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Support & Nurture / Support for Artists and Researchers at SeMA Nanji Residency/Nanji 人 (in)
이은경 Eunkyung Lee

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Introduction

Eunkyung Lee has continued her work with egg tempera, researching the material state and time within painting surfaces, and experimenting with the structure of painting. It is about showing what painting is made of, how it is layered and revealed, while questioning what painting can do.

She has held solo exhibitions such as Indexing Long Events (WWNN, 2024), Placeholder (Placemak, 2020), and Mysterious Continuum (ThisWeekendRoom, 2017), and has participated in group exhibitions and co-organized them at galleries including Pipe Gallery, Opera Gallery, ThisWeekendRoom, and Seoul National University Museum of Art. She graduated from the Painting Department at Seoul National University, and majored in painting at Slade (UCL) in the UK. She recently completed her doctoral program in Western Painting at Seoul National University.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 INDEXING LONG EVENTS, WWNN, Seoul, KR

2020 PLACEHOLDER, Placemak, Seoul, KR

2017 Mysterious Continuum, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, KR

2016 The Quiet, Gallery MEME, Seoul, KR

2014 The Fragile, Gallery DOS, Seoul, KR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 SENSORY LAYERS, PIPE Gallery, Seoul, KR

2024 Profound Surfaces, Sueno339, Seoul, KR

2023 Hand to Eye, BOL Gallery, Singapore

2021 Glade on the Border, OPERA Gallery, Seoul, KR

2020 Re: Collect, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2019 The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London, UK

2018 Pharmakon, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, KR

Publication

2024 INDEXING LONG EVENTS, Sohwansa, Seoul, KR

Fellowship/Selection/Supports

2023-2022 Fellowship for Fundamental Academic Fields ,Seoul National University, Seoul, KR

2021 Artist Open Call (Finalists), OPERA Gallery, Seoul, KR

2019 Art Creaetion Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR

2016 Art Creaetion Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR

Co-curating

2018 Medium Laboratory (LLAP), ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, KR

2017 Studio LLAP, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, KR

Educations

2024 Doctorial Painting program completed, The College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, KR

2011 MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London, UK

2008 BFA Painting, The College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, KR

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PLUTO 23L1, 2022-2023, Scratched and excavated egg tempera and half-chalk ground on linen over wood panel, 230×182cm

STRATA FOR BEGINNING, 2022-2023, Powder and small pieces scratched from the surface, cylinder, 14×14×15cm

GEOLOGICAL COLOURS, 2023, BFK, pencil, pigment, rabbit skin glue, 54.5×74.8cm

FIVE HILLS SIX COLOURS, 2023, Six colours of kaolin (Sancheong/KR), glass bottle, stainless shelf, magnifying glass, a piece of kaolin, laboratory dish, dimension variable

THREE DAYS AFTER TOMORROW, 2022-2023, Scratched and excavated egg tempera and half-chalk ground on linen over wood panel, 182×230cm

FIVE HILLS SIX COLOURS, 2023, Six colours of kaolin (Sancheong/KR), glass bottle, stainless shelf, magnifying glass, a piece of kaolin, laboratory dish, dimension variable

PLUTO 23L1, 2022-2023, Scratched and excavated egg tempera and half-chalk ground on linen over wood panel, 230×182cm

STRATA FOR BEGINNING, 2022-2023, Powder and small pieces scratched from the surface, cylinder, 14×14×15cm

GEOLOGICAL COLOURS, 2023, BFK, pencil, pigment, rabbit skin glue, 54.5×74.8cm

FIVE HILLS SIX COLOURS, 2023, Six colours of kaolin (Sancheong/KR), glass bottle, stainless shelf, magnifying glass, a piece of kaolin, laboratory dish, dimension variable

THREE DAYS AFTER TOMORROW, 2022-2023, Scratched and excavated egg tempera and half-chalk ground on linen over wood panel, 182×230cm

FIVE HILLS SIX COLOURS, 2023, Six colours of kaolin (Sancheong/KR), glass bottle, stainless shelf, magnifying glass, a piece of kaolin, laboratory dish, dimension variable

a residency program operated by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) that was launched in 2006 after remodeling unused facilities in Nanji Hangang Park. Conceived as a means of supporting capable artists and researchers in Korea, the Residency organizes exhibitions such as the 'NANJI ART SHOW' and 'Art Critic Workshop', and runs other programs designed to enhance exhibitions and research capability. It also operates the International Artist Exchange Program to utilize international residency network and multiply exchanges, and hosts lectures in which art experts from Korea and other countries are invited to participate. By 2009, SeMA Nanji Residency had firmly established itself as a creative studio by providing creative spaces and working conditions to domestic young artists. Starting in 2010, it began to take the form of a program by subdividing its activities into ‘exhibition’, ‘research and academics’, and ‘exchange’, and supporting and operating them systematically. Since 2012, it has been developing into an international residential organization by operating various programs.

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