Jeongmee Yoon

Jeongmee Yoon
윤정미
Born	1969 (age 55–56)
Nationality	South Korean
Education	School of Visual Arts
Known for	Photography
Notable work	Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things The Pink and Blue Project Space-Man-Space Animal Companions
Awards	Sovereign Asian Art Prize – Grand Prize in Asian Art 2011 Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things

Jeongmee Yoon
Hangul	윤정미
Hanja	尹丁美
Revised Romanization	Yun Jeong-mi
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Chŏng-mi

Jeongmee Yoon (born 1969) is a South Korean photographer. She received an MFA in photography, video, and related media from the School of Visual Arts in 2006, and is a professor of photography at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea.^[1][2]

Yoon's photography often focuses on human subjects posed within a densely-packed frame among their possessions.^[2] Yoon has stated that "[t]his method shows my organization of subjects similar to the way in which museums categorize their inventories and display their collections."^[3] As art critic Hyeyoung Shin observes, "Unlike a portrait photography, which focuses only [on] a person, [Yoon] provides environmental information surrounding the subject to contribute not only the visual content but also its form."^[2]

Yoon's most notable photography series in this vein is the Pink and Blue Project, which Yoon began in 2005.^[4] The Pink and Blue Project documents the blue and pink toys, clothing, books, and other objects collected by American and Korean children.^[5][6][7] This project is regularly referenced by scholars studying gender and early childhood in a range of fields, including biology, educational psychology, and media studies.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} Another photography series, Space-Man-Space, depicts shopkeepers surrounded by the goods they sell, in tightly packed stalls and kiosks in Seoul's Insadong neighborhood.^[2] Similarly, the Animal Companions photo series chronicles relationships between humans, their pets, and the homes they live in.^[17]

In 2011, Yoon won the Grand Prize in Asian Art from the Sovereign Art Foundation for her work "Lauren and Carolyn and Their Pink & Purple Things."^[3] Her work is included in the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress,^[18] the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,^[19][20] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.^[21][22]

References

1. "사진" [Photograph] (in Korean). Hongik University.
2. Kaye, Joyce Rutter (18 July 2019). "SVA Alumnus and Photographer JeongMee Yoon Focuses on People and Their Possessions". School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
3. "Thinking Pink with JeongMee Yoon". The Sovereign Art Foundation. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
4. Kung, Billy (November 14, 2014). "Jeong Mee Yoon". ArtAsiaPacific. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
5. Rosenberg, David (9 April 2013). "Incredible Portraits of Kids' Rooms: Pink Is for Girls, Blue Is for Boys". Slate Magazine.
6. MacDonald, Kerri (13 October 2014). "Pink or Blue Toys for Girls and Boys". Lens Blog.
7. Yochelson, Bonnie (24 February 2008). "Pink Is for ..." The New York Times.
8. Fausto-Sterling, Anne (2012). Sex/Gender : Biology in a Social World. Hoboken: Taylor & amp. ISBN 978-0-203-12797-1. OCLC 798531799.
9. Grisard, Dominique (2017), Blaszczyk, Regina Lee; Spiekermann, Uwe (eds.), ""Real Men Wear Pink"? A Gender History of Color", Bright Modernity, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 77–96, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50745-3_4, ISBN 978-3-319-50744-6, retrieved 2021-10-15
10. Konecny, Christina Patricia. 2010. "Preschools and the Pedagogy of Domestication the Ideologically Haunted Landscapes of Early Learning." Order No. MR85579, University of Toronto (Canada). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/25658.
11. Chappell, Sharon Verner; Lisa Richardson; Karyl E. Ketchum (2018). Gender diversity and LGBTQ inclusion in K-12 schools : a guide to supporting students, changing lives. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-17229-3. OCLC 1033684450.
12. Pearson, Kim Hai (Fall 2014). "The Sacra of LGBT Childhood". Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. 21: 55–68 – via HeinOnline.
13. Kearney, Mary Celeste (2010). "Pink Technology: Mediamaking Gear for Girls". Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 25 (2): 1–39. doi:10.1215/02705346-2010-001. ISSN 0270-5346.
14. Palczewski, Catherine Helen; Victoria L. DeFrancisco; Danielle Dick McGeough (2019). Gender in communication a critical introduction (3 ed.). Los Angeles: Sage. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-5063-5846-8. OCLC 1240716372.
15. Dennis A. Francis; Jón Ingvar Kjaran; Jukka Lehtonen, eds. (2020). Queer social movements and outreach work in schools : a global perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-41610-2. OCLC 1149619029.
16. Joel, Daphna; Luba Vikhanski (2019). Gender mosaic : beyond the myth of the male and female brain (1 ed.). New York: Little, Brown Spark. ISBN 978-0-316-53462-8. OCLC 1125981553.
17. "Animal Companions - JeongMee Yoon's solo exhibition". Korean Artist Project with Korean Art Museums. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
18. Yoon, JeongMee (2005). "Jeeyoo and her pink things; Terry and his blue things". The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
19. "JeongMee Yoon: Seo Woo and her Pink Things". Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
20. "JeongMee Yoon". Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
21. "Seohyun and Her Pink Things". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
22. "JeongMee Yoon". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 October 2021.