Special Tour of Jin-me Yoon’s Scotiabank Photography Award Exhibition at The Image Centre

Join Vicki Kwon, associate curator, Korean Art & Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, for a special tour of Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoon, on view in The Image Centre’s Main Gallery and University Gallery from April 29–August 5, 2023.

Free and open to the public.
No registration required.

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About the exhibition
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.

Organized by The Image Centre and presented by Scotiabank in partnership with CONTACT. With additional support from Partners in Art, Korean Cultural Centre, and Superframe.

About Vicki Kwon
Vicki Kwon is an associate curator of Korean Art and Culture at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), where she oversees Canada’s largest collection of Korean art and cultural heritage. Kwon has taught the arts of Korea, 20th century art in East Asia, and art as social practice in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, where she received her PhD degree in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture. Prior to joining the ROM, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, at Seoul National University and a researcher of Changdong Residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea.

About Jin-me Yoon
Over the last three decades, Korean-born Vancouver-based Jin-me Yoon has been presented in over 200 exhibitions across North America, Asia and Australia, as well as select institutions worldwide. Most recently, one of her films screened at the Venice Biennale, she was presented in a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a touring survey organized by the Musée d’art de Joliette. Yoon is represented in 20 public and corporate collections; she received the prestigious Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, was shortlisted for the Art Gallery of Ontario Grange Prize, and was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada, recognized for her research contributions in art.