Jooyeon Lee is a moving image artist based in Seoul. Based on extensive research and interviews encompassing themes such as urban alienation, labor precarity, technological progress, industrial toxicology, and body politics, Lee directs non-fiction moving images that are both analytical yet poetic. Experiences of travel and migration, body gestures, children’s play, and auditory experiments serve as central metaphors that permeate their entire body of work.
Lee held her solo exhibition A Dog’s Path is Faster (Gallery 175, 2023), and has since participated in several group exhibitions, including ACC NEXT: Emerging Asian Artists (National Asian Culture Center, 2025), Infiltrators (SAPY, 2025), and The Poor (Museumhead, 2025). Her work has also been featured through various platforms and institutions, such as SeMA Coral, Sorigrim, LUX, the Korean Cultural Centre UK, and the Aesthetica Art Prize. Additionally, her films have been screened at numerous festivals, including the Seoul Independent Film Festival, ExiS, NeMAF, Open City Documentary Festival, and the Twinkle Documentary Festival.
Education
2022 MFA Contemporary Art Practice - Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 BFA Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR
2017 Exchange Students Programme in MA Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
Solo Exhibition
2023 A Dog’s Path Is Faster, Gallery175, Seoul, KR
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2026 ACC NEXT: Emerging Asian Artists, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2025 Infiltrators, SAPY, Seoul, KR
2025 MIDNIGHT JUGGLING SCREENING, Suchi, Seoul, KR
2025 The Poor, Museumhead, Seoul, KR
2024 SeMA Coral Research Project Heavy Weather, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2024 Parallel Works, Sorigrim, Seoul, KR
2024 KIFV Curated Screening for Independent Films, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, KR
2024 Flanerie, InTheCloset, Vilnius, LT
2023 LUX Book Fair: PRINT PRINT PRINT, LUX, London, UK
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Gallery, York, UK
2023 Hands and Whispers, YPC Space, Seoul, KR
2022 Indiespace X Indieforum Screening, Indiespace, Seoul, KR
2022 Crevices Between the Gazes, Onsu Gonggan, Seoul, KR
2021 Indieground Library Archive
2021 Korean Cultural Center UK Online Screening A Viewing Room, London, UK
2020 Web Exhibition Girls In Quarantine
Film Festivals
2024 Twinkle Documentary Festival, Seoul, KR
2023 SET Film Festival, London, UK
2023 Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (ExiS), EX-NOW Competition, Seoul, KR
2021 Open City Documentary Festival, Combined Programme, London, UK
2021 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMAF), Korean New Cinema, Asian Alternative Cinema, Seoul, KR
2020 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Short Film Competition, Seoul, KR
