Perhaps Yoon’s most iconic work, A Group of Sixty-Seven established Yoon’s position as a Vancouver photographer making conceptual interventions into the History of Art and representations of the nation. For this work, Yoon invited 67 members of the Korean-Canadian community to 3 separate Korean dinners at the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition Art for a Nation. During that dinner, Yoon’s first experiment at the borderlands of conceptual photography and social practice, Yoon led a discussion about experiences of racism in Canada, and symbolically took formal portraits of all participants against two monuments of Canadian landscape painting in the VAG’s collection: Lawren Harris, Maligne Lake, Jasper Park (1924), and Emily Carr, Old Time Coastal Village (1924-30). Through these obviously constructed photographs (signalled through formal repetition), Yoon denaturalizes Harris and Carr’s colonial gazes on the landscape, the assumed disjuncture between immigrants of colour and that landscape, as well as the presumed documentary nature of the photograph itself. 1967 marked 100 years of confederation and the year restrictions were lifted on East Asian immigration to Canada.

- Ming Tiampo