EMA SHIN

born Japan, arrived in
Australia 2010

QUALIFICATIONS

2005          Master of Fine
Art Degree, Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi, Japan

2003          Graduate Degree
in Printmaking, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Hearts of Absent Women, Gallerysmith, Melbourne (upcoming,
February)

2023

Hearts of Absent Women, Ararat Gallery Textile Art Museum
Australia, Victoria

Hearts of Absent Women, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South
Wales

Hearts of Absent Women, Australian Design Centre, Sydney

2022

Hearts of Absent Women, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

2017

Foyer Gallery, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra

2013

Frisian Graphic Arts Museum, Joure, Netherlands

2012

Gallery ACS, Nagoya, Japan

Japan information & Cultural Centre, Consulate-General of Japan,
Melbourne

2010

Gallery ACS, Nagoya, Japan

2006

Gallery Kaede, Niigata, Japan

2005

Alternative Space Crack, Seoul, Korea

Meihodo Blanc, Nagoya, Japan

2004

Gallery APA F2, Nagoya, Japan

GROUP AND AWARD EXHIBITIONS

2023

My Heart, Platforms Arts Geelong, Victoria

Within My Skin, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne

A Soft Touch, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2023, Wangaratta Art Gallery,
Victoria

Women in Stitches, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New
South Wales

Hand Over Hand: Textiles Today, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA

Present Tending, Australian National Capital Artists Studio +
Gallery, Canberra

She of Mind and Body, Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre,
Dandenong, Victoria

XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2022

Even more beautiful IRL, Incinerator Galley, Melbourne

Victorian Craft Awards 2022, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2021

Fresh Material: New Australian Textile Art, Perc Tucker Regional
Gallery, Townsville

Art Textile Biennial 2020 (touring), East Gippsland Art Gallery,
Victoria; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Barometer Gallery, New
South Wales

2020

McClelland National Small Sculpture Awards 2020, McClelland
Sculpture Park + Gallery, Victoria

Wyndham Art Prize 2020, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Victoria

2019

Place Makers, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

The Curiosities, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2019, Wangaratta Art Gallery,
Victoria

Take Time, Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre, Canberra

2018

Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennale, Chaozhou, China

INTERIORITIES, Curated by Brooke Van Der Linden, The Artists Guild,
Melbourne

Conspicuous Presence, Curated by Women’s Art Register, Trocadero
Art Space, Melbourne

2017

Open House, 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial (touring), Curated by
Glenn Barkley, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW ; Maitland Regional Art Gallery,
NSW; Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW; Artisan – Queensland’s Centre for
Craft and Design, Queensland; Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW; Murray Bridge
Regional Gallery, South Australia; Jam Factory at Seppeltsfield, South
Australia; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria; Town Hall Gallery, Victoria;
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW; Australian Design Centre, NSW

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2017, Wangaratta Art Gallery,
Victoria

Victorian Craft Award 2017, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

2017

WINNER, Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries, Australian Tapestry
Workshop, Melbourne

Selvedge, Virgin Melbourne Fashion Festival, Space at Collins,
Melbourne

Body and Cloth: Performing Textiles, Asia TOPA, Australian Tapestry
Workshop, Melbourne

2016

7th International Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius Book Fair,
Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO, Lithuania

2015

Error, 7th International Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius,
Lithuania

Irene Davies Emerging Artist Award for Small Tapestries, Australian
Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

2014

Cutting Edge, Eastbank Foyer, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton,
Victoria

Tabi Wo Yomu – Artist Book, Akiba Tamabi 21, Tokyo, Japan

Organic Intimacy, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne; Ararat
Regional Art Gallery Town Hall, Ararat

Fertile Ground, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

2013

HIGHLY COMMENDED, Irene Davies Emerging Artist Award for Small
Tapestries, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

Beyond Words – Artists and Translation, Amelie Gallery, Beijing,
China; Wharepuke, Kerikeri, New Zealand

Soshun no Kosai, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan

A Collection of New Works, Qdos Arts, Lorne, Victoria

2012

Love, 6th International Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
and Leipzig, Germany

Linden Postcard show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts,
Melbourne

2011

The Butterfly Effect, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne

2009

3 Persons Exhibition, Gallery APA F2, Nagoya, Japan

2008

Japan Print Show, Northern Print Studio Gallery, Newcastle, England

2007

Jana Leo Kesho, PIAJI Artist in Residence, RaMoMa Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya

13th Sumio Kawakami Woodcut Grand Prix Competition, Museum Sumio
Kawakami, Japan

2005

Grabando, PIAJI Artist in Residence, Museo de los Pintores
Oaxacaquenos, Mexico

Independent-Image and Form 2005, Aichi Museum Gallery,
Nagoya, Japan

13th International Print Biennial Varna, Grafic Art Gallery, Varna,
Bulgaria

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

2017          Artist in Residence, Australian
National University, Canberra School of Art, Canberra

2012          Artist in Residence, Australian
Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia

2010          The Researcher
Overseas Grant, Pola Art Foundation Japan, Melbourne

2010          Artist in Residence, Australian Print
Workshop, Melbourne

2009          European Capital
of Culture, International Artist’s Book Workshop, Vilnius, Lithuania

2007          Jana Leo Kesho, Yesterday Today
Tomorrow Kuona Trust Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya

2006          Mar a Tres
Riveras, On Three Sides of an Ocean, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,
Valencia, Spain

2005          Grabando, Print
Juan Alcazar Studio, Rufino Tamayo Print Studio, Oaxaca, Mexico

2005          Quitate los
Zapatos, Kutsu O Nuide, Take off Your Shoes” Nagoya Art University, Printmaking
Studios, Nagoya, Japan

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cai, Sophia, ‘Filling the hearts of absent women’, Hearts of Absent
Women, Ema Shin, Exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, February 2022

Casamento, Daniella, ‘A New National Small Sculpture Award Draws Entries
from Emerging to Established Artists’, Agenda Matters, September 2020 VIEW ONLINE

Cormack, Bridget, Shin, Ema, ‘How to Embroider an Artwork’ The Weekend
Australian, News Corp Australia, Surrey Hills, 20-21 June 2020

De Boer, Janet. ‘The Embroiderers’ Guild’, Embroidery the Textile Art
Magazine, Aylesbury, March/April 2020

Rosa, Ellen, ‘Blak Douglas wins the Archibald, NFT artist Beeple and
embroidered organs that get personal’, The Art Show, radio Interview,
ABC Radio National, Broadcast Wed 18 May 2022 LISTEN ONLINE

Shin, Ema. Textile Fibre Forum #131, ArtWear Publications,
Ashburton, September 2018

Vannier, Charlotte, Threads, Contemporary Embroidery Art, Thames
& Hudson, London, 2019, pp 204-205

Vannier, Charlotte, DE FIL EN AIGUILLE – La broderie dans l’art
contemporain, Pyramid, Paris, 2018

Woven, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne, 2017

COLLECTIONS

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida, Tokyo

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Bluestone Collection, Melbourne, Australia

RMIT Art Collection, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

Tamworth Regional Art Gallery, Australia