Jaedon Shin

Artist Statement: Eros in the pandemic nights During the lockdown last year, every night I watched numerous operas through online free streaming service. Mostly they were melodramas about love, desire, betrayal, revenge, death and so forth. Interestingly, watching them helped me not only to get out of the strong sense of isolation, but also to have opportunities to think deeply about ‘the self-myself’ and ‘the other’, and the relationship between them. In the daytime, I made a bunch of paintings which were eventually about Eros. I imagined a perfect erotic, noble and flawless love. The object of love is the eternal other I can never reach. ‘Eros’ is one of my paintings inspired by stories and music of the operas. Lovers float in the air like twinkling stars in night sky. They are full of desire but know they can never own ‘the other’. The music that resonates in the night sky is sweet and mysterious. Jaedon Shin, July 2021

'The Other' Acrylic on Linen 254cm x 204cm $21,000

Curriculum Vitae

Jaedon Shinouth Korea born - Melbourne based artist.

Practicing and showing in both Melbourne and Seoul

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Arts (History), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 ‘The Other World’ (ACAE Gallery, Melbourne)

2019 ‘In Between’ (Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne)

2018 ‘Two Cities’ (Ryumijae Gallery, Yangpyeong, South Korea)

2017 ‘Double Moon’ (Blackcat Gallery, Melbourne & Soso Art Museum, Hwasoon, South Korea)

2017 ‘Colourful World’ (The Lost Ones Contemporary Art Gallery, Ballarat, Australia)

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 ‘In A Foreign Land’ (E-Hive Gallery, Melbourne)

2020 ‘New Beginning’ (Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney)

2019 The 2nd ‘People’ Exhibition (Gallery Violet, Seoul)

2017 ‘The Rediscovery of the Diaspora’ (Gyeomjae Jeongseon Museum of Art, Seoul)

2017 ‘12th International Arts Workshop’ (RMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand)

2014 ‘ARS ACTIVA 2014_Arts & Their Communities’ (Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung, South Korea)

RESIDENCY

2017 Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Bangkok, Thailand

2015 Fellini Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014 Haengchon Art Museum, Imha-Island Art Studio, Haenam, South Korea

2012 ARPNY (Artist Residency Program New York), New York, USA

COLLECTIONS

ACAE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Soso Art Museum, Hwasun, South Korea

Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT), Thailand

Crittenden Estate, Melbourne, Australia

Haengchon Art Museum, Haenam, South Korea

Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand

'A Mystery Never to be Accessed' Acrylic on Linen 193.5cm x 153,5cm $12,000

'In the Mountains' Acrylic on LInen 173.5cm x 203.5cm $12,000

'Night Landing' Acrylic on Cotton 171.5cm x 171.5cm $12,000

'Listen' Acrylic on Cotton 171.ccm x 121cm $8,500

'Chasers' Oil & Acrylic on Linen 130cm x 157cm $8,300

'The Temple' Oil on Linen 127.5cm x 146cm $7,800

Eros 1 Oil on Linen 70.5cm x 96cm $3,000

'Eros 2' 74cm x 93.5cm $3,000

'Sound 1' Oil on Linen 83.5cm x 75.2cm $2,800

'Sound 2' Acrylic on Cotton 80cm x 80cm $2,900

'Ubermensch' Acrylic on Cotton 80cm x 80cm $2,900

'Distant Love'

'Eros 3' Oil on Linen 45.5cm 21cm $900

'The Agony of Eros' Acrylic on Linen 111.5cm x 203.5cm $9,500

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