Shin Gallery
Shin Gallery also works with a variety of venues including national heritage sites, hotels, and public spaces further demonstrating its international agenda.
He was interested in art since his youth, he started collecting at 13, when he bought a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Nobuyoshi Araki & Rudolf Schwarzkogler: Salon de Mass-age In 2015, the gallery exhibited a project called Salon de Mass-age in which the gallery's experimental space was transformed into a seedy exotic massage parlor to exhibit the grotesque works of Rudolf Schwarzkogler along with the erotic works of Nobuyoshi Araki.
The exhibit paralleled the sexual connotation of a massage parlor with the explicit imagery present in Schwarzkogler and Araki’s works.
The gallery space was a recreation of Kippenberger’s studio featuring objects the artists were fond of such as Mazda matches, Diebels Alt beer, Baldinette camera film, cigarettes, a favorite gray blazer, and magazine clippings.
Commenting on the intense lifestyles of the visual artists Kippenberger and Polke, drug paraphernalia was scattered across the project space also referencing ready-made art.
The show featured paintings and drawings from the three acclaimed modernist artists, highlighting the American style of art that emerged in the late 1920s.
This group exhibition displayed the works of African-American formerly enslaved and self-taught artists including David Drake, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, and anonymous potters and doll-makers from the 19th century.
Past artists featured in the Shin Haus program include Amanda Baldwin, Bernadette Despujols, Talia Levitt, Egami Etsu, Yoora Lee, Ani Liu, Emma Safir, Shuyi Cao, Nate Plotkin, Ernesto Renda, and many others.
Shin Gallery’s show of outsider artists included the works of Hawkins Bolden, Henry Darger, Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial, and Minnie Evans.
In 2020 Shin Gallery also hosted the largest exhibition of Purvis Young, the self-taught American painter, in New York to date.
