Jinny Yu

Jinny Yu
Yu in 2019
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Seoul, South Korea
NationalityCanadian
EducationDawson College 1995
Concordia University 1998
Alma materYork University 2002
Known forPainting
Installation art
StyleContemporary artist
AwardsLaura Ciruls Painting Award Ontario Arts Foundation
Mid-Career Artist Award Council for the Arts in Ottawa
Jinny Yu's "Story of a Global Nomad", Exhibition view, Art Mûr gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2008.

Jinny Yu (born 1976)[1][2] is a Canadian artist working primarily in the fields of painting and installation art.

Life and work

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Jinny Yu was born in Seoul, South Korea.[1] She immigrated to Canada in 1988, settling in Montreal.[1][3] Yu studied fine arts at Dawson College, earning a degree in fine arts in 1995, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University three years later. During the mid- and late-1990s, Yu taught art at various schools in Quebec and at the American School of Paris in France. She studied at York University, earning her Master of Business Administration degree in Arts and Media Administration and Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts in 2002. From 2003 until 2005, Yu worked as an assistant professor at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She left Mount Allison to serve as a research fellow at the Centre for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems at Venice International University for a year. Yu participated in several artist residencies—in Berlin and Beijing, and at the Banff Centre in Alberta—before teaching in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa in 2007.[4] Today, she serves as Professor at the University of Ottawa.[5] Yu resides in Ottawa, Canada.[1]

Yu's painting series, Story of a Global Nomad, in 2007-2008, examined the socio-economic impact of architecture. Along with that series, Yu's work Sequence, 2009, established her artistic reputation.[4] Other subjects Yu has explored through her work include detachment, connected to her experiences in immigration and relocation, which she calls "global nomadism," and the relationship between painting and space.[6] In 2015, Yu exhibited the site-specific work Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? during the 56th Venice Biennale at the Oratorio di San Ludovico.[4] The installation work used Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds as a metaphor for the migration crises in the Mediterranean Sea and Bay of Bengal. The work is now in the permanent collection of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.[7]

Notable collections

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Further reading

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  • Burant, Jim. Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4871-0289-0
  • Foscari, Antonio and Jinny Yu. Jinny Yu (NONE). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press (2008). ISBN 2923243013
  • Tiampo, Ming. "Jinny Yu: Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating?". Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 4.1-2: 217-219. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00401016 Web.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Artists in Canada". Canadian Heritage. Government of Canada. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Jinny Yu". Drain Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. ^ "CCCA Artist Profile for Jinny Yu". The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. University of Concordia. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Burant, Jim (2022). Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0289-0.
  5. ^ "Jinny Yu". Concordia University. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Jinny Yu". Brooklyn Arts Council. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Don't They Ever Stop Migrating?". Collections. Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Firestone Collection of Canadian Art & Ottawa Art Gallery's Permanent Collection". Ottawa Art Gallery. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Story of a Global Nomad (Multiple Trees)". Collections (in French). Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Story of a Global Nomad (De Vonk 1)". Art Bank. Canada Council. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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