Heejoon Lee

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BIOGRAPHY
Heejoon Lee pays attention to the aesthetics of design pervading in various locations within the scenery surrounding our lives. He cautiously examines the proportions, balance, and colors of his surrounding environments and seeks subjects for his paintings. Through the process of expanding and editing his collection of sceneries, Lee creates abstract images composed of vertical and horizontal color-planes. He symbolizes the outer scenery and transfers it onto the canvas. In the process of reproducing the images with painting methods, he creates multiple layers and extracts new textures through his brushstrokes, to visualize the layers of time and space he has discovered while observing cityscapes.

Heejoon Lee was born in Seoul, 1988. He graduated from Hongik University with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and Sculpture in 2012, and received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art in 2014. He has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Incheon Art Platform(2021, Incheon), Space So(2021, Seoul). He has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as Art Sonje Center(2021, Seoul), Daechung Museum(2021, Cheongju), Seoul Museum of Art(2019, Seoul), and more. He also administered a new exhibition space, ‘No Toilet’ (2014-2015) and presented multiple exhibitions. He has been a participant in Incheon Art Platform residency, and his work is included in the public collection of Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea) and Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea). He is currently living and working at Seoul Art Space in Seoul.

EDUCATION
2012 – 2014 Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
2006 - 2012 Bachelor of Painting, Sculpture, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

SOLO EXHIBHION
2021 Image Architect, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2021 Raw, Polished, Coated., Space So, Seoul, Korea
2020 The Tourist, Seoul, Korea
2019 Aa, Gallery Su, Seoul, Korea
2017 Emerald Skin, Yeemock Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Speakers, Weekend, Seoul, Korea
2016 Interior nor Exterior: Prototype, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2021 Intentional Coincidence, Jaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
2021 BGA Showroom, BGA Maru, Seoul, Korea
2021 Dwindles to a Point and Vanishes, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2021 Balance, Art Space O, Seoul, Korea
2021 Abstract-ing, Shinsegae Gallery, Busan, Korea
2021 All Your Day, BC Card X Seojung Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2021 Public Art New Hero, Daechung Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2021 Support Sarubia 2021, Project Space Sarubia,Seoul, Korea
2021 A New Way of Seeing, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea
2020 Space Sense, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul Nationl University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
2020 Gradation: From Red to Golden, Munito X Superellipse Gallery, Seou, Korea
2020 Exhibition/Publication, WESS, Seoul, Korea
2020 Sharpness: temperature of Art, Ilwoo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2020 Art at Home, Flow+er, Seoul, Korea
2020 Light and Crystalline, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Season’s Greetings: Peace, Joy and Love to 2020, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Painting Network, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Holiday Image, Fn Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019 Night Sense: sound, scent and memories, Space So, Seoul, Korea
2019 APMAP, Amorepacific Museum Jeju Osulloc, Seogwipo, Korea
2019 Unstable Objects, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Flàneur, Art Sapce Hue, Paju, Korea
2019 Coners 1: Responses, Correspondences, Keep in Touch, Seoul, Korea
2019 Relieve : Less is more, Soda Museum of Art, hwaseong, Korea
2019 Phantom City, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Dear You Do This? FFFF It, Gangshan Contemporary Art Warehouse, Gangshan, Taiwan
2019 Geometty, Beyond Simplicity, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
2018 Motif, Hakgojea Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 PACK, Seoul Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, Korea
2017 Land Play, Keep in Touch, Seoul, Korea
2016 I DROGUM, The Art Museum of Akurey, Akurey, Iceland
2015 Ajinomoto: The Essence of Umami, No Toilet, Seoul, Korea
2014 MFA at CitizenM, CitizenM Glasgow, UK.
2014 Glasgow school of Art Master of Fine Art degree show, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK.
2014 Tipping the line, Occupy My Time Gallery, London, UK
2014 Dear Green, ZK/U ProjektraumGrundrisse, Berlin, Germany
2013 Word/Play, Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2013 The Independent Artists Fair(TIAF) 2013, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK
2013 Black Cube Collective(BCC) Annual Show 2013, The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh, UK
2013 PRISMISM Transmission's annual members show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2013 HOW MANY SHADES WOULD AN ARTIST PACK FOR HOLIDAYS?,Nicosial, Cyprus.
2011 Graduate Show of Painting Dept. ,Hongik University, Seoul
2011 Graduate Show of Sculpture Dept. ,Hongik University, Seoul

RESIDENCE PROGRAM
2021 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2013 HOW MANY SHADES WOULD AN ARTIST PACK FOR HOLIDAYS?,Neoterismoi
Toumazou, Nicosia, Cyprus.

NOMINATION & AWARD
2021 Awarding Research Fund, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2020 Live Sketch, Monthly Photo, Seoul, Korea
2020 Public collection of Seoul Metropolitan City, Seoul, Korea
2020 Public Collection of Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2020 Awarding Exhibition Fund, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2019 Public collection of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 First prize winning of ‘New Hero’ award, Public Art magazine, Seoul, Korea
2018 Public Collection of Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2018 Awarding Research Fund, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2017 Awarding Exhibition Fund, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2017 Nominated for ‘Essay & Image’ in Art World magazine, Seoul, Korea
2016 Nominated for ‘New Look’ in Art and Culture magazine, Seoul, Korea