Jocelyn Shu is an artist inspired by the process of translating across cultures and fields of knowledge. She draws influence from her background as a psychology researcher in cognitive and affective science. She holds a BFA in Painting/Drawing jointly from the University of San Francisco and the California College of the Arts, a PhD in Psychology from Columbia University, and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard. Born in the Bay Area, California, she lives and works between Greater Boston and Taipei, Taiwan.
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EDUCATION
2019 PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005 BFA, University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts (joint program), San Francisco, CA
2003–04 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Language | Line, 文字｜線, Gallery 80A 軟輪畫廊, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 As I Came Home, LaunchPad, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Messages for the Future, Melrose Tiny Gallery, Melrose, MA
2016 81 Chapters, Tikhonova & Wintner Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Hidden Things: BFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Space Between Things, 3-person show curated by Jonathan Latiano, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2023 Together in Rhythm: Geometry in Art, curated by Shane Taremi, pop-up show at 238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
2022 Artists and Language, curated by Deborah Davidson, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 National Prize Show, juried by Barbara O'Brien, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2022 Tip of the Tongue, juried by Santiago Cucullu, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2022 Somerville Open Studios: First Look Show, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2020 Touchy Feely, Gallery 263 (online exhibition), Cambridge, MA
2017 The New Mimesis, SciArt Center exhibition at Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA
2015 FLUX Art Fair, Corn Exchange Building, New York, NY
2014 Transitions v2, Associated Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Intimate: Small Works, Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Summer Salon, Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Embodied, Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA
2007 APAture, Space180, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
2007 Making Space, Crucible Steel Gallery, CELLSpace, San Francisco, CA
2007 Present Tense, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
2007 Transgressions: Transgender, Transnational, Transsexual, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Yutong Shi. “Sculpting as Translation: In Conversation with Jocelyn Shu,“ Boston Art Review, October 31, 2023. https://bostonartreview.com/reviews/sculpting-as-translation-jocelyn-shu-yutong-shi/
B. Amore. “Peter DeCamp Haines, Eric Sealine, Jocelyn Shu,“ Sculpture Magazine, October 27, 2023. https://sculpturemagazine.art/peter-decamp-haines-eric-sealine-jocelyn-shu/
Doug Holder. “Somerville Artist Jocelyn Shu: Networks of Wire and Text that Open Us to Possibilities,” Off the Shelf. Somerville Times, February 15, 2023. https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/122298#more-122298
Chris Howe. “The Indescribable Sculpture of Jocelyn Shu,” Through The Artist’s Eye. ArtsMedford, May 31, 2022. https://artsmedford.org/newsletter/f/the-indescribable-sculptures-of-jocelyn-shu
Ryan DiLello. “Somerville Open Studios 2022 a success,” Somerville Times, May 4, 2022. https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/116305
Inka Juslin. “Jocelyn Shu on Sculpture and Identity,” Firstindigo&Lifestyle, August 31, 2020. https://firstindigoandlifestyle.com/2020/08/31/jocelyn-shu-on-sculpture-and-identity/
Daniel Larkin. “Finding Your Way Through the Flux Art Fair,” Hyperallergic, May 15, 2015. http://hyperallergic.com/207243/finding-your-way-through-the-flux-art-fair/
Danielle Kalamaras. “Conversation of Change: Transitions V.2 at Associated Gallery,” Bushwick Daily, January 28, 2014. https://bushwickdaily.com/arts-culture/1975-conversation-of-change-transitions-v-2-at-associated-gallery/
PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Shu, J., Ochsner, K. N. & Phelps, E. A. (2022). Trait Intolerance of Uncertainty Is Associated with Decreased Reappraisal Capacity and Increased Suppression Tendency. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00115-8 Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fsnvy
Shu, J., Bolger, N., & Ochsner, K. N. (2021). Social emotion regulation strategies are differentially helpful for anxiety and sadness. Emotion, 21(6), 1144–1159. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000921
Shu, J., Hassell, S., Weber, J., Ochsner, K. N., & Mobbs, D. (2017). The role of empathy in experiencing vicarious anxiety. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(8), 1164-1188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000335
Satpute, A. B., Nook, E. C., Narayanan, S., Weber, J., Shu, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2016). Emotions in “black or white” or shades of gray? How we think about emotion shapes our perception and neural representation of emotion. Psychological Science, 27(11), 1428-1442. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616661555
Silvers, J. A., Hubbard, A. D., Chaudhury, S., Biggs, E., Shu, J., Grunebaum, M. F., Fertuck, E., Weber, J., Kober, H., Carson-Wong, A., Brodsky, B. S., Chesin, M., Ochsner, K. N., & Stanley, B. (2016). Suicide attempters with Borderline Personality Disorder show differential orbitofrontal and parietal recruitment when reflecting on aversive memories. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 81, 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.06.020
Silvers, J. A., Hubbard, A. D., Biggs, E., Shu, J., Fertuck, E., Chaudhury, S., Grunebaum, M. F., Weber, J., Kober, H., Chesin, M., Brodsky, B. S., Koenigsburg, H., Ochsner, K. N., & Stanley, B. (2016). Affective lability and difficulties with regulation are differentially associated with amygdala and prefrontal response in women with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 254, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.06.009
Silvers, J. A., Shu, J., Hubbard, A. D., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2015). Concurrent and lasting effects of emotion regulation on amygdala response in adolescence and young adulthood. Developmental Science, 18(5), 771-784. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12260
Satpute, A. B., Shu, J., Weber, J., Roy, M., & Ochsner, K. N. (2013). The functional neural architecture of self-reports of affective experience. Biological Psychiatry, 73(7), 631-638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.10.001