CHOI+SHINE ARCHITECTS is an internationally awarded art and design studio established by Jin Choi and Thomas Shine. Their works have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and published in major press, including the BBC, CNN, Le Figaro, Corriere della Sera and The Guardian. Choi+Shine’s works range in scale from small lighting fixtures shown at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York to large infrastructure projects presented for the European Capital of Culture in Marseille, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Milan Design Week and the Dongdaemun History & Culture Park in Seoul.
Their public art installations have been exhibited worldwide, including the Netherlands, Singapore and the US. They were invited to create an artwork representing the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, the 2019 City of Liverpool Riverfront exhibition, the Phoebus Foundation in Belgium and for the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Recently, they were commissioned for a traveling exhibition by the EU, the inauguration of the Grand Studio at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan and for an invited exhibition at Sharjah Art Museum in the UAE.
Jin Choi holds a MFA in Architectural Art, and an M.Arch from Yale University. Her work has been published and exhibited at world class venues and In 2013, she was selected by The Korean Institute of Architects as a “Global Young Architect”. She is the Lead Curator at the Amsterdam Light Festival and is the co-inventor of several patented works with Thomas Shine.
Thomas Shine received his B.Arch and M.Arch from Yale University and taught structures at Yale School of Architecture. Before studying architecture, he worked in biotechnology in London, and later ran a firm developing medical equipments. Many of his medical devices are internationally patented. He is the co-inventor of several patented works with Jin Choi.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, Urchins Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, DDP, Seoul, Korea
2023
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, The Power of One, Fukuoka, Japan
Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah Art Foundation, The 25th Islamic Art Festival, Sharjah, U.A.E
House of Wisdom, Sharjah Art Foundation, The 25th Islamic Art Festival, Sharjah, U.A.E
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, DDP, Seoul, Korea
2022
The European Union, Global Gateway (traveling Exhibition)
Luton Culture, The Trees, Luton, UK
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, DDP, Seoul, Korea
2021
Busan Biennale, The Membrane, Non-/HumanAssemblages, Busan, South Korea
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2020
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2019
Georgetown BID, The Heron, GLOW, Washington, D.C., USA
Phoebus Foundation, Kantate, piKANT!, Aalst, Belgium
Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool, UK
2018
Commonwealth Games 2018, Festival 2018, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Scottsdale Public Art, Arizona!, Scottsdale, USA
Hunterdon Art Museum, Lace, Not Lace, Clinton, USA
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
Yale School of Architecture, A Retrospective on Ten Years of Practice, New Haven, USA
2017
The Deutsches Museum, ENERGIE.WENDEN, Munich, Germany
Sharjah Culture, Sharjah Art Foundation, The 20th Islamic Art Festival, Sharjah, U.A.E
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
The Bahrain Light Festival, Manama, Bahrain
Gallery Bom, Summer Group Show: Sprout, Boston, USA
iLight Festival, Urchins, Marina Bay Singapore
2016
Milan Design Week, Poetry, Invited International Exhibition, Logotel, Milan, Italy
The Amsterdam Light Festival, The Lace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Korean Institute of Culture & Architecture, Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2015
Soda Museum, Re:Born, Seoul, Korea
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Future of Infrastructure, London, UK
2013
European Capital of Culture, Metamorphosis, Marseille, France
2012
Yale University School of Architecture, Woman in Architecture, New Haven, USA
2011
Victoria & Albert Museum, The Pylon for the Future, London, UK
Seoul Architecture Festival, Global Young Architects, Seoul, Korea
2010
Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada, Permanent Collection, Ottawa, Canada
