Young Shin

Young Shin is a Los Angeles–based artist whose studio practice extends between Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin, working primarily with paper through processes of folding, tearing, layering, sanding, weaving, and compression. Her practice examines the tension between control and release—how material can be shaped with intention until it inevitably shifts, resists, or moves beyond the hand. Through these gestures, surfaces emerge with a quiet, topographic presence, holding fragility and resilience in equal measure and inviting the viewer into a space where restraint and surrender coexist.

Influenced by the quiet rigor of postwar abstraction and informed by her background in fashion design, Young approaches material with a sensitivity to structure, drape, and the nuanced behavior of fiber under pressure. Paper’s dual nature—delicate yet assertive, pliable yet irrevocably set once formed—anchors her practice both formally and conceptually, allowing process to function as both method and metaphor.

Her work is held in private, corporate, and hospitality collections internationally, including the Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt, Autograph Collection Hotels, UCSF Medical Center, Wells Fargo, Four Seasons, luxury spas and resorts, law firms, and ...

Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, Fashion Studies

Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, IL, J.D.

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, B.A.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Bright Rupture: Works from the Rift Series, Alhambra City Hall, Alhambra, CA (forthcoming)
2024 — Eclipsed by Convention, Art Yourself Atelier (online)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Summer Exhibition 2026, Francis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2026 — Unbound, K & K Gallery, Culver City, CA
2026 — Simulacrum, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2026 — 14th Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2024 — Seeking Light, The Scholar Selection, San Gabriel, CA
2024 — California Dreaming, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
2022 — Artists in the Archives, Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, VT
2020 — Minimalism, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2020 — Get the Message: Words and Images, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2019 — Form and Function: Fiber Arts for the 21st Century, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
2019 — Craft Revolution, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2019 — Double Yellow, Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 — Interplay: Craft, Art & Design, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA