Jinny Yu

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

Jinny Yu
Born1976 (age 44–45)[1]
Seoul, South Korea[1]
NationalityCanadian[1]
EducationDawson College 1995[2]
Concordia University 1998[2]
Alma materYork University 2002[2]
Known forPainting
Installation art
StyleContemporary art
AwardsLaura Ciruls Painting Award Ontario Arts Foundation[3]
Mid-Career Artist Award Council for the Arts in Ottawa[3]
Jinny Yu's "Story of a Global Nomad", Exhibition view, Art Mûr gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2008.

Life and work

Jinny Yu was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1976.[1] She immigrated to Canada in 1988, settling in Montreal.[1][4] 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. Today, she serves as Professor at the University of Ottawa.[2] 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. 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.[5] In 2015, Yu exhibited a site-specific work, Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? at the 56th Venice Biennale, an installation work that 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.[6]

Notable collections

Further reading
  • 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
  1. "Artists in Canada". Canadian Heritage. Government of Canada. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. "Jinny Yu". Concordia University. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. "Jinny Yu". Drain Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  4. "CCCA Artist Profile for Jinny Yu". The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. University of Concordia. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  5. "Jinny Yu". Brooklyn Arts Council. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  6. "Don't They Ever Stop Migrating?". Collections. Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  7. "Firestone Collection of Canadian Art & Ottawa Art Gallery's Permanent Collection". Ottawa Art Gallery. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  8. "Story of a Global Nomad (Multiple Trees)". Collections (in French). Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  9. "Story of a Global Nomad (De Vonk 1)". Art Bank. Canada Council. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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