Sean Shim-Boyle

Overview

Portrait of Sean Shim-Boyle. © Sean Shim-Boyle. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Marguo.

Born in Vancouver in 1986, Sean Shim-Boyle is a Canadian artist living and working in Los Angeles. He received a MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA in Graphic Design from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Sean’s work centers around an insistence that identity is borne of imagination, recombination and resurrection at times and in places where and when systems and strength fail.

Engaging in macro-scale inquiries—his race as a biracial Korean-Canadian, 1.5/second generation individual; as well as micro-scale contemplations—his experience of being diagnosed with and living with a serious cardiac condition, the artist continues to explore and critique narratives of site and self.

Shim-Boyle has presented solo exhibitions in institutions across the United States including Project Rowhouses in Texas, Laxart in Los Angeles, and Signal and Jane Lombard Gallery in New York. He was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2013.

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Biography

Sean Shim-Boyle, Golden Egg, 2018

Born in Vancouver, Canada in 1986

Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA

Education

2012	MFA, Sculpture, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2008	BFA, Graphic Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2022	Galerie Marguo, 'My Heart Sys Bang', Paris, France
2018	Jane Lombard Gallery, ‘Jack’, New York, USA
2016	Various Small Fires, ‘THIEF’, Los Angeles, USA
2015	SIGNAL, ‘Sisyphus’, Brooklyn, USA
2014	Various Small Fires at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, ‘Happy Cat by Sean Shim-Boyle’, Santa Monica, USA
2013	LA><ART, ‘A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats’, Los Angeles, USA
2013	Project Row Houses, ‘Salt House’, Houston, USA