CondemNATION

Curated by Zeinab Saab and Olivia Richardson

Mizin Shin

About the Artist

Born and raised in South Korea, Mizin Shin is a US-based visual artist. Regularly leading printmaking workshops with collaborating art organizations, Shin focuses on both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices while promoting a multidisciplinary approach to the medium. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions across the United States, Belgium, Spain, the UK, India, and South Korea. She was a juror for The Paths We Cross: Perspectives from the Korean Diaspora, 2022 Screenprint Biennial, and 2021 Southern Tier Biennial. Shin is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship; the University of Rochester Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship; and the Andrew & Barbara Choi Foundation Project Grant.

Mizin Shin graduated from Hong-ik University with a B.F.A in Printmaking and received her M.F.A from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Shin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rochester as well as a co-founder of Mirabo Press in Buffalo, NY. She has served as a board member of the Mid-America Print Council and vice president of the Print Club of Rochester from 2020–22, and is currently a board member of Visual Studies Workshop. Recently, Shin has published TeachPrint.com—a free resource of hypermedia educational materials for school teachers to promote printmaking in art classrooms.

Artist:

Mizin Shin

Exhibition

CondemNATION

Artist Statement

Use Your Voice #StopAsianHate started in response to rising hate crimes as a way to speak out against racially motivated prejudice and violence. The message is being translated into a variety of languages to engage diverse linguistic communities. There are two versions of the prints being made: (1) Blind embossed prints—these are being traded in exchange for donations to organizations supporting AAPI communities, and (2) Screenprints—produced for free public distribution to raise awareness.

Prints have been traded in exchange for over $3,200 in donations to organizations such as Stop Asian American Pacific Islander Hate, Advancing Justice Asian Law Caucus, Asian American Leadership Delegation, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, and AAPI Women Lead.

So far, the prints have been translated into Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese languages, with aims to include additional languages in the near future. All prints are translated by volunteers.

Aaron Coleman's, The Pieta, composed of an American flag made from painted picket fence slats. A pan-African flag hangs from the blue gound and drapes over the lower red stripe slats.

South Korea-born artist and assistant professor in the University of Rochester Department of Art and Art History, Mizin Shin is pictured at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center where her current print campaign ‘Use Your Voice #StopAsianHate,’ which she began in response to rising hate crimes, is currently featured in the installation 'A Change Is Coming' March 2, 2022. Shin is an internationally-renowned printmaker whose “network models” reflect the interdependency of manufacturing, production, and consumption systems. Her work is presented in various forms, from posters to video work, sculpture, and more immersive installations. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Use Your Voice #StopAsianHate

Installation with Screenprints, 18″ x 12″ (each), 2021