Nuova Icona è lieta di annunciare venerdì 4 settembre l’inaugurazione della mostra personale di
Jinny Yu “Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating?” presso l’Oratorio di San Ludovico.
Jinny Yu’s site specific installation at the Oratorio di San Ludovico in Venice comprises of a large
three-dimensional painting and an audio work.
Reflecting on the recent migration crises in the
Mediterranean and Bay of Bengal, her new work Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating? continues on
the analysis of one’s complex position in the this globalized world. Using excerpts from Hitchcock’s
The Birds as metaphor, the exhibition explores a range of our emotional responses and attitudes
as society towards mass migration.
Born in Seoul (Republic of Korea) and based in Ottawa (Canada) and Venice (Italy), Jinny Yu’s work
has been shown widely, including exhibitions in Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy, Portugal, South
Korea, UK and USA in various museums, public art galleries, artist-run centers, international art
festivals, art fairs, and commercial galleries: McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton), Richmond Art
Gallery (Vancouver) Ottawa Art Gallery, Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), Galerie
du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), St. Mary’s University Art
Gallery (Halifax), Produzentengalerie plan.d. (Düsseldorf), Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto),
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Kunst Doc Art Gallery (Seoul), Conduit Street Gallery at
Sotheby's (London), Pulse New York and Miami Beach and ISCP Gallery (New York). She was an
artist in residence at the International Studios and Curatorial Program in New York, Nanji Art
Studios in Seoul, and The Banff Centre for the Arts.
Yu, who is Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Ottawa, was awarded the Mid-
Career Artist Award by Council for the Arts in Ottawa in 2013; Laura Ciruls Painting Award from
Ontario Arts Foundation in 2012; and was a finalist for the Pulse Prize New York 2011. Her work
has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and le Conseil des
Arts et des Lettres du Quebec.