Jade Sujin LEE explores a range of invisible signs and sensations, including light, memory, and sound, which appear in particular border areas of the everyday world. Based on the imagination, she reconstructs the fluid concepts that flow between the temporality of the ‘past-present-future,’ expressing them through various creative forms that encompass sculpture, spatial work, installation, performance, narration, and video. LEE has discovered the various ways in which nature and disparate spaces and places are layered with time. She overlaps ‘sci-fi imagination to transcend the present,’ and the ‘primitive vitality that revives (or rehabilitates)’ ― which transform the state of ‘confrontation and conflict’ that has been continuously manifested since the transition to industrial society into a situation of ‘reconciliation and healing’ ― with specific situations, attempting to make the infinite possibilities compatible with them.
Her recent solo exhibitions are Telic (Seoul Young Artist Platform, Seoul, 2023) and Change or Trans-Hiking (Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, 2022) and her work has also been presented in numerous art projects including Not Painting (Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, 2023), National Assembly Secretariat × ACC Media Art Project (National Assembly Building, Seoul, 2023). LEE has participated in international residencies and research projects, such as Basis Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany, 2023) and to continue her art work in a wide range of exhibitions, interdisciplinary collaborations, performances, and public projects. All the structures and relations LEE creates together push forward a forceful collective resistance and contemplation on what it means to be an artist today.
Education
2019 M.F.A. in Cinema, Graduate School of Communication & Art, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2004 B.F.A. in Painting, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Telic, Gray Room in Seoul Young Artist’s Platform, Seoul, Korea
2023 AUX: Head and Tail Story, Soma Art Space, Berlin, Germany
2022 Change or Trans-hiking, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2022 Warming Humming, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2014 Luminizing Sequence, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul, Korea
2012 The Deep Stay, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Flexible Wall, Boan Inn, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 To You I Say, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea
2023 AIR Frankfurt: Tel Aviv & Seoul Exhibition, basis_Frankfurt Projeckraum, Frankfurt, Germany
2023 Not Painting, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2023 Re: Green, The Hyundai Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2023 National Assembly Secretariat X ACC Media Art Project, National Assembly Building, Seoul, Korea
2022 The 22nd SONGEUN Art Award, SONGEUN, Seoul, Korea.
2022 SMAW: Seoul Media Art Week, Coex Artium K-pop Square Media, Seoul, Korea
2022 Your Platform, Your Park: Re-wild Garden, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2022 Back to Square One, Seoul Museum of Art: SeMA Bunker, Seoul, Korea
2022 The 14thDMZ Docs: International Documentary Film Festival, Sunrise Theater, Ansan, Korea
2022 Whirling, Wallowing, Bump, Suwon Museum of Art: Suwon Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, Korea
2022 ACC Cinema fund Media Wall Project, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2021 Our New Normal, YICA, Mine, Japan
2021 Seoul is Museum Public Art Project: Nodeul, Nodeul Island, Seoul, Korea
2021 In its Own Resonance, Space Imsi, Incheon, Korea
2021 Ground X, Seoul Museum of Art: SeMA Storge, Seoul, Korea
2020 Edge of the River, Glendale Public Library Reflect Space, Glendale, USA
2020 Ubiquitousness of Viewpoints, YICA, Mine, Japan
2019 ICE FOLD, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 The 11thDMZ Docs: International Documentary Film Festival, Lotte Cinema, Paju, Korea
2019 Move on Asia, Naves Matadero: International Living Art Center, Madrid, Spain
Selected Performance
2021 Ourler, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019 When My Winds Comes in here, Dongsoong Art Center. Seoul
Residencies
2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea
2023 MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea
2023 Basis AIR Frankfurt: MMCA International Art Residency Exchange Program, Frankfurt, Germany
2022 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2019 SIM: The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik
2018 AIAV: Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2019-17 Gyeonggi Creation Center, An-san, Korea
2015 Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2016-14 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Substation, Singapore
Award
2021 The Grand Prize for Multidisciplinary Artists, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Selected Grant & Supports
2024 International Art Network Support: Artist in Residence, ARKO, Korea
2024 Art Creation Support, ARKO, Korea
2023 International Art Network Support: International Art Project, ARKO, Korea
2023 Online Media Art Project Support, Art Project, ARKO, Korea
2023 Emerging Artists Support, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Korea
2023 Gyeonggi Artist Creation Support, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
2022 Multidisciplinary Art Project Grant, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2021 ACC Cinema Fund for Media Art Project, ACC, Gwang-ju
2021 Online Media Art Project Support, Art Project, ARKO, Korea
2020 Arts & Convergence Project Support, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
2019 International Art Network Support: Artist in Residence program, ARKO, Korea
2019 International Art Network Support, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
Publications
2023 Change or Trans-hiking/ Ourler, Spine Press, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2020 Temporariness, Relation and Art of Structure, Art X Media, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi, Korea
2017 The Ilex Rotunda Village, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, An-san, Korea
2014 Private but Non-Private, presskitpress, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2014 Luminizing Sequence, presskitpress, SeMA: Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Public Archive
MMCA Seoul, Digital Library & Archive, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Gwacheon, Art Library, Gwacheon, Korea
Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
basis_Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
Collection
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
