Leeje

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Biography 

Leeje explores the possibilities of expanding the medium of painting to capture the affective dynamics of contemporary life. Through vivid and tangible imagery, she renders the interplay between everyday experiences and dreamlike imagination within an uncertain world.

 
For her, ‘painting’ is an event that senses the ambiguity of existence and a field of resonance that connects with external reality. ‘The practice of painting’ is a means of momentarily retreating from an expanding and fragmenting world, seeking to engage with various subjects and their temporal and spatial dimensions.

River, lithograph and mixed color on cotton, installation on columns, 246 × 1,866 cm, 2023.

River(Detail), lithograph and mixed color on cotton, installation on columns, 246 × 1,866 cm, 2023.

We Gather to Draw, two-channel video, color, 20 min. 38 sec, 2024

Future Memory: Story of the Pottery, 2 channel video, 18min 7sec, 2024.

The World Goes On: In the Forest I–V, lithograph and mixed color on cotton, 130 × 130 cm (each), 2024.

Exhibition view of The World Goes On Series, (Changdong Residency Exhibition Hall, 2025)

The World Goes On: Murmuring Nights, oil on canvas, 130x130cm, 2024. / The World Goes On: Faces, oil on canvas, 130x130cm, 2024.

The World Goes On: Limbo, oil on canvas, 130x130cm, 2024.

Exhibition view of Hyehwa Station Exit 3, 3 PM (Metro Museum, 2024)

Exhibition view of Paintings, Etc. (Sansumunhwa, 2021)

Education

2004 MFA Fine Art, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

2002 BFA Fine Art, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Expectations of Night, MMCA Residency Changdong, Korea

2023 Still Some Light, A-LOUNGE, Seoul, Korea

2021 Painting Et Cetera, Space Sansumunwha, Seoul, Korea

2017 Halfway Round The Wrist, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2015 Heat Wave, Butten Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2014 Warmth, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2010 Here and Now, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2009 Flower Delivery, Gallery King, Seoul , Korea

2006 The Scenery Begins, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea 

2005 Our Dazzling Moment, Joheung Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2024 I Want To Love Us, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

SMBiennale13 STATION-IMAGE COMMUNITY, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, Korea

Limbo, LDK, Seoul, Korea

2023 Choi Min Colletion : Ways of Seeing, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2022 Walkie-talkie-shaking, Artspace Boan. Seoul, Korea

2020 With Nature : still life and landsacape, Buk Seoul Museum of Art

From Dusk Till Dawn, by Jina Park & Leeje, NOOK gallery, Seoul, Korea

2019 Stranger than Paradise, by Joo Hwang & Leeje, Artspace Boan, Seoul, Korea

The Gray of Jihye, Artcenter White Block, Paju, Korea

2018 Night Mountaineering, Artspace Hue, Paju, Korea

2016 Made in Seoul, Centre d'art Meymac, Meymac, France

Twin Peaks, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea

2014 Spectators, Doosan gallery, Seoul, Korea

Anyang Public Art Project4, Anyang Pavilion, Anyang, Korea

2012 Do window Vol.4, Hundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2011 Painters, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2010 Intuition, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2009 Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2007 Traces of City, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2005 Portfolio2005, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2004 Talking to the Wall, Arko Art Center of the Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea

2003 People Who Waking On The Water, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2001 Time Difference, That, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

Other Projects

2024 Bupyo 01, Leeje ... What Happend and What Could Happen, BOAN BOOKS

2020 Strangers Than Paradise, mediabus

Residencies

2024 MMCA Residency Changdong

2025 Seoul Art Space Geumchen

Grants&Awards

2019  Chong Kun Dang art award, Chong Kun Dang, Korea Mecenat Association, Seoul, Korea

2014  New Artist Support Program, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul, Koreaﾠ

2010  OCI MUSEUM 'OCI YOUNG CREATIVES', Seoul, Korea

Collections

Seoul Museum of Art, MMCA Artbank, Hanwha resort, OCI Museum