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Heejoon Lee
Heejoon Lee
Seoul, South Korea, b. 1988

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Seoul, South Korea, b. 1988
Heejoon Lee creates abstract paintings from images of the natural world. In 2012, he earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Sculpture from Hongik University, and a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Glasgow School of Art in 2014. In this way, the artist collects, edits, and brushes the accumulated experiences and daily images obtained from travels from close surrounding to distinct locations, and incorporated them into geometric shapes. The composed instant images add the texture and time of the accumulated paint to generate a new space on the canvas. In addition to the photo collage and thick matière geometric shapes in <The Tourist> in 2020, the artist shifts his focus from minor objects to the surrounding landscape and extends the visual experience beyond abstract painting to the experience of space in which architecture and painting coexist.
2014
M.F.A. Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2012
B.F.A. Painting and Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Education
2019
First prize winning of ‘New Hero’ award, Public Art magazine, Seoul, Korea
2017
Nominated for ‘Essay & Image’ in Art World magazine, Seoul, Korea
2016
Nominated for ‘New Look’ in Art and Culture magazine, Seoul, Korea
Award
2023
<Scaffolding>, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022
<Heejoon Lee>, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
2021
<Raw, Polished, Coated>, Space So, Seoul, Korea
Solo exhibition
2023
<Discovery: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea>, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, USA
2023
<2023 KUMHO YOUNG ARTIST>, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022
<Tender Embrace>, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
Group exhibition
2021
Incheon Art Flatform, Incheon, Korea
2013
Neoterismoi Toumazou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Residency


20 May 2021 - 11 Jul 2021
Shrunk and became a point, disappearing
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
18 Jul 2023 - 27 Aug 2023
Discovery: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, USA
5 May 2023 - 11 Jun 2023
Scaffolding
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea