Heji Shin is a German photographer known for her provocative, often overtly sexual, art and fashion portraits of people and animals. Her commercial work includes the cover of Robyn’s album Honey and a 2017 campaign for American fashion label Eckhaus Latta. In 2019, Shin exhibited a series of gigantic inkjet portraits of rapper Kanye West with loudly colored backgrounds that are a nod to the portraits of Andy Warhol.
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Heji Shin is a German photographer known for her provocative, often overtly sexual, art and fashion portraits of people and animals. Her commercial work includes the cover of Robyn’s album Honey and a 2017 campaign for American fashion label Eckhaus Latta. Her first US solo show was The Great Penetrator featuring portraits of hoofed animals from a Berlin zoo juxtaposed with images of a street corner and a naked hips and vagina. In 2019, Shin exhibited a series of gigantic inkjet portraits of rapper Kanye West with loudly colored backgrounds that are a nod to the portraits of Andy Warhol.
Shin submitted her West portraits to the 2019 Whitney Bienneal, but met with resistance from curators who said they feared that West’s celebrity and notoriety would dominate the show. She said “Doing something simply out of a desire to be transgressive is very stupid, you know, just to break certain taboos.”
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