Sin Park South Korean, b. 1987
Sin Park (b. 1987) is a visual artist and PhD candidate in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. She completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art 2017, and a BFA in Painting from Ewha Womans University 2007. Her recent works were featured in group shows including; RSA Annual Show, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, 2020, Elephant Lab London, 2020, Virtues of the Real/ Necessity of the Imaginary, The Art Space Glasgow 2019, Flourish award, Spike Print Studio, Bristol 2019 and PR1 Gallery at the university of central Lancashire, Preston 2018, Nature, ARNA, Harlösa, 2018, Skip-Ad; Play, Savoy Center, Glasgow 2018, Odyssey, Summerhall, Edinburgh 2018, One summer night, Crypt Gallery, London 2017, The Arrival, Square Gallery, London 2017, The Abstraction of Continents and The Continent of Abstraction, Lychee One, London 2016, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London 2016, Shadow, Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield 2016. Park was awarded the RK Burt&co.; West Yorkshire 2018. She was also shortlisted in The Hopper Prize 2019, the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018, the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award 2016, and The Lichfield Prize 2016. She participated in residencies including Elephant Lab2020, Aucart Lab London 2019, Summerhouse Dusseldorf 2018 and ARNA Harlösa 2018.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am interested in notions of memory and not-knowing as methods for approaching painting. Critical to this thinking are predetermined actions set against the potential of active eruptions of moments at which the activity stretches into a space that is not-known, where actions are affected by the activity of painting. Momentary gestural action delivers a timeless desire that becomes one with another, sought within an instant through intuition and improvisation. The sensory apparatus makes this possible, makes textural surface and surface of emotional sense an extended moment of absolute proximity and distance, all at once. Within this method, I utilise motifs as a precursor to the indeterminable, through which the real, or that is to say reflections of the real, become entangled within abstract environments embedded within the surface. This all happens through the activity of painting and constructs a liberated space of complexity; I would determine this as a space of familiar unfamiliarity.
EDUCATION
2017 -
PhD in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
2015 - 2017
MA in Painting, Royal College of Art
2007 - 2012
BA in History of Art, College of Liberal Art
B.F.A in Painting, College of Art & Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Virtues of Real/ Necessity of Imaginary, The Art Space, Glasgow, 2019
To each his own, Sedec Art Gallery, Seoul, 2014
Look at You, Space 15th, Seoul , 2012
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
2019
Crocodile Tears, Greenpoint Open Studios 2019, New York
Bath Open Art Prize 2019, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 44AD Artspace, Bath
Aucart LAB, 189 Gloucester Place, London
Flourish award 2018 tour, Spike Print Studio, Bristol
2018
Flourish award 2018 tour, PR1Gallery at the university of central Lancashire, Preston
U-Star, Albereta Relais & Chateaux, Milan
Flourish award 2018, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
Summerhouse, Lindenbecker Weg, Düsseldorf, Germany
ARNA opening studio, Harlösa, Sweden
Skip-Ad; Play, Savoy Center, Glasgow
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018 Shortlist Show, Ashurst LLP, London
No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory Gallery, Glasgow
Odysseys (SYN Festival Edinburgh), Summerhall, Edinburgh
2017
Biophilia, KI Europe, London
One summer night, Crypt Gallery, London
RCA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
The Arrival, Square Gallery, London
Under the see, Crypt Gallery, London
2016
The Abstraction of Continents and The Continent of Abstraction, Lychee One, London
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
Lost in the woods, Square Gallery, London
Cityscape, Contemporary Art Gallery, United States
Shadow(Lichfield Festival), Lichfield Cathedral(Emporium Art gallery), Lichfield
Nothing To See Here, Square gallery, London
Fine Art Work-In-Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London
2013
Noticeable Works, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
Pyongyang Residency, Space 15th, Seoul
Triangle Art Festival, The East Monsters, Hongik University, Seoul
2012
2037 Residency in Pyongyang, Art Factory Project, Janghang
Group Show, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
2011
Reflected World, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2010
Combat, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
AWARDs
Hopper Prize 2019 (Finalist)
Bath Open Art Prize 2019 (Finalist)
Flourish Award 2018, RK Burt&co.; Prize, West Yorkshire, UK (Awardee)
Summerhouse2018, Düsseldorf, Germany (Awardee)
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018, London, UK (Shortlisted)
New Contemporaries 2018, London, UK (Shortlisted)
Solo Award 2017, London (Longlisted)
Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award 2016, London (Shortlisted)
The Lichfield Prize 2016, Emporium Art gallery, Lichfield (Finalist)
Noticeable Works Award 2013, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (Awardee)
ARTIST TALK & TEACHING
Artist Talk, Sotheby’s institute of Art, 2019
Visiting Artist, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2019
Artist Talk, Glasgow School of Art, 2019
Visiting Artist, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, 2017
RESIDENCIES
Elephant Lab, Colart, 2020, London
Aucart Residency Lab 2019, London
Summer House2018, Düsseldorf, Germany
ARNA Residency House 2019, Harlösa, Sweden
PUBLICATIONS
‘Sin Park’, FOA Volume 9 (USA: FOA Magazine, May 28, 2019), p102-105
‘Sin Park’, Artmaze Mag, Spring issue 12 (London: ArtMaze Magazine, May 8, 2019)
WOTISART #24, March 2019, p7-8
5 Abstract painters to watch, Artpiq Blog, 2018
https://artpiq.net/blogs/news/5-abstract-painters-to-watch
ArticulAction, Special Issue, 2017
https://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_special_is/152
COLLECTIONS
HSBC Collection (London)
Private collections in UK, Germany, Sweden and South Korea