Min K. Lee

Min K. Lee
minklee.com
Education
School of Visual Arts, M.F.A., Computer Art, New York
Seoul National University, M.F.A., in Painting, Korea
Seoul National University, B. F.A., in Painting, Korea
Experience
Instructor at Dan- Kook University
Instructor at Su Won University
Instructor at Seoul Woman University
Instructor at Seoul National Technology of University
Instructor at National An-Dong University
Instructor at Gae Woon Collerge
Public Collection, Seoul Art center
Public Collection, Kochi International Prints Triennial
Public Collection, Space International Miniature Print Biennial
Solo Exhibition, Floating - Nature 2024 (ACC gallery, NJ)
Solo Exhibition, The Movement and Transformation (Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Artcom NY)
Solo Exhibition, MAIF-SEOUL (Seoul At Center, Seoul)
Solo Exhibition, Duality-Propitation (Gallery Icon, Korea)
Solo Exhibition, An Another Situation (Seo ho Gallery, Seoul)
Solo Exhibition, MFA Thesis Solo Show in Printmaking (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)
Generation VII (A.I.R. Gallery, NY)
BLOOM (Jersey city Hall, NJ)
Election:The Square Foot Show ( Art Gotham , NY)
Seoul Print Club ( Posco Gallery, Seoul)
Computer Art Show (SVA Gallery, NY)
EDITION (Gyeongnam Art Museum. Korea)
Winter 0708 (Art Gate Gallery, NY)
Gyeongnam International Art Festival (Gyeongnam Art Museum)
Dual Scenery (Artcom gallery, NJ )
Crash and Flow-Media Art (SeoDaeMun Prison, Musenm of History, Seoul)
The Second Floor Room of NamDaeMoon (InSaArtSpace, Seoul)
Mapping Korea (Seoul)
PowerPowder (Seocho Art Institute, Seoul)
Seoul Print club
Norway International Print Triennial (Norway)
14 Korean Printmakers (The Print center, Philadepia)
Wood Cut Festival (Slovenia)
Cracow International Prints Triennial (BWA Gallery, Poland)
Kochi International Print Triennial (Japan)
Mondial International Print Biennial (France)
Awards
Kochi International Prints Triennial – Regular Prize
Dong-A Fine Arts Festival – First Prize
Kochi International Prints Triennial –Second Prize
The 10th Korea Grand Arts Exhibition –Second Prize
Korean Contemporary Prints Public Subscription- First Prize
Space International Miniature Print Biennial – Second Prize
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Min K Lee is from Seoul, South Korea and currently lives in NYC. She has an M.F.A. in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York and she has an M.F.A and an B.F.A in Painting, Printmaking in Seoul National University.
She has had seven solo shows and has been part of more than 100 group exhibitions. She is the recipient of several awards, including from the Kochi International’s Prints Triennial in Japan, the 10th Korea Grand Arts Exhibition in Seoul, and the Dong-A Fine Arts Festival, also in Seoul. After many years of working in various media, including printmaking and computer art, Min is now concentrating on painting and digital art. 이민경은 뉴욕 School of Visual Arts 에서 Computer Art MFA 와 서울대학교 서양화 대학과 대학원을 졸업하고 7 번의 개인전과 다수의 전시를 했다. 대한민국 미술 대 전과 동아 미술제, Koch 비엔날레등 다수 국제전에서 수상을 했다. 오랜기간 판화 작업 과 회화, 비디오 설치를 하였고 현재 디지털과 회화 작업에 매진하고 있다.
Artist statement I am exploring the fluid, ultimate, and floating self-consciousness in the essential self of the object in nature and in its environment.
The Floating Nature works are rooted in my series of videos, and installations. “Swaying in the Power,” from a few years ago. In that series, I tried to express the essence of an object and its relationship with the environment that affects it through leaves swaying in the wind. My interest in the interaction between each object and the surrounding environment is ultimately about finding the essence of the object.
I approached it more pictorially in these works. Fundamentally, the characteristics of something that we see - visually appealing objects such as flower petals or tree branches in my work, create different forms, even with the same shape, and show different feelings even with the same color. The objects expressed through the composition of leaves that sway subtly and the shape of tree branches that extend to an unknown location, react to the environment and also make gestures that make their own voices within themselves.
This object's voice, that is, the object's identity, was explored in order to express the gestures it presents on the canvas through differences in shape, line, color, and light. I wanted to consider the object's essence, its existential self through the potentially changing form of the object. I also can see the abstract mass that can be inferred from that form, the movement of the line, and the subtle changes that are similar yet different.
Also, this movement is reminiscent of the stream of unconscious thoughts that are constantly changing and unsettled, as if floating. Through the experience of this mutual relationship, the object changes, and dialectically, it is not the object that I initially thought of, and I am not the person that I initially expected.
나는 자연에서 오는 형태와 선을 관찰 재해석, 그 안에서의 유동적 자의식 탐구를 하고 자 한다. “Floating” 시리즈는 몇 해전 나의 비디오 작업 “Swaying in the Power” 시리즈에서 출발한다. 그 작업에서 나는 바람에 흔들리는 나뭇잎을 통해 사물의 대상의 본질과 그것 에 대한 영향을 미치는 환경과의 관계를 표현하고자 하였다. 대상과 주변 환경 간의 상 호 작용에 대한 나의 관심은 궁극적으로 대상의 본질을 찾는 것입니다. 이번 작업에서 이것을 좀 더 회화적으로 접근하였다. 근본적으로 우리가 보는 것의 특성 - 그의 작품에서의 꽃잎이나 나뭇가지와 같은 시각적으로 매력적인 대상은 같은 모양이 라도 다른 형태를 만들고 같은 색상이라도 다른 감정을 느끼게 해 준다. 미묘하게 흔들 리는 잎의 구성과 어디인지 알 수 없이 뻗은 나뭇가지의 형태 등으로 표현된 대상은 환 경에 반응하고, 또한 스스로 내면에서 자기의 목소리를 내는 몸짓을 한다. 이 사물의 목소리, 즉 사물의 정체성은 캔버스에 표현되는 몸짓을 형태, 선, 색상, 빛의 차이를 통해 표현하기 위해 탐구되었다. 나는 사물의 본질, 잠재적으로 변화하는 사물의 그 대상의 본질, 실존적인 자아 고려하고 싶었다. 또한 이 움직임은 끊임없이 변화하고 정착하지 않는 마치 떠 도는 무의식적 사고의 흐름을 연상하고 있다. 이러한 상호 관계 의 경험으로 대상은 변화하며 변증법적으로 그것은 자신이 처음 생각했던 그 대상이 아 니고 그 자신 또한 처음의 그가 아니다.