Jean Shon
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Jean Shon is a visual artist and educator working in installation, photography, text, and mixed media. Her work explores memory, identity, loss, melancholia, and recovery in the context of family history and surrounding community. She transforms archival artifacts and remnants from the past by re-presenting them to both reveal and reimagine the history they hold.
Jean earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California-Irvine and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.