About this Artist                 ...please scroll down

 Currently all sales, price & exhibit requests are handled by

Galleri OXHOLM (Copenhagen)

GALLERi LABR (Roskilde) 

GALLERY Hjorth (Horsens)

June Jin was born in the suberbs of Seoul in 1977, within the same year, she got adopted to Denmark. Today, she lives and works in Copenhagen, but does exhibits all over the World.

In 2011 June Jin was named the second greatest art talent in Denmark. In 2012 Activits & photographer Jacob Holt (Known for his "American Pictures") invited her to exhibit with him at the Royal Academy of Art, in Copenhagen. June Jin has recieved numerous stipends, including 3 travelstipends to Korea, where she in 2014 represented International Adoptee artist, for a government funded exhibit in Seoul, Korea. in 2013, she was first shown at the largest International Art Fair, in Scandinavia ART COPENHAGEN, the same year she had her first solo exhibit in Milan, Italy & was shown at the Museum of National History, at Frederiksborg Castle.

BACKGROUND

June Jin has artistically traveled far and wide, before she found her métier as a painter & came out as a full time artist in 2007. After her graduation from Co­­­­­­­llege of visual art & design in 2000, she's been around in decoration for museum exhibits, set decoration for television, TV commercials and also assisted other artist in their art-production, including Peter Land (DK), Rene Schmidt - Rasmussen (DK) & Christian Lemmerz (D). 

FORM OF EXPRESSION

Her expression-form is oil on canvas, oil on plexiglass & photography, and she combines all 3 variations as well.  Her paintings are fusions between the old masters like Rembrandt van Rijn and modern design. This is her way to up-date the great old masters technique to the modern world.

INSPIRATION

June Jin's paintings are inspired by the modern human beings who already have the entire world's cultural history downloaded in their brains while they're chasing around after their own identities, ambition, Growth, innovative fixes and new knowledge. Her paintings also reffers to the Father of the Creative Class, Economist Richard Florida's growht theory. Which contains of 3 main ingredientses: Technology, Talent & Tolerance.

OPERATING

June Jin seeks out models during her research in different kinds of creative enviroments. She has hands on every part of the process from idea, reseach to the final outcome. All depictions of persons in her paintings are authentic - real persons, alive and breething. She has depicted the well educated bussiness people, innovative leaders, a ballet dancer, from the Royal Theater, a Violinist from the Royal Orchestra, a female tattooer, Fellow artists, children of the Creative Class, ethnic homosexuals, transgendered males & females, including Fernanda Milan, from Guatamala, who was the first transperson to get asylum in Denmark, wich created an example to follow in Denmark for Transgendered persons. June Jin was one of the main photographers in a series of Demonstrations regarding the issue.

2011  Group Show, with Gregers Albrechtsen, Martin Fraenkel &

         June Jin, Æglageret, Holbæk Kunstklub, curated by Gregers Albrechtsen

Censor:

2011   "Downstairs" annually overall photo competition 2010

Decoration:

2006   Room 16, Tisvildeleje Strandhotel

1998   Group Mural in Svømme Center Falster

courses & education:

2011   Photo & lightning

2010    Painting the figure

2009   Painting the figure

2008   the Portrait

           Digital photography

2007   Crash course, Photoshop

2007   Classisc drawing, Glyptoteket/Thorvaldsens

2006   Dreamweaver, Artlab.

2005   Lifecast course by John Schoonrad, www.lifecast.co.uk

           Courses at Specialeffekt master Kapper Creations:

           Avancerede mouldings

           Latex & uriol moulding

           Silicone moulding

           Polyestermoulding

           Crash Course Lifecasting, plaster & alginat

2000   BA Graduate from College of Visual Art & Design/

           Håndarbejdslærer/Voksenunderviser i Billedkunst & Formgivning/

           Seminariet for Formgivning. 

           Acrylics/ Oil/ watercolour, colour knowlege, drawing, printing, Design,    

           cheramics,Sculpture & moulding.

           art history, Social studies, Paedagogy og suppliance.

           Paedagogy major: research & developement.

           (projectmanaging, operation)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Projects & freelance work

2012   Set-decoration, "Pigen I buret", Zentropa

2009   Set-decoration, "Den som Dræber" TV2/Miso Film

2008   Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations

2007   Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations/Peter Land

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations/Peter Land

           Model building, Kapper Creations/Bates

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations

2006   Set-decoration, scenografi til DRs VM studie

           Set-decoration, scenografi”Familien Teddy ”, Papirtårnet og TV2

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations/C. Lemmertz

           Full Bodylifecast, Kapper Creations/Eksperimentariet

           Model building, Kapper Creations

2005   Set-decoration, Kapper Creations/ Bates/Telia

           Set-decoration, ” Snowqueen”, Isabel Kristensen/ United Exhibits, Lyngby.

           Set-decoration, ”Snowqueen”, Isabel Kristensen/ United Exhibits, Slagelse.

           Set-decoration  på Dinosaurus udstilling, United Exhibits, København.

           Lifecast assistent,Kapper Creations/C. Lemmertz

2004   Set-decoration på “Dawn  Of  The Human Spirit”/ edutainment exhibit

           Deutche Arbeitsschutz Museum, Dortmund.

2003   Set-decoration “Dawn  Of  The Human Spirit”./ edutainment exhibit.

           United Exhibits Cph Show room.

           Set-decoration, på ”Dino opsætning”, Aalborg zoo./ edutainment exhibit. 

           Set-decoration, “Dawn  Of  The Human Spirit”/ edutainment exhibit,UEG

2002    Set-decoration “Back Yard Monsters”, Butterfly Pavillion, Denver.

            Set-decoration  “Back Yard Monsters”/ edutainment exhibit        

            Natureum,Niederelbe   

2001    Set-decoration of “Dawn  Of  The Human Spirit”. / edutainment exhibit.

            Installing it at, Naturalis, Leiden Holland.

            Project manager “Kulør på Hjortegården”, BOSH.

            Purpose: to create an activity for kids as a social project for underprivileged

            children.(Including teaching colour knowlege, sketching and guiding the 

            children in the making of 3 large svale murals and 3 large scale paintings for

           the interioer complex.

            Sculptor/ Set-decorater, Building the edu-tainment exhibit

            “Dawn  Of     The Human Spirit", version A”. (building artifical  types of

            mountain, decoration of same at installing it at the National history museum, 

            Copenhagen.

News

Visit the studio»

You can visit the June Jin studio in Copenhagen, please make an appointment.

About June Jin