Young Shin is a Los Angeles–based artist working primarily with paper through processes of folding, tearing, layering, sanding, weaving, and compression. Her work explores the tension between control and release—how material can be shaped with intention until it inevitably shifts, resists, or moves beyond the hand. Through these gestures, her surfaces assume a quiet, topographic presence that holds both fragility and resilience, inviting the viewer into a space where restraint and surrender coexist.

Influenced by the quiet rigor of post-war abstraction and shaped by her background in fashion design, Young approaches material with an emphasis on structure, drape, and the nuanced behaviors of fiber under pressure. Paper’s dual nature—delicate yet assertive, malleable yet irrevocably set once formed—anchors her practice both formally and conceptually.

Her work appears in private, corporate, and hospitality collections internationally, including the Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt, Autograph Collection Hotels, UCSF Medical Center, Wells Fargo, Four Seasons, luxury spas and resorts, law firms, and multi-residential developments. In her current series, Young examines how subtle material shifts can hold emotional, spatial, and contemplative depth through folded and compressed planes that function as liminal thresholds—marking the moment when intention yields to drift, resistance, and the slow settling of material over time.