Jeongmee Yoon

Jeongmee Yoon
윤정미
Born1969 (age 55–56)
NationalitySouth Korean
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Known forPhotography
Notable work
  • Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things
  • The Pink and Blue Project
  • Space-Man-Space
  • Animal Companions
AwardsSovereign Asian Art Prize – Grand Prize in Asian Art
2011 Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things
Jeongmee Yoon
Hangul
윤정미
Hanja
尹丁美
Revised RomanizationYun Jeong-mi
McCune–ReischauerYun Chŏng-mi

Jeongmee Yoon (born 1969) is a South Korean photographer. She received an MFA in photography, video, and related media from the School of Visual Arts in 2006, and is a professor of photography at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea.[1][2]

Yoon's photography often focuses on human subjects posed within a densely-packed frame among their possessions.[2] Yoon has stated that "[t]his method shows my organization of subjects similar to the way in which museums categorize their inventories and display their collections."[3] As art critic Hyeyoung Shin observes, "Unlike a portrait photography, which focuses only [on] a person, [Yoon] provides environmental information surrounding the subject to contribute not only the visual content but also its form."[2]

Yoon's most notable photography series in this vein is the Pink and Blue Project, which Yoon began in 2005.[4] The Pink and Blue Project documents the blue and pink toys, clothing, books, and other objects collected by American and Korean children.[5][6][7] This project is regularly referenced by scholars studying gender and early childhood in a range of fields, including biology, educational psychology, and media studies.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Another photography series, Space-Man-Space, depicts shopkeepers surrounded by the goods they sell, in tightly packed stalls and kiosks in Seoul's Insadong neighborhood.[2] Similarly, the Animal Companions photo series chronicles relationships between humans, their pets, and the homes they live in.[17]

In 2011, Yoon won the Grand Prize in Asian Art from the Sovereign Art Foundation for her work "Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things."[3] Her work is included in the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress,[18] the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[19][20] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[21][22]

References

  1. ^ "사진" [Photograph] (in Korean). Hongik University.
  2. ^ a b c d Kaye, Joyce Rutter (18 July 2019). "SVA Alumnus and Photographer JeongMee Yoon Focuses on People and Their Possessions". School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  3. ^ a b "Thinking Pink with JeongMee Yoon". The Sovereign Art Foundation. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  4. ^ Kung, Billy (November 14, 2014). "Jeong Mee Yoon". ArtAsiaPacific. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  5. ^ Rosenberg, David (9 April 2013). "Incredible Portraits of Kids' Rooms: Pink Is for Girls, Blue Is for Boys". Slate Magazine.
  6. ^ MacDonald, Kerri (13 October 2014). "Pink or Blue Toys for Girls and Boys". Lens Blog.
  7. ^ Yochelson, Bonnie (24 February 2008). "Pink Is for ..." The New York Times.
  8. ^ Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2012). Sex/Gender : Biology in a Social World. Hoboken: Taylor & amp. ISBN 978-0-203-12797-1. OCLC 798531799.
  9. ^ Grisard, Dominique (2017), Blaszczyk, Regina Lee; Spiekermann, Uwe (eds.), ""Real Men Wear Pink"? A Gender History of Color", Bright Modernity, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 77–96, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50745-3_4, ISBN 978-3-319-50744-6, retrieved 2021-10-15
  10. ^ Konecny, Christina Patricia. 2010. "Preschools and the Pedagogy of Domestication the Ideologically Haunted Landscapes of Early Learning." Order No. MR85579, University of Toronto (Canada). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/25658.
  11. ^ Chappell, Sharon Verner; Lisa Richardson; Karyl E. Ketchum (2018). Gender diversity and LGBTQ inclusion in K-12 schools : a guide to supporting students, changing lives. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-17229-3. OCLC 1033684450.
  12. ^ Pearson, Kim Hai (Fall 2014). "The Sacra of LGBT Childhood". Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. 21: 55–68 – via HeinOnline.
  13. ^ Kearney, Mary Celeste (2010). "Pink Technology: Mediamaking Gear for Girls". Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 25 (2): 1–39. doi:10.1215/02705346-2010-001. ISSN 0270-5346.
  14. ^ Palczewski, Catherine Helen; Victoria L. DeFrancisco; Danielle Dick McGeough (2019). Gender in communication a critical introduction (3 ed.). Los Angeles: Sage. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-5063-5846-8. OCLC 1240716372.
  15. ^ Dennis A. Francis; Jón Ingvar Kjaran; Jukka Lehtonen, eds. (2020). Queer social movements and outreach work in schools : a global perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-41610-2. OCLC 1149619029.
  16. ^ Joel, Daphna; Luba Vikhanski (2019). Gender mosaic : beyond the myth of the male and female brain (1 ed.). New York: Little, Brown Spark. ISBN 978-0-316-53462-8. OCLC 1125981553.
  17. ^ "Animal Companions - JeongMee Yoon's solo exhibition". Korean Artist Project with Korean Art Museums. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  18. ^ Yoon, JeongMee (2005). "Jeeyoo and her pink things; Terry and his blue things". The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  19. ^ "JeongMee Yoon: Seo Woo and her Pink Things". Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
  20. ^ "JeongMee Yoon". Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Seohyun and Her Pink Things". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  22. ^ "JeongMee Yoon". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 October 2021.