She is a contemporary visual artist, utilizing performance, photography and video to explore themes of identity as it relates to citizenship, culture, ethnicity, gender, history, nationhood and sexuality.
[4] Her father relocated to Vancouver in 1966 to study Pathology, and the rest of the Yoon family joined him in 1968, shortly after the Canadian government ended decades-long immigration restrictions that discriminated on the basis of race.
During that time, she became fascinated by the photographic images of consumerism she came across in National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, and luxury magazines that were available in the waiting room of her father's medical practice.
[8] In 1991, the artist produced a work entitled Souvenirs of the Self,[9] which explores the relationship between notions of self and the Other within dominant images of the Canadian landscape, most noticeably those shaped primarily by tourism.
Formally tipping the vertical city of skyscrapers and bipedal humans onto a horizontal plane, Yoon evokes subliminal and inchoate associations with both the past and the present.