JEEYOUNG LEE
ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT
JeeYoung Lee is a media artist based in Seoul, Korea, known for transforming her small studio into expansive dreamscapes that visualize her inner world. Working without digital manipulation, she hand-builds immersive, surreal environments inspired by personal memories, Korean folklore, and subconscious emotions—then photographs herself within them before dismantling the entire scene. Each image serves as the sole record of her meticulous, theatrical process.
Lee’s ongoing body of work, Stage of Mind, explores themes such as anxiety, joy, and transformation through symbolic, handmade sets filled with unexpected objects—paperclips, mice, eggs—crafted entirely by the artist. Her practice fuses performance, installation, and photography, challenging the boundaries of the photographic medium.
She gained early international recognition as a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2011 and went on to win the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012. Her breakout solo exhibition outside Korea, Stage of Mind with OPIOM Gallery (France, 2014), catapulted her into global visibility, garnering over half a million views on Reddit in just two days and widespread coverage from CNN, Huffington Post, NBC News, China Daily, and more.
Lee’s work has been exhibited globally—from San Francisco and New York to Singapore, Istanbul, and Sydney—and collected by major institutions including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), OCI Museum of Art (Korea), and the Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture. Following her successful solo show DAZED: Stage of Mind at Gallery Kong in Seoul, the exhibition traveled to France, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Brazil. Her inclusion in group exhibitions include Photography Istanbul, Yapi Kredi bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey, Narration of Healing, Lotte Gallery Gwangbok, Busan, Korea, 29 Rooms, Refinery29, New York, USA, Imaginarium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, and Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.
JeeYoung Lee is a media artist based in Seoul, Korea, known for transforming her small studio into expansive dreamscapes that visualize her inner world. Working without digital manipulation, she hand-builds immersive, surreal environments inspired by personal memories, Korean folklore, and subconscious emotions—then photographs herself within them before dismantling the entire scene. Each image serves as the sole record of her meticulous, theatrical process.
Lee’s ongoing body of work, Stage of Mind, explores themes such as anxiety, joy, and transformation through symbolic, handmade sets filled with unexpected objects—paperclips, mice, eggs—crafted entirely by the artist. Her practice fuses performance, installation, and photography, challenging the boundaries of the photographic medium.
She gained early international recognition as a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2011 and went on to win the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012. Her breakout solo exhibition outside Korea, Stage of Mind with OPIOM Gallery (France, 2014), catapulted her into global visibility, garnering over half a million views on Reddit in just two days and widespread coverage from CNN, Huffington Post, NBC News, China Daily, and more.
Lee’s work has been exhibited globally—from San Francisco and New York to Singapore, Istanbul, and Sydney—and collected by major institutions including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), OCI Museum of Art (Korea), and the Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture. Following her successful solo show DAZED: Stage of Mind at Gallery Kong in Seoul, the exhibition traveled to France, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Brazil. Her inclusion in group exhibitions include Photography Istanbul, Yapi Kredi bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey, Narration of Healing, Lotte Gallery Gwangbok, Busan, Korea, 29 Rooms, Refinery29, New York, USA, Imaginarium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, and Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.
Lee’s ongoing body of work, Stage of Mind, explores themes such as anxiety, joy, and transformation through symbolic, handmade sets filled with unexpected objects—paperclips, mice, eggs—crafted entirely by the artist. Her practice fuses performance, installation, and photography, challenging the boundaries of the photographic medium.
She gained early international recognition as a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2011 and went on to win the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012. Her breakout solo exhibition outside Korea, Stage of Mind with OPIOM Gallery (France, 2014), catapulted her into global visibility, garnering over half a million views on Reddit in just two days and widespread coverage from CNN, Huffington Post, NBC News, China Daily, and more.
Lee’s work has been exhibited globally—from San Francisco and New York to Singapore, Istanbul, and Sydney—and collected by major institutions including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), OCI Museum of Art (Korea), and the Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture. Following her successful solo show DAZED: Stage of Mind at Gallery Kong in Seoul, the exhibition traveled to France, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Brazil. Her inclusion in group exhibitions include Photography Istanbul, Yapi Kredi bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey, Narration of Healing, Lotte Gallery Gwangbok, Busan, Korea, 29 Rooms, Refinery29, New York, USA, Imaginarium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, and Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, USA.
Stage of Mind Exhibition: Interview with Jee Young Lee | K11 Art Space, 2015
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