Jinny Yu makes her AGO debut with an exhibition of new works, including oil on aluminum paintings and works on paper. Born in Korea and now based in Ottawa and Berlin, for the past twenty years, she has been an active professional artist and educator,  using abstract and geometric forms to consider the implications of mass migration and rapid social change.  In a departure from her usual practice of exclusively using black paint, here Yu uses vivid colours, transparency and distorted forms to continue questioning what it means to be a guest and a host. This exhibition is curated by Georgiana Uhlyarik, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art, AGO.

Volunteers may be interested to know that Jinny Yu uses Beam paints in this latest series of her work. Beam paints is an Indigenous pigment company, founded by Anong Beam, the daughter of Artists Carl and Ann Beam. Just after the Gallery’s pandemic closure, the AGO hosted an amazing talk with Anong in Baillie Court (my favourite AGO talk of all time!) so I’m linking to the talk, still available to view on the AGO Youtube’s channel, HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EshXCEwnY6A

It’s not to be missed! And a wonderful connection to the exhibition on now.