“It’s not text that I paint. I paint error. Because error is what makes us human.”
Jaeho Shin (b. 1988, Seoul, South Korea) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice interrogates the intersections of logic, error, and human perception in the age of digital and AI. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography, Shin challenges rational structures by deliberately embracing the accidental and the illogical. His work explores the fragmentation of human values in the digital age, examining how technological mediation alters our understanding of self and reality.
By incorporating preexisting materials and unconventional processes — such as using an anti-climb metal fence panel instead of a canvas frame, or extracting meaning from text and transforming it into an image — Shin disrupts traditional artistic conventions, creating compositions that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. His unorthodox, highly experimental approach is rooted in a deep concern for the social, political, and existential conditions of contemporary life, using error as a means to expose the fallibility and subjectivity inherent in human experience and underscore the importance of humanity.
Education
2022 - 2024 M.F.A., Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
2014 - 2016 M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea.
2007 - 2014 B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Don’t Change the Color of Your Hair, Art Space At, Seoul, South Korea.
2020 Metamorphosis, Cyart Space, Seoul, South Korea.
Selected Group Exhibitions / Presentations
2025 Apparatus 1, Art Hub Gallery, London, UK.
2025 Abstract Mind 2025, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2025 The Graduate Art Show, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, UK.
2024 Somewhere Elsewhere, Lewisham Art House, London, UK.
2024 ART021 Shanghai, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China.
2024 Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn, Evolution London, London, UK.
2024 Playground, The Handbag Factory, London, UK.
2024 GUM (Give Us More), The Handbag Factory, London, UK.
2024 Prelude in Asylum, Asylum Chapel, London UK.
2024 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
2024 Unforeseeable Senses, Crypt Gallery, London, UK.
2023 Goldsmiths Interim Show, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
2023 Circle in the Square, No Format Gallery, London, UK.
2023 Hold On, Goldsmiths MFA Studios Seminar Room, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
2023 Taste the Difference Part 2, Hypha Studios Stratford, London, UK.
2023 Taste the Difference Part 1, Hypha Studios Stratford, London, UK.
2022 Color 2022, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2021 ArtPrize Gangnam, Champions Lounge, Nonhyeon Furniture Street, Seoul, South Korea.
2021 Color 2021, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2021 New Thinking New Art 2021, LeeSeoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2021 ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival), Hongik Museum of Art, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea.
2020 Morak-morak Project A, Gallery iLHO, Seoul, South Korea.
2020 ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival), Hongik Museum of Art, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea.
2020 The 3rd New Thinking New Art, Gallery Violet, Seoul, South Korea.
2019 Hanbok and I, The Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
2019 Hagyomány és divat, Korean Cultural Center Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
Awards
2021 New Thinking New Art Prize, LeeSeoul Gallery, South Korea.
2020 Cyart Document Competition Award, Cyart Document & Cyart Gallery, South Korea.
Public Collection
2019 Korean Cultural Center Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
Selected Press
2022 THE ISSUE Magazine August 2022 Issue, South Korea. - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WSOeku0HQk1X-k6u8XEkBCu1JHWI765g?usp=sharing
2022 Edaily Newspaper, South Korea. - https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=01105366632394520&mediaCodeNo=257&OutLnkChk=Y
2022 Handmaker Newspaper, South Korea. - http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12816
2022 Sports W Newspaper, South Korea - https://www.sportsw.kr/news/newsview.php?ncode=1065595313156265
2022 K Spirit Newspaper, South Korea. - http://www.ikoreanspirit.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=68097
2020 Edaily Newspaper, South Korea. - https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=01193926625768264&mediaCodeNo=257
2020 CULTURA Magazine May 2020 Issue, South Korea. - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g0l_cKuEf4Ia2O5QPivaqJG5buBUUhRL?usp=sharing
2020 Jungdo-ilbo Newspaper, South Korea. - http://www.joongdo.co.kr/web/view.php?key=20200511010002993