The gallery is thrilled to participate in Paris Photo for the first time with a solo presentation by esteemed Korean-Canadian lens-based artist Jin-me Yoon. This is a particularly significant edition of the fair, marking the bicentenary of the invention of photography, and we are delighted to have Canadian conceptual photography be part of this larger international dialogue.

Please join us at Paris Photo at the Grand Palais, Booth D13, November 12–15, 2026!

Long Time So Long

Jin-me Yoon’s Long Time So Long (2022–23) is a multidisciplinary project spanning photography, video, performance, and sound that explores colonialism, ecological degradation, and collective memory. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic on Iona Island, on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people near Vancouver, the project unfolds in a landscape shaped by industrial development and environmental damage. Through masked figures drawing on traditional Korean talchum dance and contemporary emojis, Yoon employs humour and absurdity to examine displacement, resistance, and possibilities for renewal. The project includes a single-channel video, Long Time So Long (2023), acquired alongside photographs from the series by the National Gallery of Canada in 2024, and the immersive 24-channel sound installation Somatic Soundings (Long Time So Long) (2023). Created in collaboration with members of Vancouver’s Korean community, the sound work uses stethoscopes to record internal bodily sounds, transforming intimate physiological rhythms into an immersive installation that explores embodied memory, healing, and collective experience. Works from the project have been exhibited at The Image Centre, Toronto (2023); Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam (2023); Vancouver Art Gallery (2024–25); and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2025).

Link to video

Link to sound installation

Jin-me Yoon

www.jin-meyoon.com

Jin-me Yoon (b. 1960, Seoul, South Korea) is a Vancouver-based artist and a leading figure in Canadian conceptual photography. For nearly four decades, her practice has explored the intersections of identity, migration, memory, colonialism, and geopolitical histories. Working across photography, video, performance, installation, and sound, Yoon examines how images shape cultural memory and understandings of place and belonging. Her practice emerged within the context of the internationally influential Vancouver School of conceptual photography, known for artists such as Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, and Rodney Graham, while expanding its critical discourse through questions of migration, diaspora, colonialism, and representation.

Since coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Yoon has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally. Her international career began with the 3rd Istanbul Biennial (1992), and has recently included exhibitions at Secession, Vienna (2024); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024–25); and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2025). Major solo exhibitions include About Time at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2022–23) and The Image Centre, Toronto (2023). Her monumental 80-metre photographic installation Honouring a Long View was presented across the façade of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (2024–26).

Yoon received the Scotiabank Photography Award (2022), one of Canada’s most prestigious distinctions in contemporary photography, accompanied by a major survey exhibition and an extensive monograph published by Steidl, the renowned German photography publisher. Other recent publications include About Time (Vancouver Art Gallery/Hirmer) and Jin-me Yoon: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute), Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct (Phaidon, 2024), and Shine Brightly: Korean Photography Since 1957 (Thames & Hudson, forthcoming 2026).

In 2025, Yoon received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s highest artistic honours, and was named the inaugural recipient of the Kim Byung-Jong Art Award in South Korea, accompanied by an exhibition in Namwon (2026).