Shin Sang-Ho

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.

After graduating from Hong-ik University in Seoul, Shin began his career by making 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 back 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 Jar" series (1995) was one of his first exhibits to gain international recognition, and fused traditional Asian vessel shapes and glazes decorated with abstract patterns reminiscent of asian calligraphy. 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.

elected 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)
* HOAM 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 (Britain)
* 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 Sevres) (France)

External links

* http://www.kcaf.or.kr/art500/shinsangho/emain.htm
* 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