Short Biography:
Ms. An, a Korean-American, obtained her B.F.A. from Hyosung Women’s University, Daegu, South Korea. She came to the U.S. to further her studies in 1995 and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1996. In 2001, she received her M.F.A. from the Graduate of the Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art. While traveling with a Xavier Gonzalez & Edward grant from the Art Students League of New York, she joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, Spain, in 2003.
Over the years, she has received 33 awards in painting, including the 2024 and 2011 individual fellowship grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in partnership with Mid-Atlantic Arts, Best of Show 2004 from the Heartland Exhibition in Merriam, Kansas, and the Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art from Allied Artists of America in 2002 & 2008, etc.
Her art has been shown at selected and invited exhibitions, mostly in public spaces, in over 120 groups, nine solo, and two two-person exhibitions throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea. Her artwork has been featured in over 50 critical articles globally, including her Face series, titled "Winds of Hope," which was featured in Creator.VICE in 2017, etc. She was invited to be one of the 100 Greatest Women Artists in 2020 and the figurative artist of New Jersey by "Figure 50," etc.
Awards and Grants:
2024 The Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
2018 The Spring Residency Program of the ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ.
2011 The Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
2010 6th Artslant Showcase Juried Winner
2009 Third Place Award-Art Kudos International Exhibition www.artkudos.com/2009/558_1.html
2008 Len G. Everett Memorial Award—95th Annual Exhibition-the Allied Artists of America, Inc (NY)
Colonel George J. Morales Memorial Award, 80th of the American Artists Professional League (NY)
Colonel George J. Morales Memorial Award-112th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art club (NY)
Honorable Mention Award in Figure & Portrait Category, December 2008 Issue of The Artist’s Magazine
Honorable Mention in the Faces of Winter-Bendheim Gallery-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists (CT)
Marsha Holst Memorial Award-28th Annual Juried Exhibition-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2007 Dorothy Barberies Memorial Award, 11th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art club (NY)
Art Students League Award-65th Audubon Artists Inc. Salmagundi Club (NY)
The Art Students League Award-76th Annual Exhibition of Hudson Valley Art Association (NY)
Honorable Mention-Ellarslie Open XXV Trenton City Museum, Trenton (NJ)
Honorable Mention & Merit Awards-Faces of Spring 07-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists (CT)
2006 Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal Award-110th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc (NY)
Merit Award, Faces of Winter 06-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists & Bendheim Gallery (CT)
Jerry’s Artarama Gift Certificate Award-26th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2005 Best of Show for Focus on the Figure, Hopper House (NY)
The Nancy Sloan Scholarship-the Art Students League of NY
Best of New York Artists & Artisans 2005, Third place, Kennedy Promotions
The Hudson Valley Art Association Award for the 25th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2004 The American Artists Fund Award, 26th American Artists Professional League (NY)
The Winsor & Newton Materials Award-Audubon Artists (NY)
Third Place for Oils/Acrylics, The New Rochelle Art Association (NY)
Best of Show & Award of Merit-Hartland Artist Exhibition-City of Merriam (Kansas)
The Moshe Bahiri Award, 24th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2003 Xavier Gonzalez & Ethel Edwards Grant: 9 months Travel and Study in Spain-The Art Students League of NY.
Juror’s Second Place Award-Halpert Biennial-Turchin Center of Visual Arts, Appalachian State University (NC)
Award of Excellence: Healing Power of Art-Manhattan Art International (NY)
2002 Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art-Allied Artists of America, Inc (NY)
1999-2001 Merit Scholarships from Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art (NY)
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Sept. 1 - Oct. 7 A Brush with Reality/The Mundane & Disturbing but with Hope: the Hutchins Galleries, Lawrenceville School, NJ
2017 Apr. 2 - 30 Winds of Hope: 1351 Amsterdam Ave., provided by Chashama.org, NY
Mar. 1 - Apr. 30 Encouraging Impact: BELSKE ART Wall, Closter Public Library, Closter, NJ
2014 Sep. 4 - 30 Passion for Truth & Beauty: The Intermezzo Gallery in the Bergen Performing Arts Center, NJ 2013 Feb. 25 - Mar. 24 Winds of Change: Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY
2010 Feb 1 - 26 Reflections: The M. Christina Geis Gallery at Georgian Court University, NJ
2009 Jul. 10 - Aug. 9 NJ Emerging Artists Series/Oil Paintings: The Monmouth Museum, NJ
2007 May 1 - July 31 Figure with River View: The Greenwich Cafe Gallery in Greenwich Village, NY
2004 Mar. 20 - Apr. 19 ShinYoung An's New Paintings: La Bolsa Cafe Gallery in Barcelona, Spain
Invitational Two-Person Exhibitions:
2015 Jan 20 - Mar 28 Journey: The Stockton Art Gallery of Richard Stockton University, NJ
2011 May 2 - 26 Facing Reality: The Intermezzo Gallery at the Bergen Performing Art Center in Englewood, NJ
Group Exhibitions:
She has also participated in more than 120 invitational and selected group exhibitions throughout the USA, Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea since arriving in the U.S. in 1995. These would include:
The New Jersey State Museum
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ
The George Segal Gallery at Montclair University, NJ
The Stockton Art Gallery at Richard Stockton University, NJ
The Noyes Museum, NJ
The Kupferberg Holocaust Museum, NY
The Monmouth Museum, NJ
The Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Trenton City Museum, NJ
The Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center, NY
Publications (News Links & Interviews):
2023 The News From The Notch magazine, the Arts in Our Community: An Artist Among Us by Fred Levine
2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence: the digital exhibition catalog by the New Jersey State Museum
2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: Revision & Respond exhibition catalog by the Newark Museum of Art
2020 100 greatest women artists of all time... So Far by Thomas Arthur Smith, June 26
2017 ON ART AND AESTHETICS Exploring creativity and beauty across different media. Scholarly and journalistic.
Lushly illustrated. Passionately global. Published by TULIKA B. London
The Face series, Winds of Hope, is featured in Creator.VICE, published by Diana Shi. NY
2015 July 24 News sitters ShinYoung An buff.ly/1VDK9UL by Mila Abbey/Jose L. College, Rome, Italy
Enlarged the Screen Featured in 60Americans.com by Noah Becker, Terrence Sanders & Alexander Venet
Interview: http://m-u-s-e-u-m.org/shinyoung-an/ by Shabnam Piryaei
Interview: https://thenewspro.org/?p=10648 NewsPro
2014 Live Interview: TBS eFM, Korea's leading English-only radio station, S. Korea
NewsPro - September 17 http://thenewspro.org/?p=7424
featured in the New This Week 7-14-2014 Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage by Rebecca Wilson.
Art2day http://www.art2day.co.uk/artist-search.html, face series of Shin-Young An's work, Keywords: Media-
Newspaper-Portrait-Shock-Power-Women-Social Issues-Narrative-Imagination by Jamie Rogers, Croydon, UK
2013 Peeling Garlic is visible on figure50.com and represents the figure artist of the New Jersey State of US 9/25/13.
Invited for The first edition of Women in Art, Volume 1, features 512 Great female artists and their works from ancient times
-The earliest work dates back to 1100 and the Middle Ages to the present, published on March 15 by Oliver Fuchs, Austria
Interview: Theartzine.WordPress 3/6/13 by Pittrotelli, Italy
DropYourArt & Winds of Change, published on Feb 24, by Gemengde technieken, Olieverf, Amsterdam, Dutch
2012 12/12/the-printed-word-by-shin-young-an/ By Hyathiz on December 29, in Concept Art
www.junk-culture.com newspaper-art-by-shin-young Posted by Junkculture Tuesday, August 28
junglegymmagazine- newspaper-art-by-shin-young-an/ Aug 2
Interview: Lodown Magazine December 2012 issue by Sven Fortmann in Berlin, Germany
Interview: Empty Kingdom October 12, 2012, posted by the Blind Architect
Interview: The Raw Book November 1, 2012, by Alicia Chon
designalmic.com Posted by Designalmic in Editor's Picks. Paintings
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grantees' Exhibition: The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton College
Spanish Press sinembargo.mx By: Editorial / HOWEVER, September 1, 2012, Spain
Art gallery: Hyper-Realism Painting posted on September 1, 2012, by NAVER blog, S. Korea
juxtapoz.com Daily Life painted by Shin-Young An posted online Sunday, August 26, 2012
England Press Emptykingdom By Konahrtist, August 25, 2012
flavorwire Intriguing Photo-realistic Paintings on Newspapers by Caroline Stanley. Posted on Aug 31, 2012
APP (Asbury Park Press), Beyond the printed word, Aug 16, 2012, written by Marie Naples Maber, NJ
NewsKann-Korean American New York-New Jersey on 12-03-18 by Minho Lee
http://www.sinembargo.mx/01-09-2012/352372#comment-128746
2011 KoreaDaily New York Newspaper on Monday, 7. 11.11
AANYAA Blogspot Posted by New York Academy of Art, July 1, 2011
2010 Village Voice by Robert Shuster, February 20
2009 Independent News: Emerging Artist, Shin-Young An, July 23rd, NJ
Women Paintings of Women The Expedition & Beyond Friday, November 20 by ALIA EL-BERMANI
The Tribeca Trib, July/August edition: Clipping the Last Fingernail Art for the Art School's Sake,
- The New York Academy of Art's annual summer show
2008 Allied Artists of America: 95th Award winner of the Len G. Everett Memorial Award-Tied
2008 Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, www.juxtapoz.com, November 6th
The Artist’s Magazine: December Issue, The Best Art of 2008, Honorable Mention Award for Self-Portrait-Tied in Portrait/Figure Category
2007 Audubon Award Winner of Graphics and Work Image: Man with Crossed Arms
The Trenton Times, Arts & Leisure, The Best of The Best, April 29, Clipping the Third Fingernail
"Blossom: The Art of Flowers” Published by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation.
2006 “Best of New York Artists & Artisans 2006” Published by Kennedy Promotions, edited by Adam P. Kennedy and Renee Kennedy
2005 An Invitational Artist for the art book “El Retarto,” published by Idea Books in Barcelona, Spain
2004 2003 Grant & Scholarship Recipients on Linea, vol. 8, Journal of the Art Students League of NY
“Gallery of Korean” on the Monthly Korean Magazine for the January issue
Ms. An, a Korean-American, obtained her B.F.A. from Hyosung Women’s University, Daegu, South Korea. She came to the U.S. to further her studies in 1995 and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1996. In 2001, she received her M.F.A. from the Graduate of the Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art. While traveling with a Xavier Gonzalez & Edward grant from the Art Students League of New York, she joined the Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona, Spain, in 2003.
Over the years, she has received 33 awards in painting, including the 2024 and 2011 individual fellowship grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in partnership with Mid-Atlantic Arts, Best of Show 2004 from the Heartland Exhibition in Merriam, Kansas, and the Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art from Allied Artists of America in 2002 & 2008, etc.
Her art has been shown at selected and invited exhibitions, mostly in public spaces, in over 120 groups, nine solo, and two two-person exhibitions throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea. Her artwork has been featured in over 50 critical articles globally, including her Face series, titled "Winds of Hope," which was featured in Creator.VICE in 2017, etc. She was invited to be one of the 100 Greatest Women Artists in 2020 and the figurative artist of New Jersey by "Figure 50," etc.
Awards and Grants:
2024 The Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
2018 The Spring Residency Program of the ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ.
2011 The Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
2010 6th Artslant Showcase Juried Winner
2009 Third Place Award-Art Kudos International Exhibition www.artkudos.com/2009/558_1.html
2008 Len G. Everett Memorial Award—95th Annual Exhibition-the Allied Artists of America, Inc (NY)
Colonel George J. Morales Memorial Award, 80th of the American Artists Professional League (NY)
Colonel George J. Morales Memorial Award-112th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art club (NY)
Honorable Mention Award in Figure & Portrait Category, December 2008 Issue of The Artist’s Magazine
Honorable Mention in the Faces of Winter-Bendheim Gallery-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists (CT)
Marsha Holst Memorial Award-28th Annual Juried Exhibition-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2007 Dorothy Barberies Memorial Award, 11th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art club (NY)
Art Students League Award-65th Audubon Artists Inc. Salmagundi Club (NY)
The Art Students League Award-76th Annual Exhibition of Hudson Valley Art Association (NY)
Honorable Mention-Ellarslie Open XXV Trenton City Museum, Trenton (NJ)
Honorable Mention & Merit Awards-Faces of Spring 07-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists (CT)
2006 Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal Award-110th Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc (NY)
Merit Award, Faces of Winter 06-Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists & Bendheim Gallery (CT)
Jerry’s Artarama Gift Certificate Award-26th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2005 Best of Show for Focus on the Figure, Hopper House (NY)
The Nancy Sloan Scholarship-the Art Students League of NY
Best of New York Artists & Artisans 2005, Third place, Kennedy Promotions
The Hudson Valley Art Association Award for the 25th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2004 The American Artists Fund Award, 26th American Artists Professional League (NY)
The Winsor & Newton Materials Award-Audubon Artists (NY)
Third Place for Oils/Acrylics, The New Rochelle Art Association (NY)
Best of Show & Award of Merit-Hartland Artist Exhibition-City of Merriam (Kansas)
The Moshe Bahiri Award, 24th Juried Show-Ridgewood Art Institute (NJ)
2003 Xavier Gonzalez & Ethel Edwards Grant: 9 months Travel and Study in Spain-The Art Students League of NY.
Juror’s Second Place Award-Halpert Biennial-Turchin Center of Visual Arts, Appalachian State University (NC)
Award of Excellence: Healing Power of Art-Manhattan Art International (NY)
2002 Len G. Everett Memorial Award for the Advancement of American Art-Allied Artists of America, Inc (NY)
1999-2001 Merit Scholarships from Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art (NY)
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Sept. 1 - Oct. 7 A Brush with Reality/The Mundane & Disturbing but with Hope: the Hutchins Galleries, Lawrenceville School, NJ
2017 Apr. 2 - 30 Winds of Hope: 1351 Amsterdam Ave., provided by Chashama.org, NY
Mar. 1 - Apr. 30 Encouraging Impact: BELSKE ART Wall, Closter Public Library, Closter, NJ
2014 Sep. 4 - 30 Passion for Truth & Beauty: The Intermezzo Gallery in the Bergen Performing Arts Center, NJ 2013 Feb. 25 - Mar. 24 Winds of Change: Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY
2010 Feb 1 - 26 Reflections: The M. Christina Geis Gallery at Georgian Court University, NJ
2009 Jul. 10 - Aug. 9 NJ Emerging Artists Series/Oil Paintings: The Monmouth Museum, NJ
2007 May 1 - July 31 Figure with River View: The Greenwich Cafe Gallery in Greenwich Village, NY
2004 Mar. 20 - Apr. 19 ShinYoung An's New Paintings: La Bolsa Cafe Gallery in Barcelona, Spain
Invitational Two-Person Exhibitions:
2015 Jan 20 - Mar 28 Journey: The Stockton Art Gallery of Richard Stockton University, NJ
2011 May 2 - 26 Facing Reality: The Intermezzo Gallery at the Bergen Performing Art Center in Englewood, NJ
Group Exhibitions:
She has also participated in more than 120 invitational and selected group exhibitions throughout the USA, Italy, Spain, Japan, and South Korea since arriving in the U.S. in 1995. These would include:
The New Jersey State Museum
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ
The George Segal Gallery at Montclair University, NJ
The Stockton Art Gallery at Richard Stockton University, NJ
The Noyes Museum, NJ
The Kupferberg Holocaust Museum, NY
The Monmouth Museum, NJ
The Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Trenton City Museum, NJ
The Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center, NY
Publications (News Links & Interviews):
2023 The News From The Notch magazine, the Arts in Our Community: An Artist Among Us by Fred Levine
2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence: the digital exhibition catalog by the New Jersey State Museum
2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: Revision & Respond exhibition catalog by the Newark Museum of Art
2020 100 greatest women artists of all time... So Far by Thomas Arthur Smith, June 26
2017 ON ART AND AESTHETICS Exploring creativity and beauty across different media. Scholarly and journalistic.
Lushly illustrated. Passionately global. Published by TULIKA B. London
The Face series, Winds of Hope, is featured in Creator.VICE, published by Diana Shi. NY
2015 July 24 News sitters ShinYoung An buff.ly/1VDK9UL by Mila Abbey/Jose L. College, Rome, Italy
Enlarged the Screen Featured in 60Americans.com by Noah Becker, Terrence Sanders & Alexander Venet
Interview: http://m-u-s-e-u-m.org/shinyoung-an/ by Shabnam Piryaei
Interview: https://thenewspro.org/?p=10648 NewsPro
2014 Live Interview: TBS eFM, Korea's leading English-only radio station, S. Korea
NewsPro - September 17 http://thenewspro.org/?p=7424
featured in the New This Week 7-14-2014 Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage by Rebecca Wilson.
Art2day http://www.art2day.co.uk/artist-search.html, face series of Shin-Young An's work, Keywords: Media-
Newspaper-Portrait-Shock-Power-Women-Social Issues-Narrative-Imagination by Jamie Rogers, Croydon, UK
2013 Peeling Garlic is visible on figure50.com and represents the figure artist of the New Jersey State of US 9/25/13.
Invited for The first edition of Women in Art, Volume 1, features 512 Great female artists and their works from ancient times
-The earliest work dates back to 1100 and the Middle Ages to the present, published on March 15 by Oliver Fuchs, Austria
Interview: Theartzine.WordPress 3/6/13 by Pittrotelli, Italy
DropYourArt & Winds of Change, published on Feb 24, by Gemengde technieken, Olieverf, Amsterdam, Dutch
2012 12/12/the-printed-word-by-shin-young-an/ By Hyathiz on December 29, in Concept Art
www.junk-culture.com newspaper-art-by-shin-young Posted by Junkculture Tuesday, August 28
junglegymmagazine- newspaper-art-by-shin-young-an/ Aug 2
Interview: Lodown Magazine December 2012 issue by Sven Fortmann in Berlin, Germany
Interview: Empty Kingdom October 12, 2012, posted by the Blind Architect
Interview: The Raw Book November 1, 2012, by Alicia Chon
designalmic.com Posted by Designalmic in Editor's Picks. Paintings
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grantees' Exhibition: The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton College
Spanish Press sinembargo.mx By: Editorial / HOWEVER, September 1, 2012, Spain
Art gallery: Hyper-Realism Painting posted on September 1, 2012, by NAVER blog, S. Korea
juxtapoz.com Daily Life painted by Shin-Young An posted online Sunday, August 26, 2012
England Press Emptykingdom By Konahrtist, August 25, 2012
flavorwire Intriguing Photo-realistic Paintings on Newspapers by Caroline Stanley. Posted on Aug 31, 2012
APP (Asbury Park Press), Beyond the printed word, Aug 16, 2012, written by Marie Naples Maber, NJ
NewsKann-Korean American New York-New Jersey on 12-03-18 by Minho Lee
http://www.sinembargo.mx/01-09-2012/352372#comment-128746
2011 KoreaDaily New York Newspaper on Monday, 7. 11.11
AANYAA Blogspot Posted by New York Academy of Art, July 1, 2011
2010 Village Voice by Robert Shuster, February 20
2009 Independent News: Emerging Artist, Shin-Young An, July 23rd, NJ
Women Paintings of Women The Expedition & Beyond Friday, November 20 by ALIA EL-BERMANI
The Tribeca Trib, July/August edition: Clipping the Last Fingernail Art for the Art School's Sake,
- The New York Academy of Art's annual summer show
2008 Allied Artists of America: 95th Award winner of the Len G. Everett Memorial Award-Tied
2008 Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, www.juxtapoz.com, November 6th
The Artist’s Magazine: December Issue, The Best Art of 2008, Honorable Mention Award for Self-Portrait-Tied in Portrait/Figure Category
2007 Audubon Award Winner of Graphics and Work Image: Man with Crossed Arms
The Trenton Times, Arts & Leisure, The Best of The Best, April 29, Clipping the Third Fingernail
"Blossom: The Art of Flowers” Published by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation.
2006 “Best of New York Artists & Artisans 2006” Published by Kennedy Promotions, edited by Adam P. Kennedy and Renee Kennedy
2005 An Invitational Artist for the art book “El Retarto,” published by Idea Books in Barcelona, Spain
2004 2003 Grant & Scholarship Recipients on Linea, vol. 8, Journal of the Art Students League of NY
“Gallery of Korean” on the Monthly Korean Magazine for the January issue
