Yujin Shin is a Korean multimedia artist based in Chicago who works primarily in painting and sculpture, while also incorporating ceramics into her practice. Born in South Korea in 2001, Shin moved several times in her early childhood before immigrating with her family to the United Arab Emirates at the age of eleven. After graduating from high school in Abu Dhabi, she began studying Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2020 before transferring to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she completed her BFA in 2025. Initially drawn to the aesthetic and visual language of artworks, Shin entered art history through a deep interest in how meaning is constructed through image, form, and visual culture. As she deepened her understanding of artists’ conceptual and material worlds, she became increasingly compelled to develop an artistic language of her own through making, a shift that led her to pursue studio practice more directly.

Working across oil painting, sculpture, and ceramics, Shin’s practice centers on memory, emotional experience, and the complexities of human relationships. Frequent moves throughout her early life, including immigration at a young age, informed her sensitivity to the emotional and psychological structures that shape human connection. Her work is also shaped by an ongoing interest in belonging, displacement, and interpersonal connection, particularly in how these experiences leave lasting emotional traces over time.