Shay Kun

Shay Kun (Hebrew: שי קון; born 1974) is an Israeli-American painter known for post-modern interpretation of the Hudson River School movement.[1][2] He is the son of Israeli painter Zeev Kun.

Biography

Shay Kun was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Hungarian parents that survived the Holocaustnts, Zeev and Heddy Kun, both artists. Kun's first solo exhibition has been in Tel Aviv at age 18. He later studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (1998) and received his masters at Goldsmiths, University of London (2000). Since then, he has been living and working in New York City.[3][4][5]

His works has been exhibited worldwide, including solo shows at Linda Warren projects in Chicago, Benrimon Contemporary in New York, Bill Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, Michael Schultz Gallery in Berlin, LaMontagne Gallery in Boston and at Hezi Cohen Gallery in Tel Aviv as well as numerous group shows, including at The 51st Venice Biennale, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Untitled gallery in New York, Fortes Vilaca Gallery in São Paulo, Leslie Smith in Amsterdam, and at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.[6][7][8]

Kun infuses traditional Hudson River School images of nature, particularly Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt. His painstaking attention to detail and composition of fantasy landscapes on canvas are updated with contemporary mass production Pop art motifs, out of scale and perspective. Kun's hyperreality and postmodernism style creates a jarring utopia.[9][10][11][12][13][14] In that respect, he inherited The Holocaust influence on his parents' art. His mother paintings are utopian landscapes of an ideal world, while the paintings of his father, shows a dark world falling apart.[15][16]

The New York Observer wrote: "Elements that he incorporates into his brilliantly colored, sometimes gaudy canvases including brittle, biscuit-tin landscapes of the sort mass-produced in factories in Taiwan...The show,'Exfoliations', is further proof, like Mark Ryden's recent show at Paul Kasmin, that the huge world of kitsch has become fair game for fine art".[17]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Artists: Shay Kun". Linda Warren Projects.
  2. ↑ "Shay Kun's Jarring Earth Invaders". The Huffington Post. 6 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "Shay Kun. Socio-political pop cult". LoDown Magazine, Berlin (168). Retrieved October 2009. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ↑ Tylevich, Katya (2012). "'Holocaust Toys'" (PDF). Elephant Magazine. Summer (11).
  5. ↑ "Resume". Shay Kun's official website.
  6. ↑ "I Love Shanghai". Time Out Shanghai. 20 November 2013.
  7. ↑ McQuaid, Kate (3 February 2010). "Echoing and altering the landscape". Boston Globe.
  8. ↑ "Resume". Shay Kun's official website.
  9. ↑ "Art and culture: Natural causes have surreal effects". Emaho Magazine. 13 September 2012.
  10. ↑ Tauginas, Eiseley (August 2010). "Industry Insiders: Hard working artist Shay Kun". Blackbook Magazine.
  11. ↑ Pryor, John-Paul (1 February 2007). "Shay Kun Chocolate's Box Paintings". Dazed & Confused.
  12. ↑ Etherington-Smith, Meredith. "Letter from London: What's On In the East End" (PDF). ARTINFO. Retrieved 24 January 2007.
  13. ↑ "Shay Kun's Jarring Earth Invaders". The Huffington Post. 6 February 2012.
  14. ↑ Brooks, Kimberly (3 November 2008). "The Election and Art Swimming in My Head". The Huffington Post.
  15. ↑ Tylevich, Katya (2012). "Holocaust Toys" (PDF). Elephant Magazine (11): 36–40.
  16. ↑ Ganihar, Tomer (6 February 2013). "Pop surrealist Shay Kun says the Holocaust is in his DNA" (PDF). Haaretz Daily Newspaper.
  17. ↑ Anthony, Haden-Guest. "Back in the New York Groove, The Author Comes Home and Finds the Art World Changed". The New York Observer. Retrieved 28 September 2010.

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