윤 정 미 JeongMee Yoon
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1969, she majored in painting at Seoul National University, Seoul, photography design at Hongik University, Seoul, and studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
As a winner of the Daum Prize in 2006, she held a successful solo exhibition at Kumho Museum of Art in South Korea, and ‘The Pink and Blue Project‘ book was published by the Parkgeonhi Foundation (Seoul, South Korea) in 2007, and 'Animal Companions' book was published by IANN publisher (Seoul, South Korea) in 2015. She won the first Prize at The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong with ‘The Pink & Blue Project II’ in 2011, and the Ilwoo Photography Award in Seoul, South Korea, in 2018. Also, she received the DongGang International Photography Award in Seoul in 2023. ‘The Pink & Blue Project’ book was published by Hatje Cantz publisher in Germany in 2018, and ‘ Framed in Colors’ book was published by Frontdoor publisher in Seoul in 2024.
Yoon’s works have been illuminated not only by numerous group exhibitions at museums in Europe, USA, Asia, but also by high-profile solo exhibitions of The Pink & Blue Project showed at Gallery Inn in Seoul, South Korea, Jenkins Johnson Gallery in New York, San Francisco, and La Caja Blanca Gallery in Spain. Her works has also been collected by enterprises and both prominent museums around the world.
Through the classification of objects and colors in her photographs, Yoon creates a visual aesthetic that examines modern consumer culture in her ongoing work 'Pink and Blue Project', offering a sociological document about material possessions and peoples' connections to them. Yoon's projects,
Her work had been featured in LIFE Magazine cover (2007), New York Times (2008), National Geographic (2017). Her works are the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Santa Barbara Museum or Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art etc.
서울대학교 미술대학교에서 서양화과를 졸업하고, 홍익대학교에서 사진을, 미국 뉴욕의 School of Visual Arts 에서 Photography, Video and Related media 를 전공했다.
'동물원'(갤러리보다, 1999), '자연사박물관'(갤러리보다, 2001),에 이어 '핑크 & 블루 프로젝트'로 서울, 뉴욕과 스페인에서 개인전을 가졌으며, 미국, 유럽 등에서 전시했으며, LIFE지 표지(2007), New York Times(2008), Telegraph(영국, 2008), National Geographic(2017) 등에 작품이 소개되었으며, 휴스톤 미술관, 산타 바바라 미술관, 필라델피아 미술관 등에 작품이 소장되어 있다.
분류와 사회/문화적인 면에 대한 관심을 현대적인 사진어법으로 보여주고 있으며, 커가는 아이들의 모습과 함께, 그들의 변해가는 색에 대해 취향과 소유물 등을 통해 현대 사회의 한 단면을 보여주는 다큐멘터리적인 요소와 문화인류학적인 면을 엿볼수 있는 '핑크 & 블루 프로젝트' 외에도, ‘It Will Be a Better Day_근대소설’, ‘반려동물’ 시리즈 등의 작업이 있다. 또 다른 작업으로는 ‘반려식물’, ‘애착인형’, ‘컬러 프로젝트’ ‘소설’ 등의 시리즈가 있다.
주요 수상경력으로는 다음작가상 (2006), 소버린 아시아 예술상 그랑프리 (홍콩, 2012), 일우 사진상 (출판부문, 2018), 동강 사진상 (2023)을 수상했다. 작품집으로는 ‘박제된 색들 (Framed In Colors, 프론트도어, 2024), ‘핑크 &블루 프로젝트’ (핫체 칸츠, 2018), (박건희 문화재단, 2007), ‘It Will Be a Better Day_근대소설’ (핑캔블루, 2014), ‘반려동물“(이안, 2015)이 있다.