Shin Jooeun

Jooeun Shin (b.1984) is a South Korean artist whose practice is rooted in traditional Korean painting techniques and materials. Working primarily with ink, burned linen, collage, and mounting processes, she explores themes of combustion, erosion, breath, and emotional residue.

Her works often depict fragmented hands, smoke, scorched surfaces, and traces of repetitive gestures. Through burning, layering, tearing, and reconstructing materials, she transforms physical surfaces into psychological landscapes that reflect tension between destruction and restoration.

While her earlier works drew from personal narratives and symbolic imagery such as camellias, her recent practice has evolved into a more experimental visual language combining traditional Korean material processes with contemporary abstract and figurative forms.

Shin’s work examines unstable emotional states, human desire, exhaustion, and the fragile boundary between holding on and letting go.

2010, BFA, Oriental painting, Duksung women's university.
2020, MFA, Oriental Painting, Korea university, Art&design.

SOLO EXHIBITION
2026 "RESPIRE", S.ONE Project Gallery in Seoul
2021 "Shade of the Void" , S Factory in Seoul
2019 "盡 紅 [Scarlet]" , Artreon Gallery in Seoul
2015 “꽃이 떨어지기 시작할 때”, Banjul in Seoul
2012 “火 花”, Gallery Palais de seoul, Seoul


GROUP EXHIBITION
Participated in over 20 group exhibitions.