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Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Yoon Sun Shin received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. Since his graduation, Yoon Sun has exhibited at local galleries such as Flip gallery, Maryland Art Place, Resort Gallery, and VisArts. Being an active skateboarder since the age of 6, it has provided him a language of interpretation to architecture, acclamation to his adolescence, and the ambitious means to discover. Recently, he has been busy preparing for his first solo show at The Alchemy of Arts Gallery, opening in the winter of 2021. Yoon Sun currently has a studio at Resort Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.

While concentrating on figurative painting and sculpture, I have been using these disciplines to document occurring events. In these recent works I have been reflecting on the often perverse occurrences that have so far characterized my life, seeking a space of playfulness through the depiction of absurdities. For example, getting pulled over while hotboxing a car, the weird strip games you’d play when you were young, and falling in love with someone that you naturally grow apart from. What makes these events unique is the fact that they are painted, but I assure you, they are not foreign. I moved to the states at 3 years old from the city of Incheon. It was breathtaking from what I can remember, but western culture has embedded this work. I didn’t learn english in school, it began through watching television, until I made friends, and as I made new friends, their stories. Whether it was about home life, or a grand vacation, It was a speech based learning experience.