JaeWook Lee is an artist, writer, amateur scientist, semi-philosopher, and sometime curator. Lee stages an exhibition as a mode of artistic expression, articulating his thoughts through the exhibition process. His works speculate on the difference between the human mind and other-than-human consciousness.
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Education
M.F.A. Fine Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
M.F.A. Art Practice, the School of Visual Arts, New York
B.F.A. Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Grants/Fellowships
2016 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Support Program, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2014 4th SINAP: Sindoh Artist Support Program (Jury: Beatrix Ruf, Dongyeon Koh)
2012 GuSH Grant: Research fund
2012 GuSH Grant: Conference fund
2011 Arts Council Korea, International Exhibition Grant
2007 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Exhibition Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Object Theory, O'newwall E'juheon, Seoul
2015 JaeWook Lee solo show, Sindoh Art Space (with curated curator Raimundas Malasauskas) , Seoul
2011 Big Seoul (1971), PYO gallery south, Seoul
2009 Beautiful, Project space Kunst-Doc, Seoul
2009 Golden Bomb at KIAF 09 (commissioned solo installation), Korea International Art Fair, COAX, Seoul
2007 At the Highest Point in Asia, Art space HUE, Seoul
2005 The 5th Art Wall Project, Coreana Museum, Seoul
Two-Person Exhibitions
2014 When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals (a collaboration with Simone Couto), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2012 Building/Unbuilding (JaeWook Lee and Charlie Hahn), Space 53, Seoul
2009 Re*New, Gallery Art Link (JaeWook Lee and Bak Byung Il), Seoul
2008 A Look at the City – Disquieting Truths (JaeWook Lee and Hongsik Kim), SEO Gallery, Seoul
2005 SEO 2nd Wall-Painting Project (JaeWook Lee and Jin Joon Lee), SEO Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2016
Station Moves, Zaha Museum, Seoul
2015
Neue Empiriker-We Shape Clay into A Pot, Frappant e.V., Hamburg
Neue Empiriker-Your Memories Picture History II, ALTERNATIVE ART SPACE IPO, Seoul
NURTUREart Benefit, Boiler Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn
Singapore Open Media Art Festival, Gillman Barracks indoor & outdoor space, Singapore
(Six unknowable symbols), Miller gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Time, Watered by Memories of the Other (curated by Yongdo Jeong), Gallery Kunst-Doc, Seoul
Neue Empiriker-Your Memories Picture History (curated by Yongdo Jeong), ZAHA Museum, Seoul
2014
Videorover: Season 9 /// JaeWook Lee: LunarmagmaoceanLove, NURTUREart, Brooklyn
The Matricide (An Artificial Grammar for Nature), a collaboration with Ali Van (curated by Steven Henry Madoff), CP Projects Space, New York
Beyond Limits (in partnership with Mediations Biennale), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego
Community Board (curated by Jovana Stokic), Glasshouse, Brooklyn
Hotel de Inmigrates 04-Insight, Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay
2013
Salonukah, Recession Art, Brooklyn
Juan Media Festival (JuMF), Incheon Soccer Stadium, Incheon, South Korea
Dance of the Photons, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, Brooklyn
Ecstasy and Apocalypse(curated by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve), Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Current Practice(curated by Hesse McGraw), The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn
5to.Festival Internacional De Videoarte De Camaguey 2013, Camaguey, Cuba
Animamus Art Salon: A Living Gallery, Culture Fix, New York
Now What, Microscope Gallery(curated by Elle Burchill), Brooklyn
2012
American Daydream, Recession Art, New York
Neue Empiriker-The Memory Politic, ZAHA Museum, Seoul
Prolonged Exposure (curated by Kaegan Sparks), Recession Art, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn
Manifesta 9 preview opening performance, Z33 Art Center, Hasselt, Belgium
Manifesta 9 parallel event, Hotel de Inmigrantes (curated by Tomasz Wendland), Hasselt, Belgium
Momenta Art Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn
2011
Innerscaping the city (curated by Denise Carvalho), Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Korean Contemporary: New Reasons, Elliott City MD
Neue Empiriker, ZAHA Museum, Seoul
Wassaic Project Exhibition, Wassaic NY
New Thinking New Possibilities (organized by PYO Gallery), Hyundai Motor Company Daechi-dong, Seoul
2010
SanctionedArray(screening), White Box, NewYork
Vitamin, Albro Siza Hall, Anyang, South Korea
The moment, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul
Insa Galleries Art Festival, Kimyoungseob Photo Gallery, Seoul
Oh! Masterpieces, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, An-San, South Korea
2009
Seoul International Photo Festival, Garden 5, Seoul
CHRISTMAS, Urban Art Gallery, Seoul
Travel and Tourism (curated by Yongdo Jeong), Gallery Kunst-Doc, Seoul
Land Balance, SEO Gallery, Seoul
Heropia, SEO Gallery, Seoul
2008
Design Made – Saving Design, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul
MOA Vision 1, MOA Seoul National University, Seoul
Museum Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Kang-Ba Ram: New Breeze of Gangnam, PYO Gallery South, Seoul
2007
Phocheon Aisa Biennale, Phocheon, South Korea
Borderless Horizon, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Diagnosis of Gangnam, Space Mass, Seoul
2006
The Window for the Future-Art and Science, National Science Center, Daejeon, South Korea
Design Made – online, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul
Moving Beyond the Boundary of Painting, SPACE*C Coreana Museum, Seoul
2005
SEO Art Project in DECOYA, DECOYA, Seoul
Curatorial Works
2014 Videorover: Season 9 /// JaeWook Lee: LunarmagmaoceanLove, NURTUREart, Brooklyn
2014 When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals (in collaboration with Simone Couto), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2013 Dance of the Photons, Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics, Brooklyn
2012 Building/Unbuilding, Space 53, Seoul (in collaboration with Charlie Hahn)
Publications
2016
TK-21, Thing Thinks, February
TK-21, The Curatorial Innovation as Art, January
2015
TK-21, Accompanying Our Own Past, December
TK-21, The Hypnotic Show and Memoirs of a Hypnotist, November
TK-21, Efficiency of the Economical at the XII Baltic Triennial, October
TK-21, Nothing But A Symphony, February
2014
When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Blurb
INCIDENT Magazine, Performance Review, Becoming a Volcano: The Lithuania and Cyprus Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, oO and Maria Hassabi’s Intermission, April
Artist in Residency
2011 Aug-Sep, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guide, Woodstock NY, USA
2011 May-June, Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY, USA
2007 Jan-Feb, Vermont Studio Center(Freeman Fellowship, Honorable Mention),Johnson VT, USA
2007 April, Art Space Hue, Seoul, South Korea
Public Collections
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, South Korea
Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Teaching Experience
2015-present: Faculty at the School of Visual Arts, New York
Courses include: Foundation I & II
2012-2015: Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Courses include: Installation, Art and the Brain, Advanced Drawing, 2D Drawing, Concept Studio III, Concept Studio I
Lectures and Events
2016 Lecture at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville
2015 Innovation in Exhibition Making: The Blurred Boundary Between Exhibition and The Rest of The World, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 Bushwick Open Studio, The English Kills Project roundtable discussion, Brooklyn
2015 Lecture at Texas State University, San Marcos
2014 Socially Engaged Art Student Summit, Open Engagement, Queens Museum, Queens
2013 A* Lab, Artist Talk, Building/Unbuilding, Art Space 53, Seoul
2012 OSHER Talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2012 Lecture series, CAPA Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School, Pittsburgh
2011 Visiting crit, MICA-K-Arts summer program– prof. Charlie Hahn, Seoul
2010 Artist Talk, Gallery Bresson, Seoul
2009 Artist Talk, Seoul International Photography Festival 2009, Garden 5, Seoul
2007 Artist Talk, Temporary Technology 3, Art Space HUE, Seoul
Jury
2015 Open Engagement, Pittsburgh
Bibliography
2015
Encounter with a visualized philosophy at a secluded alley of Seongbuk-dong of Seoul, Monthly Art Magazine MISULSEGAE, December
8 Artists to Watch from the 2015 Bushwick Open Studios, http://hyperallergic.com, June 8th
2014
Art-Agenda, Jaewook Lee, Jeamin Cha, and Onejoon Che: 2014 Sindoh Artist Support Program (SINAP) participating artists, November
Videofocus, Stigmart 10 - 6th edition, JaeWook Lee, August
2013
Juan Media Festival(JuMF) catalogue, Glocal. Glocation/Location/Alteration (by Denise Carvalho), November
2012
Recessionartshow.com, American Daydream Artist JaeWook Lee, December
Recessionartshow.com, Prolonged Exposure Artist JaeWook Lee, Novermber
Hotel de Inmgrantes-Cosmopolitan Stranger catalogue, Des-Identify yourself Please (by Denise Carvalho), June
2011
Kyung Hyang Art Wave Magazine, History, Memory and the Poetic, February
PYO Gallery South catalogue, Big Seoul 1971, JaeWook Lee solo show, February
2010
Dt.co.kr, Hyundai Motors opens their car showroom as a gallery space with JaeWook Lee’s art work, October 15
The Photo Magazine, JaeWook Lee (Lee, JW), January
Hankooki Magazine, Inviting the spectacle of a city – Artist JW Lee, October
Magazine Doo, Artist JaeWook Lee, June
Unionpress.co.kr, Young Aritst <2> JaeWook Lee, an artist who creates cities, April
Good Health, A artwork open our mind, February
Wolganmisool Magazine, A brush stroke for whom?, May
63 Sky Art catalogue, The Moment, March
2009
Architecture and Culture Magazine, Exhibition Land-Balance, June
Monthly Art Magazine, Land-Balance, May
PhotoNet Magazine, Brand New Artist JaeWook Lee, March
Neighbor Magazine, Fantastic Plastic World, February
PhotoNet Magazine, Heropia, February
2008
Public Art Magazine, Exhibition Review, Two points of view of the way of looking at the city life, June
Artvent Magazine, 2008 SEO Gallery special exhibition: JaeWook Lee and Hong-sik Kim’s show, May
Club Richie Magazine, JaeWook Lee and Hong-sik Kim’s show, May
Noblige Magazine, JaeWook Lee and Hong-sik Kim’s show, May
SEO gallery catalogue, A look at the City – Disquieting Truths (by Kim Mi-Jin), May
2007
Art Space Hue catalogue, The Production of Organic Awareness (Unconscious Symbols and Images); the project of life-At The Highest Place in Asia – On JaeWook Lee’s Work (by Yong-do Jeong), May