Photo by Brynley Odu Davies

 

“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, 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