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{{Short description|Canadian artist}}
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[[File:Art Mur Installation Jinny Yu.jpg|thumb|Jinny Yu's "Story of a Global Nomad", Exhibition view, Art Mûr gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2008.]]
'''Jinny Yu''' (born 1976)<ref name="AiC">{{cite web |title=Artists in Canada |url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?lang=en&rID=46230 |website=Canadian Heritage | date=17 October 2012 |publisher=Government of Canada |accessdate=16 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Drain">{{cite web |title=Jinny Yu |url=http://drainmag.com/jinny-yu/ |website=Drain Magazine |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref> is a Canadian artist working primarily in the fields of painting and installation art.
==Life and work==
Jinny Yu was born in [[Seoul, South Korea]].<ref name="AiC"/> She immigrated to [[Canada]] in 1988, settling in [[Montreal]].<ref name="AiC"/><ref name="CCCA">{{cite web |title=CCCA Artist Profile for Jinny Yu |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/jinny_yu |website=The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art |publisher=University of Concordia |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref> 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. Yu participated in several artist residencies—in Berlin and Beijing, and at the [[Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity|Banff Centre]] in Alberta—before teaching in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa in 2007.<ref name="Burant 2022">{{Cite book |last=Burant |first=Jim |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ottawa-art-and-artists/key-artists/jinny-yu/ |title=Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-4871-0289-0 |location=Toronto |language=English}}</ref> Today, she serves as Professor at the [[University of Ottawa]].<ref name="Concordia">{{cite web |title=Jinny Yu |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/cv/english/yu-cv.html |website=Concordia University |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref> Yu resides in Ottawa, Canada.<ref name="AiC"/>
Yu's painting series, ''Story of a Global Nomad'', in 2007-2008, examined the socio-economic impact of architecture. Along with that series, Yu's work ''Sequence'', 2009, established her artistic reputation.<ref name="Burant 2022"/> 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.<ref name="BAC">{{cite web |title=Jinny Yu |url=http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/artists/22632 |website=Brooklyn Arts Council |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref> In 2015, Yu exhibited the site-specific work ''Don't They Ever Stop Migrating?'' during the 56th [[Venice Biennale]] at the Oratorio di San Ludovico.<ref name="Burant 2022"/> The installation work used [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1963 film ''[[The Birds (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]].<ref name="Agnes">{{cite web |title=Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? |url=https://agnes.queensu.ca/search-our-collections/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=Jinny+Yu&record=0 |website=Collections |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref>
==Notable collections==
*''Don't They Ever Stop Migrating?'', Ink on fabric and sound installation, 2015, [[Agnes Etherington Art Centre]]<ref name="Agnes"/>
*''Ball'', Oil on mirror, 2014, [[Ottawa Art Gallery]]<ref name="OAGColl1">{{cite web |title=Firestone Collection of Canadian Art & Ottawa Art Gallery's Permanent Collection |url=https://oaggao.ca/collectionsearch/search.php?action=searchbox&lang=eng&search1=Search&q=Jinny+Yu |website=Ottawa Art Gallery |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref>
*''Story of a Global Nomad (Multiple Trees)'', oil and graphite on aluminum, 2007, [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]]<ref name="MNBAQ1">{{cite web |title=Story of a Global Nomad (Multiple Trees) |url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/oeuvre/600038852 |website=Collections |publisher=Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec |accessdate=16 December 2018|language=fr}}</ref>
*''Story of a Global Nomad (De Vonk 1)'', oil and graphite on aluminum, 2007, [[Canada Council]]<ref name="Artbank">{{cite web |title=Story of a Global Nomad (De Vonk 1) |url=https://artbank.ca/art-piece/story-of-a-global-nomad-de-vonk-1/ |website=Art Bank |publisher=Canada Council |accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref>
==Further reading==
*Burant, Jim. ''[https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ottawa-art-and-artists/ Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History.]'' Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-4871-0289-0}}
*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==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://jinnyyu.com/}}
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[[Category:21st-century Canadian women painters]]