JEEYOUNG LEE

ARTIST BIO & ARTIST STATEMENT

JeeYoung Lee, a media artist based in Korea, shoots the “invisible” offering excerpts from her heart, her memory, and her dreams. Restrained by the inherent limits of the conventional photographic medium, she adds plastic creativity and theatrical performance to it to blow life into her immense needs of expression and interrogation.

“Analyzing the self is one of the motivating factors for me in creating. People try to capture a moment in time in photography all the time. We always go back to these images to remember the moment. The mental landscape that I capture on camera is the same. It is a personal record that helps me document and reflects my life.”

Recipient of multiple artistic awards including the Sovereign Art Prize (2012), JeeYoung Lee is one of the most promising up-and-rising figureheads of the younger Korean artistic world. Following the success of her first solo show “DAZED:Stage Of Mind” at Gallery Kong in Seoul, the exhibition traveled to France, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Brazil. Her work has been featured in the worldwide media and has been collected by Osan Culture Foundation, Osan, Korea; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan; Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Art Bank, Incheon, Korea; OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; CAN Foundation, Seoul, Korea. She has participated in group exhibitions such as ​​Photo + Shift, Kim Bo Seong Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Narration of Healing / Artistry of Healing, Lotte Gallery Gwangbok, Busan, Korea; Photography Istanbul, Yapi Kredi bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey;Beginnings, Forever: From the Collection of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts / Shinnyo-en, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA; 29 Rooms by Refinery29 NYC, NY; A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, USA; Imaginarium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; ArtGate Gallery, New York, USA