VANCOUVER.- For a limited time from October 15, 2022 to March 5, 2023, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents Jin-me Yoon: About Time, featuring Vancouver artist Jin-me Yoon’s significant artwork of the last decade. Frequently combining photography, video and installation, Yoon’s recent work is distinguished by a poetic, cinematic aesthetic. Earlier this year, Yoon was the recipient of the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award, celebrating excellence in Canadian contemporary photography.

Yoon emerged in the city’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s, and her lens–based works have often been linked with the formal aesthetic of the Vancouver School of Photoconceptualist artists and theorized within the identity politics of race and gender of the period. About Time is a significant solo exhibition that provides fresh perspectives on Yoon’s artistic practice.

“The Vancouver Art Gallery’s new exhibition About Time marks the first major presentation of Jin-me Yoon’s works to be shown on the West Coast,” said Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. “Jin-Me Yoon: About Time is emblematic of the Gallery’s enduring commitment to presenting the contemporary art of Asia and its diasporas to provide a better understanding of the multiple art histories of our time. The Gallery’s pursuit of interdisciplinary research is evident throughout this exhibition.”

About Time shifts the focus from Yoon’s earlier practice toward her recent monumental and multifaceted production. In these layered works, Yoon continues to address the subject matter of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism and militarism, but with a politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on unceded, ancestral Indigenous lands.

The exhibition dispenses with a chronological approach to Yoon’s artistic trajectory, instead reflecting on her ongoing prioritization of the constellations of relations between people and places across time and space. “Time” is a construct often explored in Yoon’s practice. Her works contemplate time as measured in the geological, as well as in the human, sense of passing and aging.

Jin-me Yoon: About Time will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue, co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Hirmer, with new photography and text contributions from five brilliant writers, scholars, curators and art historians, who have all worked with Yoon at various stages of her career.

Jin-me Yoon is a Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist whose practice stretches over thirty years. Her work has been presented in over 200 solo and group exhibitions across North America, Asia and Australia, as well as at select institutions worldwide. Her work is held in several major Canadian and international public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Seoul Museum of Art.