I’ve always been deeply connected to nature and sense of place— the land as it calls to me.
Shinea is an internationally renowned artist who has exhibited across the US under the name, Yuh-Shioh. Her debut exhibition, “Spirits Gone Astray”, in NYC in 2003, was reviewed in the New York Times and other art magazines. Her paintings are a part of private and public collections, including the Stanford Children’s Hospital, Marin General, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, and Marina Bay Sands Luxury Hotel in Singapore. She holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard, an MFA from Hunter College, NYC, and was an Artist in Resident at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX during the spring of 2013.
Starting around 2016, she began expanding her practice off of the canvas, into the land itself, and taking a more conscious investigation into healing, energy, and channeling. In 2019, she created (painted and wrote) a set of medicine cards called “The Golden Light Channel”, as a messenger for the divine feminine. She offers soul paintings and Akashic Record readings.
Part of Shinea’s life journey has been about connecting more deeply with nature and the divine and investigating the soul. When she is in places like the forest, ocean, or desert, she feels a sense of expansion and freedom to merge with the elements. Her paintings can be seen as translations of something as specific as the sunlight hitting a leaf and the angle at which a tree grows, to celestial music and all of the spaces in between. Using the language of color, light, line, and shape, she communicates her perceptions of nature and the cosmos and how everything is interconnected. Visual movements bring about shifts and transformations on multiple planes of existence.
Shinea’s paintings have an uplifting presence and bring an exquisite beauty to the atmosphere. They can be seen as living breathing objects that emanate light. They are portals of high frequency that raise the vibration of the spaces they inhabit. “When I paint I feel like I am connected to everything and that I am everything and nothing all at once.”
When I paint I feel like I am connected to everything and that I am everything and nothing all at once.
