About
Joy Kinna is a freelance artist living and working just outside of Vancouver, BC Canada.
Joy has always been enthralled by the experience of art making itself. The feeling of her hands engaging with the materials, the moments before and after mark making, and the subtle shifts in seeing the natural world around her. Her work is the accumulation of: feelings, memories, landscape, subconscious and conscious thoughts that form into colours and shapes that she interacts with on canvas. Her work is primarily driven by the way she experiences the world visually, through the mental notes she takes as she goes about her day to day. Another key part to her practice is the fact she has grown up surrounded by the landscape of the coast and this is a major theme that continues to bring life and vision to her work.
Joy is passionate about the unique and integral impact artwork can have within a space. She believes that art can be a fulfilling experience in the spaces we dwell.
JOY KINNA CV
1997, Born in Langley BC, Canada
Lives and works just outside of Vancouver BC, Canada
CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – 22nd, June – My Morning, Your Night, Sugarlift Gallery, (New York, USA)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022, Good Things Take Time, at Sundays, (Vancouver, Canada)
2022, Joy Kinna x Barter, at Barter Design, (Vancouver, Canada)
2018, Emerging Artist: Joy Kinna, The Reach Gallery, (Abbotsford, Canada)
2016, Artist Spotlight: Joy Kinna, Watershed Arts, (Langley, Canada)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, Texture, Liz Lidgett Gallery, (Des Moines, USA)
2022, Seattle Art Fair, Sugarlift Gallery, (Seattle, USA)
2022, To Have It So Good, Liz Lidgett Gallery, (Des Moines, USA)
2020, Together Alone, Fort Gallery, (Fort Langley, Canada)
2017, Lighthouse Voyage, Cecil, (Calgary, Canada)
EDUCATION
Studied Fine Arts & Design 2015-2019
COLLECTIONS OF WORKS
2023: 'My Morning, Your Night'
2023: ‘More Of This, Less Of That’
2022: ‘Good Things Take Time’
2022: ‘The Sound Of The Sea’
2022: ‘SP22’
2022: ‘Small Works’
2022: ‘Through The Window’
2021: ‘Night and Day’
2021: ‘Equanimity’
2021: ‘Neutrals Cont.’
2021: ‘Neutral Series’
2020: ‘Stones Under Rushing Water’
2020: ‘Foraging Colour’
2020: ‘Sea Study’
2020: ‘Detaching’
2019: ‘A Collection Of Black: In the Dark’
2019: ‘Shifting’
2019: ‘Sitting Still’
2018: ‘Transitions’
2018: ‘Watermark’
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023, Studio Visit Book Vol-1, Danielle Krysa w/ Arts To Hearts, (Agra, India)
2022, Limited Edition Prints, McGee & Co. / Studio McGee, (Utah, USA)
2022, Limited Edition Prints, The Set, (New York, USA)
2022, Limited Edition Prints, Refined Interiors & Co., (Abbotsford, Canada)
2022, Artist Residency at Baypoint Landing, (Oregon, USA)
2021, The Virtuosos: The Abstract Painter, Xiaomi Global x Inmist Studios, (Chilliwack, Canada) 2020, Mural Installation and Design, ISSUE CO., (Abbotsford, Canada)
2018, Mural Wallpaper Design, Anewall, (Vancouver, Canada)
PRESS & BRAND PARTNERSHIPS
McGee & Co. / Studio McGee
Xiaomi Global
Vancouver Sun
Hunter & Folk
Hjelle
Sundays
Mosaic Homes
Abel
Oliver Simon Design
Kroft
A NABER DESIGN
Refined Interiors & Co.
Free Label
Leclair Design Firm
Ashley Gaughan Interiors
LAUREN RITZ DESIGN | LRD STUDIO Greige Luxury Interiors
Joy has work in private collections worldwide including Canada, USA, Australia, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Norway, Germany, and Mexico to name a few.