1:1 Artists Select: Jin-me Yoon | Robert Rauschenberg

The impulse to make connections between objects is a nearly universal experience. Artists are always in dialogue with their predecessors and peers, and they often make astute curators.

1:1 Artists Select is a new initiative that invites artists to select a work from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s extensive collection to be displayed in dialogue with their own work in the Forecourt.

The fourth to participate is Vancouver–based artist Jin-me Yoon. She has selected a work from the collection by Robert Rauschenberg.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jin-me Yoon was born in 1960 in Seoul, Korea, and studied at the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr College of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and Concordia University, Montréal. Yoon is known internationally for her photography, video, performance and installation works that situate her personal experience of migration in relation to unfolding historical, political and ecological conditions. The Vancouver Art Gallery organized a solo exhibition of her work in 2022, and her art first entered the Gallery’s collection in 1995.

Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Born in 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg’s experimental methodologies blur the distinctions between traditional categories of painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. From billboard-sized prints to intimate drawings and large-scale fabric constructions, he is best known for work that comments on how the mass media shapes contemporary life. His art first entered the Gallery’s collection in 1967.