Bio
Jin-me Yoon is a Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist living and working on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Since the early 1990s, her lens-based practice has critically examined the construction of self and other in relation to her own direct and inherited history, as well as within broader geopolitical contexts. Unpacking stereotypical assumptions and dominant discourses while simultaneously foregrounding intersectional considerations, Yoon’s work has examined gender, sexuality, maternity, ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood. Adopting a wider and wider lens over time, her practice has become a deep investigation into entangled local and global histories existing at specific sites within the purview of ecological diasporic transnationalism.
Her work has been presented extensively nationally and internationally as well as collected in numerous public institutions. A thirty-year survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art de Joliette is currently touring nationally and in 2022, Jin-me Yoon’s recent work will be presented in an exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery as well as featured in an online monograph by the Art Canada Institute. She is a faculty member at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and has mentored many students and artists over the years; continuing to learn and develop her practice alongside others, in conversation.
Projects
Long View (2017)
Long View postcard project (2017)
Mirror Mirror, Gallerie (1990)
Intersection (1996, 1998, 2001)
Jin-me Yoon, Intersection 1, 1996, diptych, C-prints, 98 x 141 cm each.
Jin-me Yoon, Intersection 2, 1998, diptych, C-prints, 144 x 109 cm each.
Jin-me Yoon, Intersection 3, 2001, diptych, C-prints, 161 x 207 cm each.
Jin-me Yoon, Intersection 5, 2001, diptych, C-prints, 161 x 207 cm each.
Rest (2012)
Jin-me Yoon, Rest, 2012, C-print, 148.6 x 121.92 cm.
Ephemera and Related Artworks
City of Vancouver Award (2012)
National Art Gallery (1998)
Yellow Peril Reconsidered, postcard detail. (1990)
(In)authentic (Re)search, Vancouver Sun (1990)
Fertile Ground Exhibition review (1996)
Intersections review, Vancouver Sun, 2001
Generation Exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery (1994)
MAWA First Person Plural
(with Elizabeth MacKenzie)
Letter to colleague
“Note: while looking through another of my ‘piles’/archive, I found this sealed yet unposted postcard with 2 photos. Never sent but was poignant to experience this time capsule moment. Doesn’t really matter who this note was intended for as I think this future me was the ultimate intended recipient.”
Parallelogramme cover (1992)
Elizabeth MacKenzie, Jin-me Yoon, Blackflash Magazine (1997)
Chronogram cover (2002)
Hey You, Ya You! Jimmie Yoo, VIVO Fundraiser postcard
Mix Magazine cover (1996)
Artist pages Ms. Magazine (1993)
The Work of Asian Woman (1996)
The Vancouver Korean Press (1990)
The Korea Times (1999)