“Jin-me Yoon: Revolving A Set of Relations”
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), is honored to present Jin-me Yoon as the speaker for the tenth Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture. The event will take place on Saturday, October 5,
2024, at 2:00 PM in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Canada. The University of Ottawa acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territories of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, who are the traditional custodians of this land.
This lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, dedicated to advancing contemporary art discourse. The Annual Stonecroft Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture Series offers students at the University of Ottawa and the general public a unique opportunity to engage with the practices of prominent Canadian artists.
We warmly invite you to attend this enlightening talk by Jin-me Yoon, either in person at the NGC auditorium or online via our live Zoom stream.
Jin-me Yoon
http://www.jin-meyoon.com
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist 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; and in 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA). Recent monographs include; Jin-me Yoon (SPA/Steidl, 2023), About Time (Vancouver Art Gallery/Hirmer, 2022) and Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2022). For the fall of 2024, Yoon’s work will be presented at Imjingak/DMZ (Paju), the Hammer Museum (LA), Secession (Vienna), the Korean Cultural Centre (Vienna) and on the facade of the National Gallery of Canada as a part of the Leading with Women series.