I am grateful to the traditional keepers of the unceded Coast Salish (where I grew up) and Algonquin Anishnaabeg (where I now work) lands and waters for their generosity, teachings, and continued dialogue. I wish to thank Jin-me Yoon and her studio, the Art Canada Institute, and my colleagues and interlocutors. My deepest gratitude goes to my family, to whom this book is dedicated.
From the Art Canada Institute
The Art Canada Institute gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the Title Sponsor of this book, Eleanor and Francis Shen.
We thank the Founding Sponsor of the Art Canada Institute: BMO Financial Group.
The ACI also thanks the other Title Sponsors of the 2022–2023 Canadian Online Art Book Project: K. James Harrison and Melinda Harrison; Sydney and William R. Pieschel Foundation; Scotiabank; and Morden Yolles.
We thank the Art Canada Institute Visionaries: Anonymous; Kiki Delaney, CM, and Ian Delaney; the Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, CC; The Sabourin Family Foundation; and Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan Charitable Foundation.
We are grateful to the Art Canada Institute Leaders: Anonymous; Alexandra Baillie; Alexandra Bennett; Grant and Alice Burton; Jamie Cameron and Christopher Bredt; Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation; The Connor, Clark & Lunn Foundation; Jon S. Dellandrea, CM, and Lyne Dellandrea; Linda and Steven Diener; Roger and Kevin Garland; Joan and Martin Goldfarb; Tim and Darka Griffin; K. James Harrison and Melinda Harrison; The Henry White Kinnear Foundation; The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation; Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation; Michelle Koerner and Kevin Doyle; Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation; Christine Laptuta; Janet and Willard L’Heureux; Karen Girling and Bruce MacLellan; Liza Mauer and Andrew Sheiner; Nancy McCain and Bill Morneau; The McLean Foundation; The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation; John Mulvihill, CM, and Nancy Mulvihill; The Scott Griffin Foundation; Andrew Stewart; TD Bank Group; Trinity Development Foundation; Fred and Linda Waks; Bruce V. Walter and Erica Walter; Susan Wortzman; Jane Zeidler; Joyce Zemans, CM, and Fred Zemans; and Sara and Michael Angel.
Appreciation goes as well to our Patrons: Diana Billes; Eric and Jodi Block; Anne-Marie Canning; Cowley Abbott; Mike and Kim Downs; Lilly Fenig; Jane and Michael Freund; Leslie S. Gales and Keith Ray; Katherine Graham Debost; Reesa Greenberg; Graham and Mary Hallward; KPMB Architects; Marcia McClung and Franklyn Griffiths; Marci McDonald and St. Clair Balfour; Trina McQueen; Elaine Kierans and Shawn McReynolds; Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation; Gilles and Julia Ouellette; Sandra Pitblado, CM, and Jim Pitblado, CM; The Richard and Beryl Ivey Fund within the London Community Foundation; Michael and Renae Tims; Carol Weinbaum; Michael Simmonds and Steven M. Wilson; and Robin and David Young.
The Art Canada Institute extends deep thanks to Jin-me Yoon and her colleagues for the tremendous support with this project at every stage of production. As well, we thank the following for their assistance: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (Jennifer Nicoll, Grace LeSurf); Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (Shannon Parker); Artspeak, Vancouver (Alexandra Bischoff); Associated Press Images (Kathryn Parent); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (Grace Fraraccio); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Laura Graziano); Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, California (Audrey Warne); Canadian Press Images (Andrea Gordon); Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (Sandra Dyck); Character Media, Gardena, California; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (Kolton Procter); Copyright Visual Arts, Montréal (Marcia Lea); Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (Sym Corrigan); Estate of Alex Colville (Ann Kitz); Estate of Lawren Harris (Stewart Sheppard); Estate of Tseng Kwong Chi/Muna Tseng Dance Projects, New York (Cindy Lee); Estate of James Luna/Garth Greenan Gallery, New York (Niki Hunt); Estate of Nobuo Sekine (Yoko Sekine); Hauser & Wirth, London (Rosa Bacile) and Zurich (Valeria Bruecker, Anna Caruso); Jenny Holzer Studio (Eric Sumption); KBS Media, Seoul, Korea (Moosung Kang); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (Ella Liao); Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (Nikki Peck); Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (Isabelle Hogenkamp); Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (Teresa Sudeyko, Karen Zalamea); National Film Board of Canada, Montréal (Alexandra Hubert, Michael Shu); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Raven Amiro, Philip Dombowsky); RMN-Grand Palais, Paris; Scotiabank; Scotiabank CONTACT Festival, Toronto (Brian St. Denis); SFU Galleries, Burnaby (Christina Hedlund); SOCAN (Jane Labiak); Sprüth Magers, Berlin (Monika Simm); Stanford University Press, Redwood City, California (Kristen Spina Harrison); Studio Lee Bul, Seoul, Korea (Chloe Cho, Shinmyung Oh, Olive Han); Vancouver Art Gallery (Danielle Currie); Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Freya Levett); and Jeff Wall Studio (Cora Hall). As well, thank you to Sarah Cameron Sunde, Steven Cottingham, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Rosalie Favell, Vera Gamboa, Jamelie Hassan, Faye HeavyShield, Tehching Hsieh (Maya Houng), Tiaré Jung, Lisa Kahane, Sharon Kahanoff, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Ken Lum, Koizumi Meiro, Tzu Nyen Ho, Alanis Obomsawin, Adria Otte, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Marian Penner Bancroft, Ingrid Pollard, Arthur Renwick, Pipilotti Rist, Cindy Sherman, Lisa Steele, Jeff Thomas, Reiko Tomii, and Camille Turner.
The ACI recognizes the additional private collectors who have given permission for their works to be published in this edition.
IMAGE SOURCES
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Credit for Cover Image
Jin-me Yoon, A Group of Sixty-Seven (detail), 1996. (See below for details.)
Credits for Banner Images
Biography: Jin-me Yoon. (See below for details.)
Key Works: Jin-me Yoon, Long View 1, 2017. (See below for details.)
Significance & Critical Issues: Jin-me Yoon, Souvenirs of the Self (Lake Louise), 1991. (See below for details.)
Style & Technique: Jin-me Yoon, Mul Maeum (video still), 2022. (See below for details.)
Sources & Resources: Jin-me Yoon, Long View 2, 2017. (See
below for details.)
Where to See: Jin-me Yoon, Installation view of Saekdong Skies: Other Ways Through, 2020. (See below for details.)
Credits: Jin-me Yoon, A Group of Sixty-Seven (detail), 1996. (See below for details.)
Contact sheet, c.1980s, research from the Korean Collection, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Courtesy of the artist.
Package sent to Jin-me Yoon from James Luna, June 3, 1997. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
Chung Soon Chin Yoon holding Jin-me Yoon, c.1960, photographer unknown. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
Chung Soon Chin and Myung Choong Yoon at Gimpo International Airport, Seoul, before his departure to Canada in 1966, photographer unknown. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
Edward Burtynsky and Jin-me Yoon at the Scotiabank Photography Award, 2022.
Exhibition banner for The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa in 1995. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo credit: NGC.
Feral Atlas: Empire—Anthropocene Detonator Landscape, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021).
Jin-me Yoon. Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Ian Kenji Barbour.
Jin-me Yoon. Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Jae Woo Kang.
Jin-me Yoon at her BFA Graduation Exhibition, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, 1990, photographer unknown. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
Jin-me Yoon and Ian Kenji Barbour on Jeju Island, South Korea shooting Mul Maeum, 2019, photographer unknown. Courtesy of the artist.
Jin-me Yoon in New York City, early 1990s, photographer unknown. Courtesy of the artist.
Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2), 1912, by Marcel Duchamp. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection (1950-134-59).
Old Time Coast Village, 1929–30, by Emily Carr. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Trust (42.3.4). Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Poster for In Visible Colours: Women of Colour and Third World Women Film/Video Festival and Symposium, 1989. Courtesy of Media Arts Network of Ontario, Toronto.
Pride march in New York City with Act Up activists, 1987. Directphoto Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.
South Koreans watching KBS broadcast Finding Dispersed Families, 1983, photographer unknown. Collection of KBS Archives, Seoul. Courtesy of KBS Archives.
Still Life with Aubergines (Intérieur aux aubergines), 1911, by Henri Matisse. Collection of Musée de Grenoble, gift of the artist and his family, 1922 (MG 2161). Courtesy of Musée de Grenoble.
The Theatre Box (La Loge), 1874, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London (P.1948.SC.338). Courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery.
Yoon family in Iri (now Iksan), North Jeolla Province, date unknown, photographer unknown. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
Yoon extended family welcoming family visiting from Korea at the Vancouver Airport c.1975, photographer unknown. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Jin-me Yoon : life & work / Ming Tiampo.
Names: Tiampo, Ming, author. | Art Canada Institute, publisher.
Description: Issued also in French under title: Jin-me Yoon : sa vie et son œuvre. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: Canadiana 20220455201 | ISBN 9781487102975 (HTML) | ISBN
9781487102968 (PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Yoon, Jin-me, 1960- | LCSH: Yoon, Jin-me,
1960-—Criticism and interpretation. |
LCSH: Artists—Canada—Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies.
Classification: LCC N6549.Y66 T53 2022 | DDC 709.2—dc23
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