NEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is presenting its “Summer Exhibition,” an expansive group show featuring over forty artists, ranging from canonical figures to emerging contemporary talent. This exhibition is not merely a survey of disparate works, but rather an intentional convergence of artistic voices, each shaped by distinct cultural, historical, and personal experiences. The show explores the potential of proximity: how artworks, when placed in dialogue, can transcend their contexts and forge new, unexpected relationships across time, identity, and medium.
The artists featured in the exhibition represent a diverse range of backgrounds, ethnicities, gender expressions, and sexual identities. Their works reflect a multiplicity of perspectives, some rooted in tradition, others radically experimental; yet all contribute to an overarching narrative of aesthetic and conceptual diversity. Installed without hierarchical order, the artworks resist linear interpretation and instead invite viewers to move through the space intuitively, making connections that are both formal and thematic, personal and political.
Much like a quilt, each piece serves as a distinct patch, autonomous in its visual language, yet made more powerful through its juxtaposition with neighboring works. As these fragments accumulate, they build a visual and philosophical tapestry that examines the evolving nature of human expression. This cumulative storytelling functions as a universal language: one that speaks to the complexities of identity, the elasticity of meaning, and the ever-shifting boundaries of what art can be.
Ultimately, the “Summer Exhibition” is a celebration of contrast, coexistence, and the profound beauty found in ambiguity. In a cultural moment often defined by division, this show affirms the enduring capacity of art to bridge differences, not by erasing them, but by illuminating them. It is an invitation to embrace the unfamiliar, to unlearn what we think we know, and to encounter, in the process, something deeply human.
Artists include: Andreas Emenius, Elaine de Kooning, Peyton Freiman, Francine Tint, Kool Koor, Paul Jenkins, Georges Rouault, Amazonian Native Drawing, Marisol, Henry Moore, Carmelo de Arzadun, James Castle, Gerda Wegener, Henry Scott Tuke, Congo, Keunmin Lee, Mel Arzamarski, Adelisa Selimbašić, Konrad Żukowski, Purvis Young, Heinz Mack, Elisa Martins da Silveira, Mia Goldstein, André Derain, James McNeill Whistler, Alex Katz, Pol Morton, Anna Ting Möller, Richard Tuttle, Hawkins Bolden, Ted Stamm, Sherrie Levine, Choong Sup Lim, Kansuke Yamamoto, Natalia LL, Alma Lavenson, Mon Levinson, Sophie Calle, Em Rooney, Martin Kippenberger, Alannah Farrell, Sarah Davidson, Dawei Wang, Brittany Miller.
