HUA JIN 靳 华 / [email protected] / Instagram
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Biography
Hua Jin is a visual artist born in China and based in Montreal, Canada. Her practice spans photography, video, and installation. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Jin has exhibited in North America, Asia, and Europe. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Canada Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the City of Montreal, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai. Her large-scale photographs were presented at the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. She has participated in numerous artist residencies and received more than 30 awards and grants, including the inaugural Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts Award from the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Artist Statement
Nature is both a subject and a teacher in Jin’s practice. Informed by Taoist thought, she approaches the natural world through close observation, attending to subtle changes and invisible forces that shape our experience of it. Her photographs, videos, and installations translate natural rhythms and flows into contemplative visual and spatial experiences.
Her work explores impermanence, transformation, and the interconnectedness of life. For Jin, nature is a source of spiritual and meditative reflection, offering a wider perspective from which to consider human experience. Through her work, she invites a sense of wonder and a deeper awareness of our relationships with other living things and our surroundings. By situating human narratives within the natural world, she seeks connections that extend beyond personal experience and cultural boundaries.
Jin gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).
Biographie
Hua Jin est une artiste en arts visuels née en Chine et établie à Montréal, au Canada. Sa pratique englobe la photographie, la vidéo et l’installation. Elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise en arts plastiques (MFA) de l’Université Concordia et d’un baccalauréat en beaux-arts (BFA) de l’Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Jin a exposé en Amérique du Nord, en Asie et en Europe. Ses œuvres font partie de collections publiques et privées, notamment celles de la Banque d’art du Conseil des arts du Canada, d’Affaires mondiales Canada, du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, de la Ville de Montréal, du Conseil des arts de Montréal et du Musée d’art contemporain de Shanghai. Ses photographies de grand format ont été présentées au pavillon du Canada à l’Expo 2020 de Dubaï. Elle a participé à de nombreuses résidences artistiques et reçu plus de trente prix et bourses. Elle a notamment été la première lauréate du Prix de la diversité culturelle en arts visuels, décerné par le Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Démarche artistique
Dans la pratique de Jin, la nature est à la fois un sujet et une source d’enseignement. Nourrie par la pensée taoïste, sa démarche repose sur une observation attentive des phénomènes naturels. Elle s’intéresse aux changements subtils et aux forces invisibles qui façonnent notre expérience du monde. Ses photographies, vidéos et installations traduisent les rythmes et les flux de la nature en expériences visuelles et spatiales propices à la contemplation.
Son travail explore l’impermanence, la transformation et l’interdépendance du vivant. Pour Jin, la nature est une source de réflexion spirituelle et de méditation, offrant une perspective plus vaste sur l’expérience humaine. À travers ses œuvres, elle invite à l’émerveillement et à une conscience plus aiguë des liens qui nous unissent aux autres êtres vivants et à notre environnement. En inscrivant les récits humains dans le monde naturel, elle cherche à mettre en lumière des liens qui dépassent l’expérience personnelle et les frontières culturelles.
Hua Jin remercie le Conseil des arts du Canada et le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) pour leur soutien.
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 Visual Diary, Canton-sardine, Vancouver, BC.
2024 Flow, Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Center , QC, Canada
2024 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
2019 Into the Woods, Conseil des arts de Montréal, QC, Canada
2019 My Big Family, Photo Gaspésie, Chandler, QC, Canada
2019 The Trees Want to Remain Quiet, But The Wind Won't Stop, Contact Photography Festival Featured Exhibition,
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada
2019 Dundee, Capture Photo Festival selected exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2019 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.
2018 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
2016 Don’t Look You Will See, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 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
2015 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
2026 Women's Image Library, Contact Photo Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
2025 The Photographic Book in Quebec: Current Perspectives, Artexte, Montreal, QC, Canada
2025 The 5th International Localize Imagine Festival, Changsha, China
2023 Breathing/Responding: A Canadian-Chinese artist’s exchange project, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, Canada
2023 Maison modèle Benefit Exhibition, Centre Clark, Montreal, QC, Canada
2023 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
2021 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
2019 Temporary Files, Centre Sagamie, Alma, Quebec, Canada
2019 Territory II, in Satellite with Momenta, Marie-Josée Rousseau (curator), Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 At Three Miles an Hour, Strondin Studio, Seyeisfjoreur, Iceland
2019 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
2017 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
2015 Crossroads, Contact Photography Festival, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 PhotoFourm, Les Territoires Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2014 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
2014 Untitled, Capture Photography Festival, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2013 EGO (Exploitation, Glorification, Objectification), ZhouB Art Centre, Chicago, USA
2013 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
2026 ECHO, (upcoming) The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON.
2026 GARDEN, (upcoming) The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON.
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
2019 Wanderlust, Skaftfell Thematic Residency, Iceland
2018 Biophilia, Ayatana Residency, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2017 Centre Sagamie, Printing Residency Alma, Quebec, Canada
2017 Breathing: Canadian & Chinese Artists Co-habitation-Co-creation Residence Project, Beijing, China
2017 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
2022 Artist talk, John Abbott College, Montreal, QC, Canada
2022 Artist talk, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC. Canada
2019 Territory II, In Satellite with Momenta, La Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada
2019 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
2012 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
2019 Germinating Herbarium, A book of Botanical Art, Issue 1 of The Ayatana Artists's Research Annual
2019 “Vertigo”, Le Sabord, Trois-Rivières, Québec, 2019
2018 Montreal Has a New Art Award, Canadian Art by Leah Sandals, Dec 4, 2018
2018 “Dundee”, Chinese Photographers, Nov, 2018.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
2024 Ville de Laval, QC, Canada
2023 Canada Art Bank, Canada
2020 Hydro-Québec, QC, Canada
2020 Montreal Art Council, QC, Canada
2020 Mu, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 City of Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 Desjardins Collection, Canada
2019 Stewart Hall Art Gallery, QC, Canada
2019 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.
2019 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
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation in the Visual Arts.
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Artists.
2017 Museum of Fine Art Montreal, Montreal, QC, Reconnection Project Grant.
2017 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Research and Creation Grant.
2017 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.
2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants to Professionals in the Visual Arts.
2016 Vermont Studio Artist / Writer Grant, Vermont, US
2015 The Fine Arts Travel Award, Concordia University, Montreal
2015 Joyce Melville Memorial Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal
2013 Michael-Smith Foreign Study Supplement Scholarship, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
2013 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
2012 First-place winner in the Canon Photography Awards, 2012 Emily Carr Grad Award
2011 Top 20 Chinese Emerging Contemporary Photographers, Zhejiang, China
SELECTED WORK DONATIONS:
2024 BC Children Hospital
2024 UNICEF Canada Help Children in Gaza
2020 Relief for communities affected by the landslides in Seyeisfj?reur, Iceland
2008 Wenchuan China Earthquake Relief Donation
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