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By Jin-me Yoon
Jin-me Yoon is a Korea-born, Vancouver-based artist whose work explores the entangled relations of tourism, militarism, and colonialism.

Jin-me Yoon, Untitled 7 (Long Time So Long), 2022, inkjet print, 139.7 x 111.8 cm, © Jin-me Yoon

Jin-me Yoon, ChronoChrome 2 (Long Time So Long), 2022, inkjet print, 182.9 x 121.9 cm, © Jin-me Yoon

Jin-me Yoon, Handle with care (don’t waste the pain), 2023, billboard, © Jin-me Yoon

Jin-me Yoon, Prosthetic Portal 3, 2022, inkjet print, 152.4 x 152.4 cm, © Jin-me Yoon

Jin-me Yoon, Becoming Crane 4 (Pacific Flyways), 2022, chromogenic print, 106.7 x 162.6 cm, © Jin-me Yoon

About the author

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. Recent monographs include: Jin-me Yoon (SPA/Steidl), About Time (Vancouver Art Gallery/Hirmer) and Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute).