Shin Sang-Ho

This is a Korean name; the family name is Shin.

Dr. Shin Sang-Ho (born 1947) is an internationally-known Korean ceramicist whose works can be found in many museums around the world. He is the former Dean, College of Fine Arts at Hong-ik University in Seoul, Korea.

Many of the living great Korean ceramicists of today resulted from the South Korean government's program in the mid-20th century to rediscover the secrets of ancient Korean celadon ceramics from the Goryeo or Koryo Dynasty, one of the pinnacles of Korean ceramic arts. After graduating from Hong-ik University in Seoul, Shin began his career by recreating this traditional blue-green celadon as well as punch'ong (buncheong) stoneware. After a brief sojourn in London as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Art (1995–1997) where he was exposed particularly to African art, he returned to Korea with an abruptly different style from the traditional work of his early years, fusing both western and eastern design in his work. The "Dream" series (1995) was one of his first exhibits to gain international recognition, and fused traditional Asian vessel shapes and punch'ong glazes decorated with abstract patterns reminiscent of Asian calligraphy or ink wash paintings. Traveling extensively around the world his later pieces have become increasingly contemporary. His "Dream of Africa" series (2002) fused primitive animal art with modern minimalism.

Currently, Shin has been developing "fired painting" tiles used as a means to apply ceramic arts to commercial architecture. His fired painting tiles were used as the exterior surface to the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea, where he is currently their Director.

Selected Collections

Shin's work is in the permanent collections of:

• The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea)
• Museum of Korea University in Seoul (Korea)
• Museum of Hong-Ik University in Seoul (Korea)
• Ho-Am Art Museum in Yong-in (Korea)
• World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi (Korea)
• Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (Japan)
• Everson Museum in Syracuse (U.S.A.)
• Victoria and Albert Museum in London (United Kingdom)
• The British Museum in London (Britain)
• Royal Ontario Museum in Ontario (Canada)
• Royal Marimont Museum in Brussels (Belgium)
• Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland (U.S.A.)
• Seattle Art Museum (U.S.A.)
• Musée national de céramique de Sèvres (The National Ceramic Museum in Sèvres) (France)

External links

• http://www.clayarch.org/ex/expop2/eng_pro.vm
• http://www.longhouse.org/exhibitions.ihtml?id=15
• http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/artist.asp?searchText=shin+sang%2Dho&tab=1&recNo=0
• http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/blog/2005/04/15/rediscovering-korean-ceramics/
• http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3402871
• http://www.loveedfinearts.com/bio_sangho.html
• http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/sang-ho-shin-71811/profile.html