Eunkyung Lee explores the materiality and temporality of the painted surface through her ongoing practice with egg tempera, while continually experimenting with the structure of painting. She approaches painting with a flexible perspective, examining how materials compose the work and how colors accumulate and are revealed. Her process involves collaboration with the conditions of the medium, the state of pigments, and the tools she uses. By embracing the inefficiency and slowness inherent in egg tempera, her work stands in contrast to the fast-paced, lightweight nature of contemporary visual culture. Furthermore, by recognizing the geological temporality embedded in pigments, Lee connects to a spatiotemporal dimension that exceeds human time, prompting a reconsideration of the temporal depth that painting can hold.
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 ARTSPACE BOAN, PIPE Gallery, ThisWeekendRoom, and Seoul National University Museum of Art.
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
2025 EARTH'S TREASURE, ARTSPACE BOAN, Seoul, KR
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
Residency
2025 SeMA Nanji Residency, 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
