Yujin Lee



Yujin Lee (b.1986) is a visual artist working across drawing, performance, video, and collaboration. Interested in relational art, automatic drawing, Korean shaman paintings, and the Buddhist concept of yuanqi (interdependent co-arising), Lee’s collaborative endeavors include a performance video with ballerina Emi Hariyama, 108 Bows (2013), an essay film video with visual artist Nicole Won Hee Maloof, Same/Difference (2015), virtual collaboration with visual artist Aracha Cholitgul, @im_there_r_u_here (2020~ongoing), and interdisciplinary project with performance artist Jo Ahra, BeMuse (2021~ongoing). In the beginning of 2019, Lee moved into her farmhouse-turned-international-artist-residence, Next Door to the Museum Jeju. She hopes to share this alternative live/work environment with other creative minds to explore process-oriented, relational art practice that merges the boundary of art and life.



EDUCATION

2015  MFA in Visual Arts, Columbia University, School of the Arts

2009  BFA in Painting, Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art, and Planning


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021  BeMuse with Jo Ahra (맺고 풀고, 협업작가: 조아라), Gallery DOS, Seoul (KR)

2019  UNDER THE RAINBOW (무지개 아래), VER Gallery, Bangkok (TH)

2018  NAME.LESS (무명), Sun Degree 26, Chungju (KR)

2015  TAL-AH (脫我), Gallery DOS, Seoul (KR)

2013  AIMLESS, Urban Serendipity Banjul, Seoul (KR)

CHRONOS AND KAIROS, Morgen Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2012  IN A VACUUM (진공상태), Gallery DOS, Seoul (KR)

2011  BENUMBED, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin (DE)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2021  GLOBAL WEEK: TIME-SPACE RESONANCE (글로벌 위크: 시공공감), Culturetank,

Seoul (KR)

2020  UDO 9TH SCENERY PROJECT (우도9경 프로젝트), Udo Island (KR)

DELIVERY BOX, 26 Sun Degree, Chungju (KR)

ATTRACTIONS, 10 locations in Bangkok, curated by LIV_ID Collective

2019  EVOLUTIONARY TRADITION: ASIAN CONTEMPORARY PRINT ART, Sichuan Fine Arts

Institute, Chongqing (CN)

2017  ENDLESS NIGHT (끝없는 밤), Daecheongho Museum of Art, Chungju (KR)

LESSON ZERO, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon (KR)

DRAW/BOSTON, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Boston (US)

2016  OUTSIDE TEXT, Chiang Mai University Art Center, Chiang Mai (TH)

LINES OF FLIGHT, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York (US)

2015  NEW PRINTS 2015/AUTUMN, International Print Center New York, New York (US)

REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE (performance), Jewish Museum, New York (US)

SOMA DRAWING: MINDFUL MINDLESS, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)

L'INCONNU FESTIVAL (screening), Reflet Médicis, Paris (FR)

2014  THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN, Athens' School of Fine Arts

Gallery, Athens (GR)

NOW & AFTER, International Video Art Festival, State Museum of GULAG, Moscow (RU)

2013  FLUCTUATIONS, Recession Art, Brooklyn, NY (US)

WATER TOWER ART FEST, Sofia (BG)

2012  DRAWING SHOW I: NO ILLUSION, Kreuzberg Pavillon Kassel, Kassel (DE)

NORDART, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf (DE)

EVERYTHING IS INDEX, NOTHING IS HISTORY, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (US)

REDEFINING POWER (performance), Salon Populaire, Berlin (DE)

2011  WORLD PEACE FESTIVAL EXHIBITION, Freies Museum, Berlin (DE)

FUME EMITS, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin (DE)


CURATORIAL WORK

2021  International Artist Residency (participating artists: KAY2, Jo Ahra),

Next Door to the Museum, Jeju (KR)

2020  International Artist Residency (participating artists: Florian Bong Kil

Grosse, Aracha Cholitgul), Next Door to the Museum, Jeju (KR)

2019  International Artist Residency (participating artists: Hyein Lee, Osheen Siva),

Next Door to the Museum, Jeju (KR)

2019  ENTANGLED BODIES (얽히고 설키고), Gallery Entrée, Seoul (KR)

2018  When I grow up, I wanna be (장래희망), FAS, Seoul (KR)

2014  DRAWING SHOW II: CONNECTING DOTS, aquabitArt Gallery, Berlin (DE)

2012  DRAWING SHOW I: NO ILLUSION, Kreuzberg Pavillon Kassel, Kassel (DE)


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021  Correspondence Archive (with Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai)

2018  ZHIWAN CHEUNG, Seeing Color Podcast Episode 5: The Myth of Sisyphus

(w/ Yujin Lee)

2017  The Shanghai Literary Review Issue One

2016  Collaborative Cognition: Yujin Lee and Nicole Maloof in conversation with ArtFile

Magazine, ArtFile Magazine Emerging Artist Grant 2nd Runner Up Interview 

2014  SARA KLKAMEL, Yujin Lee: Identity in Flux, Arts Culture Beat

MADISON FORD, SoA Student Curates Cross-disciplinary Exhibit at Neiman Gallery, Columbia Spectator

BERLINERPOOL, Yujin Lee: Project Korea, berlinerpool Arts Network & Mobile Archive

2013  BEL BORST, Girl On Fire: When Creativity Burns, Berlin Art Parasites

2012  RECESSION ART, Artist Interview: Yujin Lee of Everything is Index, Nothing is History

ALLIE HAEUSSIEIN, Fan Mail: Lee Yujin, Daily Serving

2011  ANNA RUSS, About Smoke. An Interview with Yujin Lee, Berlin Art Link



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