Artist Statement
"My Big Family"(2010-present) is a long-term and ongoing project that I started in the summer of 2010. More than just a portrait of my own big family, the project's purpose is to examine the gradual disappearance of the traditional large families in contemporary Chinese society since the inception of the One-Child Policy in 1978. During six months traveling in China, I visited over forty members of my extended family and documented their lives via the media of photography, video and text.

 

 

Phoebe Hua Jin 
www.phoebejin.com
phoebe1024@gmail.com
 
EDUCATION:
2012 BFA in Fine Art Photography at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1995 Degree of Animation, Shanghai Huashan Vocational art school
 
SOLO EXHIBITION:
2012 (upcoming) 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
2007 UNTOLD, Potential Gallery, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
 
GROUP EXHIBITION:
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 Sublime, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Centre A's 11th Anniversary Fundraising Auction, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 Centre A's 10th 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
2005 SHANGHAI 1800-0600, EPSON Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005 CHINA – AZURE, AG - ART Space, Hangzhou, China
2005 LOMO Photography Exhibition, Top Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
 
COLLETION:
2008-2012 private collection
2006 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
 
PUBLICATIONS:
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 Publicaton, 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
 
AWARDS:
2012 First-place winner in the Canon Photography Awards, 2012 Emily Carr Grad Award
2011 British Columbia Art Council Scholarship
2011 John Jordan Memorial Scholarship
2011 Tamarissa Hoskin Memorial Scholarship
2011 Winner of SnapStar photo competition
2010 Maisie Anne Robertson Memorial Scholarship
2009 Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship