The final tour of the KCC's <2021 Virtual Artist Studio Visit> series is to Jinyoung Kim's studio in Montreal.
Jinyoung Kim is a Korean-Canadian visual artist living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, on the unceded indigenous lands of Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk nation. Kim uses time-based media to create her works. Kim’s experience of immigrating to Canada during her youth fostered her motivation to create artworks that express lived experiences of displacement. Kim finds herself located between two realities – one in Canada and the other in South Korea, and Kim’s projects are often bridges that relate to those places that shaped her. Kim’s work in the past explored family relationships and places of personal significance. Her photographs and videos are creative documents that offer a perspective that narrates from a place of loss and yearning. She has obtained her BFA from OCAD University and MFA from Concordia University. Her works have been exhibited and screened across Canada and internationally. She has received Prix Lynne Cohen in 2019 from Estate of Lynne Cohen and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and was shortlisted for Prix Pierre-ayot in 2018.
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Jinyoung Kim
She is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Montréal.
About the <Visual Artist Studio Visit> Program
Considering that social distancing is still necessary to overcome the pandemic, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada has presented a series of virtual artist studio visits throughout 2021 to connect artists with their audiences safely from home. As the first season of the program, we have invited eight prominent Korean-Canadian artists to show us how they cope with isolation, what new works they envision, how they visualize them.
Wrapping up the program's first season, the Korean Cultural Centre would like to thank the artists for participating in this pilot project and giving us the privilege to visit their private and sacred spaces.