Sooji Lee

  
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Biography

Sooji Lee is more interested in howthings are made rather than what is made. She focuses on designing the processes, systems, tools, and apparatuses required to create something, and uses these to generate the final outcome. Her work does not follow a linear flow, where a task starts and ends in a sequential manner. Instead, it proceeds in a way where a methodology that begins within a specific context is continuously added to, modified, and expanded upon. Her visual expressions primarily depict the clustering and density created by the aggregation of minimal units of matter. This approach naturally emerges from her attitude of valuing process and time.

Typeface Bodoni Writer, wood, dimensions variable, 2016

Paper maker, wood, dimensions variable, 2018

nm, e ee, paper, ink, thread, 59x82(2ea), 2021

composition 01, paper, ink, thread, 81x183, 2022

nm, e ee, paper, thread, 81x81, 2022

Spindle for 100 strings of thread, wood, thread, dimensions variable, 2022

Tool for hexahedron, wood, thread dimensions variable, 2023

Tool for cylinder, wood, metal, thread, dimensions variable, 2023

Exhibition view of Glitch-philic, (Soolim Cube, 2024)

Exhibition view of Glitch-philic, (Soolim Cube, 2024)

Education

2011, Industrial Design BA, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

2016, Information Design MA, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Glitch-philic, Soorim Cube, Seoul, Korea

2023 4 Tools, Soorim Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2023 Goodbye to the art, Limestone Books, Maastricht, Netherlands

2023 Form forming, Formation, Inchon Art Platform, Inchon, Korea

2022 Liminal Phase, Oci Museum, Seoul, Korea

2017 When Attitudes Become Typeface, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2024 The art Plaza, Artspace Hyeong, Seoul, Korea

2023 Typojanchi 2023 Open Quotation Marks, Close Quotation Marks, Culture Station 284, Seoul, Korea

2023 Things supporting the family, Bando foundation Ivy Gallery, Hwasung, Korea

2023 Your platform, your park / Re-wild garden : Forest, Incheon art platform, Incheon, Korea

2021 Hamel residency 2021, Post territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea

2021 Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju Craft Biennale Exhibition Hall, Cheongju, Korea

2020 The Best Dutch Book Designs 2019, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2019 Open Craft, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2019 Open Studio van Eyck, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, Netherlands

2018 The Way We Face Leather, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2018 Design day #13, Maastricht, Netherlands

2018 The Materialists Present Paper, Ventura Future, Milan, Italy

2018 The Materialists Present Paper, YKSI Expo, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2018 The Materialists Present Paper, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017 The Anti Efficients, Veem, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2017 When Attitudes Become Typeface, Gallery Kazerne, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2017 The 63rd Annual Type Directors Club, Type Directors’ Club 63, Traveling Exhibitions

2016 In Need of, Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

 

 

 

Other Projects

2023 Goodbye to the art, Limestone Books, Netherlands

2019 in process of_ making Bodoni typeface, Jan van Eyck, Netherlands

2019 Vicky, Karo, Sooji, Jan van Eyck, Jan van Eyck, Netherlands

 

 

 

Residencies

2024 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea

2023 Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea

2022 Inchon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Incheon Art Platform, Inchon, Korea

2018 Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, Netherlands

 

 

Grants&Awards

2024 Soorim Art Lab, Soorim Cultural Foundation

2023 Soorim Art Lab, Soorim Cultural Foundation

2023 Art Grant, Art Council Korea

2023 Art Grant, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation

2021 OCI young creatives, OCI Museum, Seoul

2021 Honorable Mention, Cheongju International Craft Competition 2021

2021 Arte Laguna Prize 15, Artists in the spotlight, Italy

2020 The Best Dutch Book Designs 2019, Nethelands

2017 Typographic Excellence 63rd Type Directors Club Awards, New York, United States

2016 Gijs Bakker Award Nominee, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

 

Collections

2023, Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

2024, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea