CCCA Canadian Art Database

Birth City: Seoul

Jin-me Yoon

First Name: Jin-me

Last Name: Yoon

Biography (English): Jin-me Yoon is a Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist situated on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueum, Squamish, and Tsleil-Wauthuth Nations whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. Since the early ’90s, she has used photography, video, and performance to situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political, and ecological conditions. Through experimental cinematography and the performative gestures of family, friends, and community members, Yoon reconnects repressed pasts with damaged presents, creating the conditions for different futures. Staging her work in charged landscapes, Yoon finds specific points of reference across multiple geopolitical contexts. In so doing, she brings worlds together, affirming the value of difference. Over the last three decades, Jin-me Yoon’s work has been presented internationally in hundreds of exhibitions, and she has mentored many students over the years while teaching at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2018, she was elected as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada in 2018; and in 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award.

Website Link: http://www.jin-meyoon.com

Birth Year: 1960

Medium: media photography video

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Jinny Yu

First Name: Jinny

Last Name: Yu

Biography (English): Jinny Yu holds an MFA and MBA degree from York University and from Schulich School of Business and a BFA degree from Concordia University. Since 1996, her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions across Canada, as well as the United States, Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom. An artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1999 and at Stiftung Starke in Berlin in 2004, at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing in 2005, and a grant recipient of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Yu has taught in Toronto, Montreal, New Brunswick, Paris and lately worked at the Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems at Venice International University in Italy. She has lectured widely at various institutions such as Sangmyung University in Seoul, Korea, NSCAD University in Halifax, Concordia University and Cégep Rosemont in Montreal. Represented by the Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal , her paintings are featured in various museum, corporation, foundation and private collections. Some of the collectors include Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Ernst & Young, ICI Canada Inc., and Mills Foundation.

Biography (French): Jinny Yu est titulaire d'une maîtrise en beaux-arts et d'un MBA de l'Université York et de la Schulich School of Business, ainsi que d'un baccalauréat en beaux-arts de l'Université Concordia. Depuis 1996, ses œuvres ont été présentées dans de nombreuses expositions partout au Canada, ainsi qu'aux États-Unis, au Japon, en Italie et au Royaume-Uni. Artiste en résidence au Banff Centre for the Arts en 1999 et à la Stiftung Starke à Berlin en 2004, à la Red Gate Gallery à Pékin en 2005 et boursier du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Yu a enseigné à Toronto, Montréal, Nouveau-Brunswick, Paris et a récemment travaillé au Centre d'études sur les technologies des systèmes d'intelligence distribuée de l'Université internationale de Venise en Italie. Elle a donné de nombreuses conférences dans diverses institutions telles que l'Université Sangmyung à Séoul, en Corée, l'Université NSCAD à Halifax, l'Université Concordia et le Cégep Rosemont à Montréal. Représentée par la Galerie Art Mûr à Montréal, ses peintures sont présentes dans diverses collections de musées, d'entreprises, de fondations et privées. Parmi les collectionneurs figurent le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Ernst & Young, ICI Canada Inc. et la Fondation Mills.

Social Media Link: https://www.instagram.com/jinny__yu/

Website Link: http://www.jinnyyu.com/

Birth Year: 1976

Medium: installation painting

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