HUA JIN 靳华
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Hua Jin is a visual artist born in China, who lives and works in Montreal Canada. Jin received her MFA degree at
Concordia University in Montreal, and her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Jin’s
mediums are photography, installation, and video. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout
Canada, China and the United States, as well as in Mexico and Holland. Jin has profited from several residencies, and
she has received over 30 prestigious awards and grants, which includes the first Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts Award
given by the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Jin’s works are featured in private and public collections, including
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Foreign Affairs, Canada Art Bank. Her projects are supported by the Canada
Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ). As a Chinese-Canadian artist, Jin’s way of
thinking is inherently rooted in Eastern culture and philosophy. Jin’s works contemplate the idea of permanence and
change, of the passing time and of the evanescent quality of existence. She is particularly interested in the subject of
nature and landscape. Her recent artistic practice focuses on the spiritual and meditative aspects of nature as well as
its related history and human stories.
Hua Jin thanks for the support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec.
EDUCATION:
2016 MFA in Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2012 BFA, Fine Art Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 (upcoming) Canton-sardine, Vancouver, BC.
2022 - 2023 Sometimes We Look, Sometimes We see, Biosphere Museum, Montreal, QC.
2020 Invisible Forces, curated by Iris Amizlev, presented by La Castiglione at Projet Casa, Montreal, QC
2019 Dundee, Centre Culturel Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montreal, QC
2019 Into the Woods, Conseil des arts de Montréal, QC
2019 My Big Family, Photo Gaspésie, Chandler, QC, Canada
2019 The Trees Want to Remain Quiet, But The Wind Won't Stop, 2017 树欲静，而风不止, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Contact Photography Festival Feature Exhibition, Toronto
2019 Dundee, Capture Photo Festival Selected Exhibition, Vancouver
2019 Flowers and Monsters, Hua Jin & Ari Bayuaji, The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire
2018 Dundee, Lianzhou Foto 2018, The Wind of Time, Lianzhou, China.
2018 Peony, Capture Photo Festival, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver
2017 Moonlight, Capture Photo Festival, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver
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 Visions Fu Meng & Hua Jin, 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 Untitled, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 My Big Family, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2011 My Big Family, Asia Pacific Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 My Big Family, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION:
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 LE TIRAGE UNIQUE, Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 Art 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 At Three Miles an Hour, Skaftfell Residency Program at Strondin Studio, Seyeisfj?reur, Iceland
2019 Common Waters, Cambridge Art Galleries and BRIDGE, Cambridge, Ontario. Canada
2019 Territory II, In Satellite with Momenta, Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2018 RMG Exposed 2018, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery Oshawa, Canada.
2018 Connections, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 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
2016 Fine Arts Graduating Students Exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2015 Fall Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2015 Crossroads - Scotiabank 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, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
2014 MFA Open Doors Exhibition, MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2014 Conversing in the Passing of Time, FOFA Gallery, curated by Sally Lee, Montreal, Canada
2013 Lishui Photography Festival, Zhejiang Lishui, China
2013 Capture Photography Festival, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2013 EGO, ZhouB Art Centre, Chicago, USA
2013 Ultramodern, MFA Exhibition, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2013 Centre A's 14th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Emily Carr Award Winner Show, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Centre A's 13th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Spring Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
2011 Connecting the Dots, Five Sixty-560, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 15,000 Words, Cutty Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Centre A's 12th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 SNAP! Live Auction, Toronto, ON, Canada
2011 (Re)Presenting Protest: Art as an Act of Protest, Amnesty International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Centre A's 11th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2008 Centre A's 9th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 China Earthquake Relief Fundraising Silent Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Artist and Organizer)
2007 Presence, National Forum for Culturally Diverse Organizations, Toronto, Canada
2007 CHINESE WALLS, WALLS ART Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
2006 RESTLESS - Contemporary Photography and New Media, MOCA Shanghai, China
PUBLIC ART:
2023 (upcoming) Zoom Art Project, Laval, QC, Canada.
2023 Charlesbourg Elementary School Public Art, Quebec City, Canada.
2021 The Art of Haiku, Peace Park Arboretum, Dorval, QC.
2021 The Permanent Collection on Display, Hua Jin & James Nizam, Parc Edgewater, Pointe-Claire, QC.
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 Festival, Barrie, ON, Canada.
SCENOGRAPHY:
2022 Seulement toi, Marilene Basttien & Anne Plamondon, with the work of visual artist Hua Jin,
Dance performance Choregraphie Anne Plamondon, QC, Canada.
PHOTOBOOK:
2023 Dundee, VU Publication, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
SELECTED AWARDS:
2023 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Research and Creation Project Grant
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Project Grant
2019 Coup de Coeur de la 37e Edition 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, Project Grant
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Artists
2017 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, Project Grant
2017 Reconnection Project Grant, Museum of Fine Art Montreal, Montreal, QC
2017 Scotia bank Contact Photo Festival 2017 Burtynsky Grant shortlisted
2017 Research and Creation, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
2016 Acquisition and Marketing Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
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 Joyce Melville Memorial Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal
2014 Graduate Student Mobility Award, 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
2013 British Columbia Art Council Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Emerging Artist of the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2012 First-place winner in the Canon Photography Awards, 2012 Emily Carr Grad Award, Vancouver, Canada
2011 2011 Top 20 Chinese Emerging Contemporary Photographers, Zhejiang, China
2011 British Columbia Art Council Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 John Jordan Memorial Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Tamarissa Hoskin Memorial Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 Winner of SnapStar photo competition, Toronto, ON, Canada
2010 Maisie Anne Robertson Memorial Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship, Vancouver, BC, Canada
COLLECTION:
2023 Canada Art Bank, Canada,
2020 MU, Montreal, QC, Canada,
2020 Conseil des arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Rivest Tremblay Tétreault law firm, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Hydro-Québec, QC, Canada
2020 City of Montreal, QC, Canada
2019 Canada Foreign Affairs, ON, Canada
2019 Desjardins Collection, Canada
2019 Stewart Hall Art Gallery, QC, Canada
2018 Montreal Museum of Fine Art, QC, Canada
2006 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
ARTIST RESIDENCY:
2020 Assemblages, Book-making Residency, VU Centre, QC, Canada
2019 International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada
2019 Wanderlust, Skaftfell Thematic Residency, Iceland
2018 Ayatana Artistic Research Program, Ottawa, Canada
2017 Centre Sagamie, Alma, Quebec, Canada
2017 Breath: Canadian & Chinese Artists Co-habitation-Co-creation Residence Project, Beijing, China
2017 Van Art Farm Residency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016 Vermont Studio Residency, Vermont, US
2013 Hammock Residency, Vancouver BC, Canada
ARTIST TALK:
2023 UBC Botanical Garden, BC, Canada
2022 John Abbott College, QC, Canada
2019 La Castiglione Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2019 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2019 The Stewart Hall Cultural Centre, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada.
2018 Asia Pacific Art and Culture Association, Montreal, QC, Canada
2017 Viridian Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 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
PUBLICATIONS:
2022 “2020 Visual Diary”, Chinese Photography, China, March 2022
2021 “2020 Visual Diary", Popular Photography, China, May 2021
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' Research Annual
2018 Dundee, Chinese Photographers, Nov 2018.
2014 "Through the Body: Lens-Based Works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists", Contact Photography Festival.
2013 “Traditional Chinese Medicine” VISION, Shanghai, China
2013 “My Big Family” Shandong Photography, Shandong, China
2012 "My Big Family: Hua Jin at Richmond Art Gallery", by Cayley Malo, Decoy Magazine, May 8, 2012
2012 "Photography Exhibit Explores Impact of China’s Child Policy", by Matthew Hoekstra, Richmond Review, Friday, April 20, 2012
2011 China Photo Press Newspaper, Beijing, China, December 2011,
2011 “My Big Family”, TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography, China, June 2011
2011 “My Big Family”, Marie Claire, China, June 2011
2011 Lena Sin, "Jin's intimate portrait", The Province, January 28, 2011, Vancouver, BC.
2010 WOO, Emily Carr University's Student Publication, October 2010, Vancouver, BC.
2010 Jia Za Zhi, online Magazine http://blog.jiazazhi.com/2010/10/hua-jin/, China
2009 Photo Album, Frankie magazine, Australia
2007 VISION, Shanghai, China
2007 0086, Shanghai, China
2006 RESTLESS, MOCA publication, Shanghai, China
2006 Shanghai Photograph, Shanghai, China
2005 Shanghai 1800-0600, Shanghai, China