco Chinatown. The site will be an extension of St. Mary’s Square Park and is located at the border of Chinatown and San Francisco financial district.
Todd Gray, Samita, 2018, Three archival pigment prints with found and artist’s frames
Todd Gray selected for Whitney Biennial 2019
Todd Gray Among Artists Announced for the 2019 Whitney Biennial by ArtNowLA
The Whitney Museum of American Art announced Monday that seventy-five artists have been selected to present their work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, co-organized by two Whitney curators, Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley. This will be the seventy-ninth in the long-running series of exhibitions launched by the Museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in 1932. Considered the country’s foremost survey of contemporary American art, the Whitney Biennial delivers a frontline report on what’s happening in American art today. The 2019 edition will run from May 17 through September 22.
Kyungmi Shin, That Child of Fleeting Time, 2016, Stainless steel, programmed LED video screen, 30 ft x 6 ft x 15ft (WxDxH),
Kyungmi Shin’s Netflix project wins 2018 PAN Public Art Award: Year In Review.
Selected by a jury from hundreds of submissions, Public Art Award, Year In Review, annually recognizes outstanding public art projects that represent the most compelling works created in the prior calendar year.
Made in LA 2016
Todd Gray is chosen as one of the 26 artists presenting work at Made in L.A. 2016 Biennial at the UCLA Hammer Museum.