About Galerie Youn
The art gallery focuses on building bridges between local, national and international emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. It currently represents two dozen artists, about half from Canada and the rest from the United States, Europe and Asia.
Located on Boulevard Saint-Laurent in the heart of the dynamic and creative Mile End district of Montréal, the art gallery presents a number of carefully selected solo and group exhibitions each year.
In its short few years, the gallery has participated in more than a dozen art fairs across Europe and North America, from Seattle to Miami, New York, and Madrid.
Galerie Youn is now closed. Gallery Director Juno Youn is working on something new and exciting. See you soon!
— History of Galerie Youn
With its main entrance on Saint-Paul Street West in the heart of Old Montreal, Galerie Youn’s new location offers 1,650 square feet of exhibition space. Imagine it:
To your left, the project room with its white marble-tiled floor and original brown wooden walls from the 19th century. Expect to see large sculptures and installations or large-scale photographs by our artists.
The main gallery, unlike our former space, is wide and open. Its drop ceiling has LED lighting built in and the floors are hardwood. This is where you’ll see our wonderful solo and group exhibitions. At the far left, the open room will be our additional exhibition space. Here we’ll display highlights from past exhibitions and showcase gallery artists.
This new location is set in Montreal’s oldest neighbourhood, on Montreal’s first Main Street, offering old-world charm set against a modern backdrop. With restaurants, boutique hotels, bistros, and wine bars nearby and paid parking next door, Galerie Youn has become a destination in its own right. Gallery owner Juno Youn had his eye on this particular Montreal jewel of a space for over fourteen years. It’s your turn now to discover why!
ABOUT GALERIE YOUN
Galerie Youn keeps on reinventing itself: In 2021 alone, it launched a full-service online boutique and moved to a sleek and elegant new space located at the heart of historic Old Montreal. Galerie Youn presents a number of carefully selected solo and group exhibitions each year, which can be experienced in person or toured virtually.
Originally founded as the online art gallery Flying Rooster Contemporary Projects (FRCP) in 2012, Galerie Youn opened as a brick-and-mortar space in May 2013 on Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montreal. In the spring of 2021, when a location gallery owner Juno Youn had had his eye on for over fourteen years became available, Galerie Youn left the Mile-End for Old Montreal.
Galerie Youn focuses on building bridges between local, national and international emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. It currently represents two dozen artists, about half from Canada and the rest from the United States, Europe and Asia. Galerie Youn regularly takes part in art fairs across Europe and North America, from Seattle to Miami, New York, and Madrid.
As of 2018, Galerie Youn’s book catalogs are part of the permanent collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library, the central research library of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET).
Juno Youn, originally from South Korea, is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU) where he majored in drawing, painting and interdisciplinary arts. He is a visual artist in his own right.
Youn’s previous project, SPIN Gallery (Toronto), was in operation from 1999 to 2007.
In 2013, Juno Youn was named as one of Médiamosaïque’s “Diversity Top 20 Personalities of the Year” in Quebec. And in 2018, Youn is co-chair of the ARTSIDA auction, an annual art auction fundraiser that supports Aids Community Care Montréal (ACCM). He was also featured in The Globe and Mail’s list of Canada’s Best Dressed 2018.
Galerie Youn won Time Out Montreal's 2021 Best of the City award for Best Gallery.