HUA JIN 靳 华 / [email protected] / Instagram
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Hua Jin is a visual artist born in China who currently lives and works between Montreal and Vancouver, Canada. Jin received her MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal and her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Jin has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows across Canada, China, the United States, Mexico, Holland, and Iceland. One of her works is permanently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, and her large-size photo works were exhibited at the Canadian Pavilion during International EXPO 2020 in Dubai. Jin has participated in several residencies and has received over 30 awards and grants, including the inaugural award of Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts presented by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal. Jin's works are featured in private and public collections, including the Canada Art Bank, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Global Affairs, the City of Montreal, the Montreal Art Council, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
Jin's practice includes photography, video, and installation. Nature serves as her primary source of inspiration. As a Chinese-Canadian artist, Jin's way of thinking is inherently rooted in Eastern culture and philosophy. Her focus centres on nature and landscape, akin to that of an ancient Taoist, dedicated to contemplating the "way" of being. Jin is fascinated by the invisible energy guiding the rhythm within the circle of life. Through visual representations of various facets of natural life, she aims to depict this rhythmic flow, convey its hidden wisdom, and illustrate the diverse phenomena in the ecological world. Through her work, Jin strives to produce a profound sense of awe for nature while instilling a sense of awakening—recognizing the interconnections and interdependence between various forms of life through contemplative visual experiences. Jin is drawn to the profound beauty inherent in nature, which uplifts the spirit, recognizing its profound contribution to human well-being. Additionally, Jin's work delves into concepts of permanence and change, the passage of time, and the transient nature of existence.
Jin is particularly interested in exploring the spiritual, inspirational, and meditative aspects of nature, She believes that only by interpreting human narratives from nature's perspective—a broader viewpoint—can we realize that our shared commonalities transcend our differences.
Jin appreciates the support for her many projects from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).
EDUCATION
2015 MFA, Studio Arts: Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2012 BFA, Fine Arts Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming) Canton-sardine, Vancouver, BC.
(upcoming) Flow, Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Center , QC, Canada
The Things We Cannot See, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
2022 - 2023 Sometimes We Look, Sometimes We see, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC.
2020 Invisible Forces, with Iris Amizlev(curator), La Castiglione (at Projet Casa), Montreal, QC Canada
2019 Dundee, Centre Culturel Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montreal, Canada
Into the Woods, Conseil des arts de Montréal, QC, Canada
My Big Family, Photo Gaspésie, Chandler, QC, Canada
The Trees Want to Remain Quiet, But The Wind Won't Stop, Contact Photography Festival Featured Exhibition,
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Dundee, Capture Photo Festival selected exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
Flowers and Monster, Hua Jin & Ari Bayuaji, The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC
2018 The Wind of Time, Lianzhou International Foto Festival 2018, Guangzhou, China.
Peony, Capture Photo Festival, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017 Moonlight, Capture Photo Festival, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016 Undulating Landscape - Hua Jin & Neil Goodman, The Research House for Asian Art (RHAA), Chicago, USA
Don’t Look You Will See, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Compound Vision - Hua Jin & Fu Meng, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 Don’t Look, You Will See, Concordia University MFA gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
CHECKPOINT - Hua Jin & Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Festival Accés Asie, Maison de la culture de Cote-des-Neiges, Montréal, Canada
2012 My Big Family, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2011 My Big Family, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Breathing/Responding: A Canadian-Chinese artist’s exchange project, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada
Maison modèle Benefit Exhibition, Centre Clark, Montreal, QC, Canada
The Beginning of Spring, Town Hall of Wappingers Falls, NY, US
2022 Culture China The 4th Global Overseas Chinese Artist Exhibition in Working: Women in Art Practice,
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2021 Fine Art Exhibition, Canadian Pavilion at International EXPO, 2020, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Deux par deux | Buissonnière exposure, Galerie B-312, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Unique Photo Exhibition, Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 ARTS OF ONE WORLD, Curated by Iris Amizlev, Erell and Laura Vigo, Stephan Crétier and Stéphany Maillery Wing,
Museum of Fine Art Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Temporary Files, Centre Sagamie, Alma, Quebec, Canada
Territory II, in Satellite with Momenta, Marie-Josée Rousseau (curator), Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
At Three Miles an Hour, Strondin Studio, Seyeisfjoreur, Iceland
Common Waters, Cambridge Art Galleries and BRIDGE, Ontario, Canada
2018 Reconnection, Museum of Fine Art Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2017 Second Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival 2017, Mexico
Zoom on Montreal, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montreal
2016 Gazing into Water (featured exhibition), Xishuangbanna International Photo Festival, Kunming, China
2015 Fall Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Crossroads, Contact Photography Festival, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 PhotoFourm, Les Territoires Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Through the Body: Lens Based Works by Chinese Women Artists, Contact Photo Festival,
University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2014 Conversing in the Passing of Time, FOFA gallery, Montreal, Canada
Untitled, Capture Photography Festival, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2013 EGO (Exploitation, Glorification, Objectification), ZhouB Art Centre, Chicago, USA
Ultramoderne, MFA Exhibition, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2012 Emily Carr Award Winner Show, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 2011 Top 20 Chinese Emerging Contemporary Photographers, Zhejiang Art Museum,Hangzhou, China
PUBLIC ART
2023 Zoom Art Project, Laval, QC, Canada.
2023 Rainbow, Charlesbourg Elementary School Public Art, Quebec City, Canada.
2022 - 2023 Sometimes We Look, Sometimes We see, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC.
2022 The Art of Haiku, Dorval, QC, Canada.
2021 The Permanent Collection on Display, Hua Jin & James Nizam, Parc Edgewater, Pointe-Claire.
SCREENING
2023 20 Minutes and 28 Seconds of Sunset, 10th annual Korean Film Festival Canada.
2022 20 Minutes and 28 Seconds of Sunset, Hello Winter, Barrie, ON, Canada.
SCENOGRAPHY
2022 Seulement toi, Marilene Basttien & Anne Plamondon, Montreal QC, Canada.
PHOTO BOOK
2023 Dundee, VU Publication QC, Canada
SELECT ART FAIRS & AUCTIONS
2022 ESSE Benefit Auction, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 ART TORONTO, online, Canada
2019 ART TORONTO, Toronto, Canada
Papier, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 Papier, Montreal, QC, Canada
2013 Centre A's 14th Anniversary Fundraising Auction show, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Centre A's 13th Anniversary Fundraising Auction show, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 SNAP! Live Auction, Toronto, ON, Canada
2009 China Earthquake Relief Fundraising Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCY
2020 Assemblages, VU Centre, Quebec City, QC, Canada
2019 37th Contemporary Art International Symposium of Baie Saint-Paul, QC, Canada
Wanderlust, Skaftfell Thematic Residency, Iceland
2018 Biophilia, Ayatana Residency, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2017 Centre Sagamie, Printing Residency Alma, Quebec, Canada
Breathing: Canadian & Chinese Artists Co-habitation-Co-creation Residence Project, Beijing, China
Van Art Farm Residency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016 Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, US
SELECTED ARTIST TALK
2023 Artist Talk, FOG-UBC Botanical Garden, BC, Canada
2022 COP15 - Panel discussion on biodiversity as a source of inspiration, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC. Canada
Artist talk, John Abbott College, Montreal, QC, Canada
Artist talk, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC. Canada
2019 Territory II, In Satellite with Momenta, La Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 Asia Pacific Art and Culture Association, Montreal, QC, Canada
2017 Viridian Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015 CBC, “The National” interview, Montreal, QC, Canada
2014 University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2012 CBC, “North by Northwest” interview, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2011 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2022 “2020 Visual Diary”, Chinese Photography, China, March 2022
2021 “2020 Visual Diary", Popular Photography, China, May 2021
2020 “Territoires II”, Christian Roy, Ciel Variable, No114. Winter 2020, Quebec, CA
2019 “Hua Jin: Dundee”, by Christian Roy, Vie des Arts, Quebec, Oct 08, 2019
Germinating Herbarium, A book of Botanical Art, Issue 1 of The Ayatana Artists's Research Annual
“Vertigo”, Le Sabord, Trois-Rivières, Québec, 2019
2018 Montreal Has a New Art Award, Canadian Art by Leah Sandals, Dec 4, 2018
“Dundee”, Chinese Photographers, Nov, 2018.
COLLECTIONS:
2023 Canada Art Bank, Canada
2020 Hydro-Québec, QC, Canada
Montreal Art Council, QC, Canada
Mu, Montreal, QC, Canada
City of Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 Desjardins Collection, Canada
Stewart Hall Art Gallery, QC, Canada
Canada Foreign Affairs, ON, Canada
2018 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC, Canada
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
SELECTED AWARDS:
2023 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Research and Creation Grant.
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation in the Visual Arts.
2019 Coup de C?ur de la 37e édition du Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, QC.
Canada Council for the Arts, International Residency Program in the Visual Arts.
2018 Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts Award, The Conseil des arts de Montréal
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation in the Visual Arts.
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Artists.
2017 Museum of Fine Art Montreal, Montreal, QC, Reconnection Project Grant.
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Research and Creation Grant.
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Acquisition and Marketing Grant.
2016 Canada Council for the Arts, International Residency Program in the Visual Arts.
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts.
Vermont Studio Artist / Writer Grant, Vermont, US
2015 The Fine Arts Travel Award, Concordia University, Montreal
Joyce Melville Memorial Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal
2013 Michael-Smith Foreign Study Supplement Scholarship, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
Joseph-Amand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
2012 Emerging Artist of the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Arts, Vancouver, BC, Canada
First-place winner in the Canon Photography Awards, 2012 Emily Carr Grad Award
2011 Top 20 Chinese Emerging Contemporary Photographers, Zhejiang, China