Jin-me Yoon is a Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist living and working on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Since the early 1990s, her lens-based practice has critically examined the construction of self and other in relation to her own direct and inherited history, as well as within broader geopolitical contexts. Unpacking stereotypical assumptions and dominant discourses, Yoon’s work has examined gender and sexuality, culture and ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood. Adopting a wider and wider lens over time, her practice has become a deep investigation into entangled local and global histories existing at specific sites within the context of transnationalism.

Yoon’s practice, which stretches over thirty years, has witnessed the presentation of her work in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions across North America, Asia, and Australia, as well as select institutions worldwide. Her work is held in seventeen Canadian and international public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Seoul Museum of Art.

As Professor of Visual Arts at Simon Fraser University, she has mentored many students over the years, and has delivered guest lectures throughout Canada and the United States, as well as in Korea, Mexico, Ireland, Japan, Spain, and India. In 2009, she was selected as a finalist for the Grange Prize (AIMIA, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Photography Prize); in 2013, she was awarded the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; in 2017, Yoon was included in Landmarks/Repères, one of twelve leading Canadian artists commissioned to make work for Canada’s 150th anniversary. Recognized for her research contributions in the field of art, in 2018, Jin-me Yoon was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada, a council of distinguished Canadian scholars, scientists, and artists. In 2022, she won the prestigious Scotiabank Photography Award, celebrating excellence in Canadian contemporary lens-based art.