Sooji Lee

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Biography
Sooji Lee is more interested in how things 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.

Exhibition view of SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition (Songeun, 2025)

How to make a regular hexahedron – Day 1 & Day 2 (Poetry ver.), Single-channel video, color, sound, 1hr 42min, 2025

How to make a regular hexahedron – Day 1 & Day 2 (Poetry ver.), Single-channel video, color, sound, 1hr 42min, 2025

Exhibition view of No Content Available, (WWNN, 2025)

Cube 03, Thread, Lesin, Metal, 80x80x80cm, 2025

A tool for empty regular hexahedron, wood, thread, variable size, 2023


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

composition 01, handsewing on paper, ink, thread, 2021

Paper maker, wood, plastic, variable size, 2018

Typeface Bodoni Writer, wood, variable size, 2016


Education
2011 Industrial Design BA, Hongik University, Seoul
2016 Information Design MA, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Solo Exhibitions
2025 No Content Available, WWNN, Seoul (upcoming)
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
2025 The Breath of Fresh: HWADU, Suwon Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon
2025 Symbiotic Planet, Art Space Geumcheon, Seou
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

Residency
2025 Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul
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
2025 Art Grant, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
2025 Art Grant, Seoul Cultural Foundation
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
2024, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2023, Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2022, OCI Museum, Korea

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