Hong Lee Hyunsook was born in a mountain village in Jeomchon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Although she majored in sculpture at university, she uses various media such as video installation, performance, and photography. Currently, she works in Gyeonggi-do and Seoul. She is a member of ‘ALiM;’, a group of animal rights seminars which means “Animal lights me”.
Beginning with the exhibition Hidden Energy (Art Center, Seoul, 1995), an exhibition that aims to reveal things that are difficult to see, things in between, or things we do not want to see, we make analogies between places and bodies (people, animals, objects). installation work (National Theater Stairs, 1997·Insa-dong Pedestrian Bridge, 2000·Unification Observatory, 2002). In 2005, she began to express a landscapes where her own body as an artist directly meets a specific place and time through her video work from before her personal time in an alternative space pool. In 2012, he held solo exhibitions such as The Ritual of Menopause (Complex Cultural Space Emu, Seoul), Seunggasa in the Midday (Space Illi, Seoul) in 2019, Swoosh, Tsu-pu! (ARKO Art Center, Seoul) in 2021. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad. In 2015, she served as the general director of the Yangpyeong public art project The Fainting Project Namyang Gwangha, and she curated a number of exhibitions such as Imaginary Daughter (2004-6). His works are in the collections of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art and Suwon Museum of Art.
She tries to decentralize from the mainstream existence of human beings with abstractions she has developed through daily practice and training. She wants to create a place of synesthesia that transcends the boundary between humans and non-humans through a leaping experience of a certain moment, riding over smells, sounds, and vibrations. In the end, you will witness, you will exist together, and so you will come and go.
Education
1985 M.F.A in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1980 B.F.A in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions (since 2005)
2022 12m down, a spectacle of species, Koreana Art & Culture Complex, Seoul, Korea
2021 Badger A's invitation, Buchun Art Bunker MMH hall, Buchun, Korea
2021 Swoosh, Tsu-pu!, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019 Seunggasa in the midday, Exhibition of Three Days of Heaven, Space Illi, Seoul, Korea
2018 The Gap of Meditation ？ Practice, The 12th Solo Exhibition, International Media Festival, Space O, Seoul, Korea
2013 Why did you come to my house, Yeonhee.dong community center, Seoul, Korea
2012 A Ritual for Menopause, Multipurpose Art Hall EMU, Seoul, Korea
2010 Four Columns, Twelve Window, Stiftelsen 3.14 gallery, Bergen, Norway
2006 Vinyl Room, Gwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Grass and Fur, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions (since 2015)
2022 Museum Access Through the Eco-corridor, GMoMa, Ansan, Korea
2022 Natural People, Mok In Museum Mok Seok Won, Seoul, Korea
2022 Your Present, Pace gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Running Back and Forth, Dasion Experiment Space, Seoul, Korea
2018 Gyeonggi Archive_Now, GMoMA, Gyeonggi, Korea
2018 Taewha River International Art Festa, Taewha River Park, Ulsan, Korea
2017 One Dust of Space, Oil Tank Culture Park Tank 1, Seoul, Korea
2017 Under curing exhibition, Meeindo, Seongbuk Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2016 Discovered by my wife, Old road New road, Jangheung Public art Project, JangHeung·Seoul, Korea
2016 Picketing - Envision Peace, Civil Administration Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 REAL DMZ PROJECT(Mago Halmi’s DMZ Panpipe), Art Sonje Seoul·Dongsong-dong·Cholwon, Korea
2015 Dancing Mama, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Public Art Projects (since 2008)
2015 Silsin Project Nam-Yang-Gwang-Ha, Normadic Gyeonggi Art Festa 2015, Gyeongggi, Seoul, Korea (Supported by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation)
2015 Welcome, Hamchang Maeul art project, Hamchang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea
2011 Hello, What's your name?, Ansan Industrial Complex Public Art Project, AIDA factory murals, Ansan, Korea
2009 Fly to the sky - Ansan Culture & Arts Center outdoor sculpture project, ‘Square Play’, Exhibition Hall·Fountain Square, Ansan, Korea
2008 Plenty of crazy fun at Bulgwangcheon naturally because of water overflow, ‘Seoul City Gallery Public Art Project’, Bulgwangcheon around, Seoul, Korea
Directing (since 2006)
2015 Silsin Project Nam-Yang-Gwang-Ha, Normadic Gyeonggi Art Festa 2015, Gyeongggi, Korea
2011 Liquid Moon II, Seoul-Dusseldorf Exchange Exhibition, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon PS333, Seoul, Korea
2010 Liquid Moon I, Dusseldorf-Seoul Exchange Exhibition, Plan.D Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2007 Baggage Limit II, Dusseldorf·Seoul Exchange Exhibition, Plan.D Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006 Baggage Limit, Dusseldorf·Seoul Exchange Exhibition, Goyang Oulim Museum, Goyang, Korea
2006 History of Political？Imaginary daughter III, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Publication
2013 Round-trip run to Geumseong (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture), Selected as a Support for Mid-sized Artists' Collection, Seoul: Whale Belly
