Jin-me Yoon »

Scotiabank Photography Award

Exhibition: 29 Apr 2023 – 5 Aug 2023
Opening: 28 Apr 2023, 19 – 22

Scotiabank Photography Award
Fig. Jin-me Yoon, A Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996, two grids of 67 framed chromogenic prints for a total of 134 prints and 1 name panel. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund. Courtesy of the artist

This exhibition, composed of seminal series along with new works, celebrates artist Jin-me Yoon’s lens-based art. Korean-born and based in Vancouver, Yoon reflects critically upon the construction of national and diasporic identities in relation to her personal experience and broader geopolitical contexts. The artist, winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award (2022), repurposes visual stereotypes and dominant narratives to explore gender, culture, and citizenship in an accelerated, globalized era. Yoon’s work also reframes viewers’ understanding of some of the most pressing issues today, including the impacts of colonialism, militarization, displacement, and environmental devastation.