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JUNE JIN ENGELHARTH

Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
www.junejin.com

June Jin Engelharth, b.1977, is an international fine artist based in Her paintings revolve around the modern human being and inner struggle.
Copenhagen, Denmark and Korea. She exhibits her works internationally Human beings who have the world’s cultural history at their disposal
at galleries, art fairs and museums. June Jin works with oil on canvas, while finding their own identities, ambition, beliefs, innovative solutions
oil on plexiglass, and photography. She also combines these artistic and new forms of acquired knowledge. Her models are chosen during her
methods and materials to create new variations. field research, making her works depictions of real people and situations.
Her paintings are a fusion between the old masters and modern design. She has portrayed well-educated businesspeople, royal dancers, royal
She updates the great old master’s techniques and adapts them to the orchestra musicians, female tattoo artists, jet-setters, Caucasians,
modern world in her artistic expression. Asians, Iraqi and Afghan homosexuals, activists and transgenders.
One example is June Jin’s photographic series of Guatemalan Fernanda
Milán, the very first transgender to be granted asylum in Denmark.
She draws her inspiration from the rise of the creative class, in which the
ingredients are talent, technology and tolerance. June Jin emphasises the
significance of a strong creative class, the vital role it plays to economic
and cultural growth and the underlying importance of attracting
innovative minds through a variety of cultural opportunities.

 …& A TRUE GENTLEMAN QUEERED UP FOR BATTLE IN COPENHAGEN, 2014 OIL ON
PLEXIGLAS AND CANVAS 62X50 IN. | 158X128 CM.
 …& DRAWING ON BONES OF ENDLESS BATTLES, 2014 OIL ON PLEXIGLAS 64X80 IN. |
164X204 CM.

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