Shin Sang-Ho

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Dr. Shin Sang-Ho (b. 1947) is the Dean, College of Fine Arts at Hong-ik University in Seoul, Korea. After graduating from Hong-ik University in Seoul, Dr. Shin began his career by making traditional blue-green celadon as well as punch'ong (buncheong) stoneware. After a brief sojourn in London, he returned back to Korea with an abruptly different style from the traditional work of his early years, fusing both western and eastern design in his work. Traveling extensively around the world, his later pieces have become increasingly contemporary, fusing primitive animal art with modern minimalism, such as his acclaimed Dream of Africa series. Currently, Dr. Shin has been developing "fired painting" tiles used as a means to apply ceramic arts to commercial architecture. His fired painting tiles were used as the exterior surface to the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea.

His work is in the permanent collections of:

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea)
Museum of Korea University in Seoul (Korea)
Museum of Hong-Ik University in Seoul (Korea)
HOAM Museum in Yong-in (Korea)
Everson Museum in Syracuse (U.S.A.)
Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Britain)
The British Museum in London (Britain)
Royal Ontario Museum in Ontario (Canada)
Royal Marimont Museum in Brussels (Belgium)
Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland (U.S.A.)
Seattle Art Museum (U.S.A.)
Musée national de céramique de Sèvres The National Ceramic Museum in Sevres (France)