EDUCATION
Pratt Institute:
College of Arts and Design, Brooklyn, NY
Master of Professional Studies in Creative Arts Therapy, May 2008

Cornell University:
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, May 2005

Cornell University, Rome Program, Rome, Italy, Spring 2004

EXHIBITIONS
12/2005, Evolving Art Gallery, Vallejo, CA-Works Big and Small

10/2005, Evolving Art Gallery, Vallejo, CA-Real and Surreal

05/2005, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY- Senior Thesis
Exhibition

05/2004, Cornell University in Rome, Rome, Italy- Rome Studio Exhibition

10/2002, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY- Student Group
Exhibition

Wonju Shin

Artist Statement

I am interested in the process of decision making since we all face many choices everyday as human beings. I make a choice of one or the other. I make a choice and realize that it doesn't always turn out as I expected. I run away from a choice and soon I find myself facing the same choice yet again. Many times I seem to be caught in a loop, always coming back to the same place and the same time no matter which choice I make. The harder I try to get away, the more entangled I find myself in the midst of thousands of choices. I wonder if I will spend my life agonizing which choice to make when there is, in reality, only one choice and I am too blind and too distracted to realize this. One decision leads to another as one pencil stroke determines the direction of the next. Every choice influences the ones that follow, regardless of whether or not I choose. No single choice stands alone. A choice that's been made and a choice that's overlooked coexist and together they balance out to become a whole. These choices are represented as doors in my drawings. As time goes on, the image becomes less important and solely the act of decision-making survives.