JINNY YU

JINNY YU

JINNY YU is a painter and Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. A native of Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Yu moved to Montreal in 1988. Having migrated more than once, she is constantly dealing with a feeling of detachment, non-belonging and “afloat-ment.” The distances she has travelled as a global nomad have allowed her to observe and concurrently detect and understand situations with an outsider’s perspective. Another consequence of her nomadic life is the constant dwelling in the in-between space that is neither here nor there, neither this nor that. This fascinating “liminal” space, though not always comfortable, is where she explores her work.

While continuing to investigate the conceptual, social, historical, and formal relationship of space and painting, Ms. Yu’s current practice explores the physicality of painting. Her works seek to exist somewhere between materiality and illusion. Rather than perceiving them as dichotomic or binary, she is seeking an oscillation between the two. This liminal space that she explores can be metaphorically seen as where she roams as a global nomad.

Ms. Yu’s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Canada, United States, Japan, Italy, and United Kingdom. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the du Maurier Arts Council (2001), and Concordia University. Her works can be found in numerous museum, corporate, and private collections including the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Ernst & Young, ICI Canada Inc., and the Mills Foundation. Ms. Yu has an M.F.A. from York University, an M.B.A. from York University, and a B.F.A. from Concordia University.


CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION
2002 Master of Business Administration, Arts and Media Administration, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Ontario
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSONS (*) EXHIBITIONS

2012 General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, November 2012
2012 Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, Quebec, September 2012
2012 Kunst Doc Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea, August 2012
2012 “Cadenza”, La Galerie d'art Stewart Hall, Montreal, Quebec, September 2012 *
2011 “Latest from New York”, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2011 Solo presentation at Pulse New York Contemporary Art Fair, New York
2011 “Walk Like an Egyptian”, ISCP New York, Brooklyn *
2011 “Cadenza” Confederation Centre of the Arts Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada, curated by Ihor Holubizky (catalogue) *
2010 About Painting, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2008 Ceiling Painting (A tigress’ wedding day), AXENE07, Gatineau, Québec
2008 Story of a Global Nomad, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2005 Me(n)tal Perspectives, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2005 Me(n)tal Perspectives, Spoke Club, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Interlace III, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal, Québec
2004 Interlace II, Elizabeth Anne Seton Memorial Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2004 Interlace I, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
2003 modules II, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2002 modules I, The Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2000 Paysages, Maison de la Culture N.-D.-G., Montréal, Québec
1999 Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
1998 Complexe du Canal Lachine, Montréal, Québec

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012, “60 Painters”, Humber College, Toronto, Canada (catalogue), May 2012
2012, GwangHwaMun International Art Festival, SeJong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
2012, Scope New York, New York
2012 Papier 12 Contemporary Art Fair, Montreal
2012 PMG Editions Project, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa
2012 Abstractions/Distractions, Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia
2011 Cadenza, Confederation Centre of the Arts Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
2011 “Art Secret”, Galeria dos Leões, University of Porto, Portugal
2011 “Outside - In”, BOS2011, Studio 49B, Bushwick, New York
2011 “BWYLove”, Rema Hort Mann Foundation fundraiser, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2011 “32 Below”, St. Cecilia Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, “Abstractions/Distractions” Kamloops Art Gallery, B.C., Canada, curated by Annette Hurtig (catalogue)
2011 “Enlightenment, Innovation & Revolution: The Long 18th Century” McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada, curated by Ihor Holubizky (catalogue)
2010 “Optimism Packs” organized by Rena Leinberger, in exhibition “Still Action”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Elissa Papendick and Libby O’Bryan
2010 “The Triumph of The Therapeutic”, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2010 “Primer” Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2009 Breathing Out, Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Ulsan City, South Korea
2009 The Collection’s Cabinet, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Microcosm, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2009 Construction Work, Three-person exhibition with Josée Dubeau and Lorraine Gilbert, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Venice: City of Dreams?, Conduit Street Gallery, Sotheby’s, London, United Kingdom
2006 Different Strokes, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Me(n)tal Perspectives & Flexible Spaces, Two-person exhibition with Francine Lalonde, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2006 Tende a infinito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2005-06 Transitive, Kabat Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; and City Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia
2005 Showcase: 05, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2004 Neo Vessel, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2004 La Fabriq, Montréal, Québec
2004 Accumulations, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
2004 Galerie 12, Centre Culturelle Aberdeen, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
2004 Maison de la culture Plateau/Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec
2004 Interference, The Warren G. Flower Gallery of Dawson College, Montréal, Québec
2003 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2003 mixed media, four-person exhibition with David Urban, Michael Adamson and Christian Giroux, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Les Femmeuses, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Longueil, Québec
2003 Art @ suite 500, Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Salle comble, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2002 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Keep Six, Anoush Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2002 Exposition Enc(h)antée, Ecomusée du fier monde, Montréal, Québec
2002 Sincerely, The Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Des finitions urbaines, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2001 The MFA Show, The Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Benefit Art Auction, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
2000 L’association des peintres coréens du Québec, La Cabosse d’Or, Québec
2000 Côté cour, côté jardin, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2000 Début de collection, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec
2000 Benefit Art Auction, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
2000 Artbox 2000, Miles S.Nadal Management Centre, Toronto, Ontario

PUBLICATIONS
2010 Construction Work, (Exhibition catalogue), Essay by Dr. Petra Halkes, Carleton University Art Gallery
2010 Ceiling Painting (A tigress’ wedding day), (Exhibition catalogue), Essay by Dr. Celina Jeffery, Galerie AXENÉO7
2009 Taehwa River Eco Art Festival 2009, (Exhibition Catalogue), Essays by Hong Sun-hoan, Dongseop Kim and Hyewon Choi, Ulsan City, South Korea
2009 Constructed Realities, exhibition catalogue, essay by Sandra Dyck, Carleton University Art Gallery
2009 A Review of the Exhibition Construction Work: Lorraine Gilbert, Josée Dubeau, Jinny Yu, Drain Magazine, www.drainmag.com, by Dr. Édith-Anne Pageot
2009 Carleton University Art Gallery”, www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=271, by Deborah Margo
2009 Carleton U's art gallery scene of "Construction" exhibit, CBC Radio One, Art with Dipna Horra, www.cbc.ca/ottawamorning/art.html
2009 Incompletion and Disturbance: Construction Work at CUAG, The Leveller, Ottawa, vol 1, no 2, March 2 to 15, 2009, p. 14, by Randy Innes
2009 Construction Work: Renovation Spirits, Canadian Art online,
www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/03/05/construction-work/Canadian Art, by Emily Falvey
2009 Art and Architecture at Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Citizen, By Maria Cook
2008 Exhibition catalogue, Galerie AXENÉO7
2008 Jinny Yu (Monograph) Essays by Antonio Foscari, Emily Falvey and Édith-Anne Pageot, University of Ottawa Press and Éditions Art Mûr
2008 “Jinny Yu,” monograph, essays by Antonio Foscari, Emily Falvey and Édith-Anne Pageot, University of Ottawa Press and Éditions Art Mûr
2008 “Jinny Yu,” exhibition review, Border Crossings: A Magazine of the Arts, Arts Manitoba Publications Inc., no. 107, Fall 2008, pp. 179-180, by James D. Campbell
2007 “Venice: City of Dreams?” exhibition catalogue, Sotheby’s, Conduit Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom, January, pp. 66, 67, 71
2006 “Tende a infinito: Giovani artisti e un concetto matematico,” exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy, pp. 87-89
2006 “Giovani artisti, tendenza all’infinito,” exhibition review, La Nuova, Venice, Italy, April 28
2006 “Jinny Yu: Me(n)tal Perspectives,” exhibition publication, text by Ken Allan, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2005 Exhibition review, The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo, section C1, Arts, Saturday, August 27
2005 "Where It's At," exhibition review, Echo, vol. 8, no. 49, pp. 23/38, by Lauren Hall
2004 Neo Vessel, vol. 3, exhibition catalogue, Areum Network, Japan
2004 “Interlace: Paintings by Jinny Yu,” exhibition review, Vie Des Arts, Montréal, no. 194, Spring, p. 93, by Virgil Hammock
2003 Overseas Korean Artists Yearbook, catalogue, vol. 3, Jinsol Books Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea, pp. 104-107

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 Laura Ciruls Painting Award, Ontario Arts Foundation and Ontario Arts Council
2011 Finalist, Pulse Prize, Pulse New York Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2010 International Residencies Program in Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts
2010 Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2010 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Research Grant, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Professional Artist Grant (Type B), Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2001 Artist Grant, du Maurier Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario
1999 Artist Grant, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
1998 Heinz Jordan Painting Award, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1997 David L. Stevenson Memorial Scholarship, Concordia University, Montréal
1997 Stanley Mills Purchase Prize, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec

COMMISSIONS
Summer 2010, Interior of chapel Sant’Isidoro, in Nate, Trichiana, in province of Belluno, Italy September 2009, Installation work for the TEAF09, Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Ulsan City, South Korea

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006- Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2005-06 Research Fellow, TeDIS (Centre for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems), Venice International University, Venice, Italy
2003-05 Assistant Professor, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2012 Nanji Art Studio, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010-11 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, New York
2010 Confederation of the Arts Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
2010 Pan! Peinture, Painting symposium, Québec City, Québec
2005 Bei Gao Artist Residency, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2004 Stiftung Starke, Gemeinnutzige Kunststiftung, Berlin, Germany
1999 Thematic Residency Landscape, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta

ARTIST TALKS / PAPER IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2011 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, “Artist-talk”
2009 York University, Toronto, Canada, “Artist-talk”
2009 Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, “Artist-talk”
2008 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, “Artist-Talk” series hosted by the Painting and Drawing department, Faculty of Fine Arts
2007 Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference (Paper title: “Mediation in Abstraction” in the panel “The Optical Outskirts of Abstraction”), University of Waterloo, Canada
2006 Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, “Artist-talk”
2005 Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea, Lecture in MBA course “Audience Development”
2005 NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada, Artist-talk in “Noon-hour Talk”
2003 Cegep Rosemont, Montreal, Canada, Forum Educatif organized by Espace VOX
1999 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Artist-talk in 3rd year drawing course

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (REVIEWS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES)
“Who said art teachers can’t paint? Jinny Yu struts her stuff at Patrick Mikhail Gallery” by Paul Gessell, Ottawa Magazine, Oct 14, 2011
Vellum Artzine, http://www.vellumonline.com/walking_around_w_artzine_armory.html
“Comix-Inspired Sculpture and Portraits of Lindsay Lohan Lend a Youthful Beat to the Pulse Art Fair: Armory Week 2011” by Kate Deimling, www.artinfo.com, March 4, 2011
“Go To Church: Art in a Convent”, Village Voice, New York, NY, by Sharyn Jackson, Feb. 2, 2011
“Jinny Yu”, Vie des Arts - English Edition, n°220, Fall 2010, p. 18-19, review by Virgil Hammock
Construction Work, (Exhibition catalogue), Essay by Dr. Petra Halkes, Carleton University Art Gallery, 2010
Ceiling Painting (A tigress’ wedding day), (Exhibition catalogue), Essay by Dr. Celina Jeffery, Galerie AXENÉO7, 2010
Taehwa River Eco Art Festival 2009, (Exhibition Catalogue), Essays by Hong Sun-hoan, Dongseop Kim and Hyewon Choi, Ulsan City, South Korea, 2009
“A Review of the Exhibition Construction Work: Lorraine Gilbert, Josée Dubeau, Jinny Yu”, Drain Magazine, www.drainmag.com, by Dr. Édith-Anne Pageot
“Carleton University Art Gallery”, www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=271, March 29, 2009, by Deborah Margo
“Carleton U's art gallery scene of "Construction" exhibit”, CBC Radio One, Art with Dipna Horra, www.cbc.ca/ottawamorning/art.html, March 23, 2009
“Incompletion and Disturbance: Construction Work at CUAG”, The Leveller, Ottawa, vol 1, no 2, March 2 to 15, 2009, p. 14, by Randy Innes
“Construction Work: Renovation Spirits”, Canadian Art online, http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/03/05/construction-work, March 5, 2009, by Emily Falvey
“Art and Architecture at Carleton University Art Gallery”, Ottawa Citizen, February 25, 2009, By Maria Cook
“Jinny Yu at Axeneo7”, www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=246, December 9, 2008, by Deborah Margo
“Jinny Yu”, Border Crossings: A Magazine of the Arts, Arts Manitoba Publications Inc., Issue No. 107, Fall 2008, p. 179-180, by James D. Campbell
Jinny Yu (Monograph) Essays by Antonio Foscari, Emily Falvey and Édith-Anne Pageot, University of Ottawa Press and Éditions Art Mûr, 2008
Venice: City of Dreams? (Exhibition Catalogue) Sotheby’s, Conduit Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom, January 2007, pp.66, 67, 71 (ISBN 978-1-870282-57-4)
“Giovani artisti, tendenza all’infinito”, La Nuova, Venice, Italy, April 28 2006
“Where It's At”, Echo, Vol. 8, No. 49, p. 23/38, by Lauren Hall
The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo, Section C1, Arts, Saturday, August 27, 2005
Neo Vessel, Vol. 3, (Exhibition Catalogue) Areum Network, Japan, Nov. 2004 (ISBN4-434-05503-8)
Overseas Korean Artists Yearbook, Volume 3, Jinsol Books Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea, 2003
“Interlace: Paintings by Jinny Yu”, Vie Des Arts, Montreal, No. 194, Spring 2004, p.93, by Virgil Hammock
“A threat to innocence”, The Gazette, Montreal, February 15, 2003, by Henry Lehmann
“Bitume revisité”, Le Devoir, Montréal, June 23, 2001, by Marie-Ève Charron
“Cultivating a garden of imagination: Where nature and culture meet”, The Gazette, Montreal, June 17, 2000, by Henry Lehmann
“Refreshing Show offers glimpse of future”, The Gazette, Montreal, July 26, 1997, p.J6. by Henry Lehmann

COLLECTIONS
Canada Council Art Bank; City of Ottawa; Cogeco Inc.; Crown-Meakins Inc.; General RE Insurance; Gilden Activewear Inc.; Greenbriers co.; Holbrook Ronald & Associates Landscape Architects; Ernst & Young - Canada; Europe’s Best Inc.; ICI Canada inc.; Mills Foundation; Collection du prêt d’oeuvres d’art at Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec; and Private collections in Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Italy, France and South Korea


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