Jae Shin is a partner at HECTOR, an urban design, planning, and civic arts practice whose projects include the memorial for eco-feminist Sister Carol Johnston, an installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, transforming the art center into a laboratory for dissecting how power works through built space, and a youth-centric development plan for Detroit’s west side, recently recognized with the National Planning Award.
Jae holds degrees in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and in architecture from Princeton University. She has led design studios at graduate programs, most recently at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and the Yale School of Architecture. Serving as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), she facilitated efforts to define and implement design principles for preserving and rehabilitating New York City’s public housing. Her projects have received support from the MacDowell, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
