Jinyoung Lee works between photography and painting. Plants, flowers, the sky and clouds are her recurring subjects, but in the finished work they appear faint and indistinct, worked through several processes until the image holds light rather than detail. She has made photographs on transparent ambrotype glass plate negatives and built them up in layers of acrylic, transparent photographic paper and hanji, so that a flat image becomes a shallow, layered space.
In recent works she combines painting and photography on translucent silk organza and nylon mesh, sometimes printed at large scale and hung so that the layers separate in the room. She describes the result as an organic landscape, and her starting point as the belief that nothing in the world is entirely new: what she finds was always there, unseen. She studied Media Arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and composition at Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul, and has held residencies in Singapore, Mongolia and Korea.
Works
Eight works and installation views, 2018 to 2025: works on organza, prints on hanji and a layered light box.
Selected records
- Education
- Diplom, Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Germany (2006); BFA, Composition, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul (1998)
- Selected exhibitions
- Colors of the Wind, Yeonhui Jungeum, Seoul (2025); Eloquence of the Visual, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo, and Gallery Woong, Seoul (2022); Trace of a Trace, Gallery Woong, Seoul (2020); Material and Imagination, Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi (2020); Empty Fullness, Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul (2020); Unhwamong, Gallery Aso, Daegu (2019); Different yet Similar, Similar yet Different, Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi (2019); 5th Neo-Moroism, Tsinghua University Visual Art Center, Beijing (2018); CRE8TIVE REPORT, OCI Museum, Seoul (2015)
- Residencies
- Temenggong Artists-in-Residence, Singapore (2017); Nomadic Arts Residency, Mongolia (2015); OCI Museum Art Studio, Incheon (2014 to 2015); Cheongju Art Studio (2010 to 2011)
- Support
- Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, visual arts (2012, 2015, 2017)
- Links
- www.jinyounglee.org · Instagram @jinyoung0405
- Enquiries
- For enquiries about the artist and their work, please contact KVAA: woori@kvaauk.org
Current exhibition
(mean)while
A group exhibition of four Korean artists, presented by KVAA and curated by Woori Ko. Fourteen works are shown in the exhibition at St Marylebone Art Space, London. Exhibition page