(1979- )
LEE Jihyun (b.1979)
Born in Seoul, Korea
Currently works and lives in New Haven, CT, USA
EDUCATIONS
2018 M.F.A. Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
2003 M.F.A. Painting, Sungshin Women's University Graduate School, Seoul, South Korea
2001 B.F.A. Painting, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, South Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Red Scene, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2013 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008 Reflective Surface, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Mash Up, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea
Jihyun Lee, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 Going out, doART Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Jihyun Lee, Window Gallery_Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
2004 Confusion of Daily Space, Art space HUE, Seoul, South Korea
2003 The 1st Solo Show, Gallery ARTINUS, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF): FINAL CUT, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Everything Is Different Now, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN, USA
Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2018 Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statements, 371 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
The Greatest Show on Earth, Slideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017 Art. Letter. Home: Artist Manuscript, Main Gallery at CAA, Hangzhou, China
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!, Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 The Need for My Care, Waterfall Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 Artists with Arario 2011_Part 2, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Paranoid Scene, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Artists with Arario, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Document Culture: Tradition and Present, MoA, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Double Fantasy-Korean Contemporary Art, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Young Korean Artist 1 – Space on Surface, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Another Worlds, ARARIO Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
The Way of Viewing Objects, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 2005 Vision & Perspective, Busan Museum of Modern Arts, Busan, South Korea
My Private Gallery, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Seoul Exhibition of Young Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea The 3rd_ Preview, Alternative Space_Team Preview, Seoul, South Korea
The Space of ‘SUM’, Gallery Sun, Seoul, South Korea
2004 Scent of Woon Jung, Sungshin Women's Univ. Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Project 139: The Garden of Forking Paths, Il-min Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Nanwoo, Nanwon, Jongro Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Collected Painting, Alternative Space_Loop, Seoul, South Korea
The 9th Contemporary Expressions of Korean Young Artist, Gwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Selected Name Card, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, South Korea
Nanwon Painting, Jongro Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2002 Happy Flying Piggie Metro, City Metro_Line 5, Seoul, South Korea Open a Refrigerator, Ehwa Woman's Univ., Seoul, South Korea The 5th Seoul Fringe Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Nanwon Painting, Gana Forum Space, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Lee Jihyun & Lim Youngjoo Duo Show, Gallery HelloArt, Seoul, South Korea The 4th Indie Festival, Club Super Fly, Seoul, South Korea
The Water, Seoul Museum of Modern Arts, Seoul, South Korea Nanwon Painting, Jeonwon Gallery, Yang Pyung, South Korea A China Robot Mask, Dong-duk Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2000 The 2nd Working in The Gallery, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, South Korea A Seven Person's Turmoil, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Art Factory l'Amour Aveugle, Sempio Factory, Seoul, South Korea
Virus-the 3rd Indie Festival, Seoul, South Korea
The 1st Working in the Gallery, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
RESIDENCY
2012 DOOSAN Artist Residency, New York, NY, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jihyun Lee, the occasion of the exhibition “Lee, Ji-hyun : Reflective Surface”, at ARARIO Gallery Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, May 15 – June 12, 2008 ISBN 978-89-92262-43-9 93650
Jihyun Lee, the occasion of the exhibition “Jihyun Lee: Threshold”, at DOOSAN Gallery in Seoul, March 7 – April 4, 2013 and New York, NY, Oct. 11-Nov. 3 2012 ISBN 978-89-92262-86-6 96650
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Interview: “The beautiful moment, dividing time horizontally and vertically” by IlJoo Jung, Chief editor, (January 2017 Vol.124), PUBLIC ART magazine, South Korea
Artist Review: “A story beyond the threshold” by E Jung Ban, art critic, (April 2013 Vol.339), Monthly Art Magazine, South Korea
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Korea Arario Museum, Korea
Byuck San Engineering, Korea Gallery SUN Contemporary, Korea