Jin-Me Yoon

Jin-me Yoon (Korean-Canadian, b. 1960) is an artist whose photography and video work explores the intersections between identity, location and nationhood. Her work challenges, through formal and conceptual means, stereotypical constructs, especially those around racialization and sexual difference that continue to permeate contemporary culture. Yoon immigrated to Vancouver from Seoul in 1968. She received a BA from the University of British Columbia (1985), a BFA from Emily Carr College (1990) and an MFA from Concordia University (1992). Yoon has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2022-23), Musée d’art de Joliette, Montreal (2019), Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme (2019), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2017), Kamloops Art Gallery (2004), Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (2002), Western Front, Vancouver (1997) and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (1991). Her work is widely collected in Canada and can be found in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Oakville Galleries, Vancouver Art Gallery and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Yoon is a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where she teaches photo and video installation and contemporary art theory. In 2018, Yoon was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2022, she received the Scotiabank Photography Award.