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HEJI SHIN

HEJI SHIN

b. 1976, South Korea
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Heji Shin Biography

Heji Shin is a Korean-German photographer living and working between New York and Berlin. Shin took up photography after receiving a camera for her 20th birthday. Shin’s often provocative work has featured everything from child-birth to monkeys, pigs and roosters. Heji has exhibited globally in both group and solo shows, and has published several photo-books.

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'I don't really live in a headspace where I have to gauge the public perception of a subject before I allow myself to be genuinely interested.'
Heji Shin's Reclining Nude Pigs at Zwirner's 52 Walker
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Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition Egregore at Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris France
Group Exhibition Égrégore Galerie Chantal Crousel 8 February–8 March 2025
Paris
Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition Coming Soon at Lafayette Anticipations Paris France
Group Exhibition Coming Soon Lafayette Anticipations 28 February–12 May 2024
Paris
Contemporary art exhibition Heji Shin THE BIG NUDES at David Zwirner New York 52 Walker United States
Heji Shin THE BIG NUDES David Zwirner 22 July–8 October 2023
New York: 52 Walker

Representative Artworks

Exhibition view: Heji Shin, THE BIG NUDES, 52 Walker, New York (22 July–8 October 2023). Courtesy 52 Walker.
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Heji Shin, Work in progress (2023). © Heji Shin. Courtesy the artist and 52 Walker, New York.
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Heji Shin, Eat Me (2023). Inkjet print on paper. 185.4 x 139.1 cm. Framed: 200.7 x 153.7 x 5.4 cm. Edition 1 of 3, 2 AP. © Heji Shin. Courtesy the artist and 52 Walker, New York.
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Heji Shin, Kanye II (2018). Courtesy Heji Shin and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York.
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Exhibition view: Heji Shin, THE BIG NUDES, 52 Walker, New York (22 July–8 October 2023). Courtesy 52 Walker.
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Heji Shin, Big Nude II (2023). Inkjet print on paper. 185.4 x 139.1 cm. Framed: 200.7 x 153.7 x 5.4 cm. Edition 1 of 3, 2 AP © Heji Shin. Courtesy the artist and 52 Walker, New York.
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Galerie Buchholz contemporary art gallery in Berlin Germany
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