Shinyoung An

ShinYoung was born in South Korea and came to the U.S. in 1995. She received 33 awards in painting, including the 2024 and 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, partnered with the Mid-Atlantic Arts, the 2018 Spring Residency Program of the ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, the Best of Show & Award of Merit of 2004 from the Heartland Exhibition of the City of Merriam in Kansas, and the Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art from Allied Artists of America in 2002 & 2008, etc.

In 2003, while traveling with a Xavier Gonzalez & Edwards grant from the Art Students League of NY, she joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, Spain.

Her art has been shown at selected and invited exhibitions, mostly in public spaces, in over 120 groups, nine solo, and two two-person exhibitions throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea.

1999 - 2001 M.F.A., New York Academy of Art

2001-2005/1996~1999 Art Students League of New York

1982–1986 B.F.A. in Fine Art, Hyosung Women's University of Daegu, South Korea

Solo show:
"A Brush with Reality: The Mundane and Disturbing but with Hope" at Hutchings Galleries, Sept. 1 ~ October 7.

Past Group Exhibition:
June 25, 22 - April 30, 23 "Reemergence," the 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual, at the New Jersey State Museum.

My work has been shown at exhibitions (8 solo, two-person, and 130 groups) throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea since arriving in the U.S. in 1995.

I have had solo exhibitions at the following venues:
2017 1351 Amsterdam Ave., supported by Chashama, NY
2017: The Belske Art Wall, Closter Public Library, NJ
2014: The Bergen Performing Arts Center, NJ
2013: The Azarian McCullough Art Gallery of St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY
2010: The M. Christina Geis Gallery of Georgian Court University, NJ
2009 The Monmouth Museum, NJ
2007 The Greenwich Cafe Gallery in Greenwich Village, NY
2004 The La Bolsa Cafe Gallery in Barcelona, Spain

Two-person exhibitions: 2015 "Journey" - The Stockton Art Gallery/The Richard Stockton University, NJ ...