Seahyun Lee

South Korea’s traditional illustration and art history is immovable, but cultural and artistic experimentation will always be relentless. Sea Hyun Lee proves with his art that he knows how true the above statement is. He manages to combine the two forces of the past and the present to create “Between Red”. He is known for his series “Between Red” (2006 to present). These oil paintings are inspired by his time in the Korean military when he monitored the Demilitarized Zone, an area that serves as a physical buffer between North and South Korea. Lee left Korea in 2003 to study at Chelsea College of Arts, where he earned his master’s degree. From memory, he creates detailed landscape paintings of the iconic region, rendered in shades of crimson that simultaneously reference the infrared goggles the artist wore while on night watch, and are meant to highlight the complicated and painful legacy of his homeland. Lee’s paintings are not overtly political, but they purposefully combine elements of the North and South Korean terrains, merging the two halves of the divided Korean peninsula in a gesture that seems both nostalgic and utopian.

1967 born in Korean.

EDUCATION

1989 BFA Department of Western Painting, Hongik University, Seoul
2001 MFA Department of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul
2006 MFA Department of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London Lives and Works in Seoul

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Between Red, KUNSTHALL 3.14, Bergen, Norway
Red Sansu, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea

2018

Red Sansu, The Moments, Sinsegae Gallery Centrum City, Busan, Korea

2015

Red- Silly Dream, Mimesis Art Museum, Paju, Korea 2014 Between Red,
VOUS ETES ICI Gallery, Amsterdam

2012

Plastic Garden, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2011

Between Red, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York 2009
Between Red, Zonca & Zonca Gallery, Milan
Between Red, Harewood House, Leeds, UK
Between Red, ASPEX Contemporary Art Gallery, Portsmouth, UK

2008

Between Red, Union Gallery, London
Between Red, One and J Gallery, Seoul

2007

Between Red, MIKI WICK KIM Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland 2001 Daily, Contemporary Museum of Hongik University, Seoul

1999

THE, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Yangju, Korea

1998

The Navel of Sea, 21st Century Gallery, Seoul

1997

The Garden of Narcissus, Deokweon Gallery, Seoul

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

(Forthcoming) Berlin Meets Seoul, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, KUNSTLEBEN BERLIN Art Guide UG)
(Forthcoming) FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2018

Gyeonggi Millennium Docufesta, Gyeonggi Archive-Now,Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Anshan, Korea
Gyeonju International Residency Art Festa 2018. Through-Harmony, Hwangnyongsa Historic Museum, Gyeonju, Korea
Pohang Steel Art Festival, Pohang, Korea
Wall of Vision , Art Delight Gallery, Seoul, Korea
TR3S ESPEJOS DE COREA, Museo Nacional de las Culturay del Mundo, Mexico
The Third Print, HOMO ARCHIVIST, Dohing Art, Seuol, Korea
Jeju 4,3 is Now Our History,National Museum of Korean, Seoul,Korea
Korean Culter Hong Kong Grand Opening Exhibition, Bloming at the Junction,
Korean Culter Hong Kong , Hong Kong

2017

Unccd Cop 13 “Save The Eath” Green Corps Exhibition, Planting for Hope, Land for Life, Ordos International Convention and Exhibition Center, Ordos Inner Mongolia, China
Neo - naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
Six Perspective on Landscape, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea
KOREA TOMORROW2017, Narrative Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum,Seoul,Korea

2016

Please Return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Museum, Norway
(collaboration curated by CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Cologne / Seoul)

2015

EAST BRIDGE 2016 - Plastic Garden , Force Gallery, Beijing 798, China
“Have a Good day, Mr, Kim”, Michael Horbach Foundation in collaboration with Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
“Seoul ‘Vite Vite’ Tripostal Museum, Lille, Curated by Jean-Max Colard, France

2012

Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prelude, Space Cottonseed, Singapore
Future Pass, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan

2011

We are who you are, Gallery Jijihyang, Paju, South Korea
Future Pass - from Asia to the World, Collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy

2010

Enormous Eyes, Forbidden Fruit in Mumbai, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Plastic Garden, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
A Different Similarity, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2009

A Different Similarity - Towards the Sea, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
City net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Landslide, I-Myu Projects, London, UK
Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
My Name is Red, FURINI Arts Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy

2007

Late at Tate Britain, Fold07 performance, Tate Britain, London, UK
Sense of Moment, Cais Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The Catlin Art Prize 2007, My Life in Art Gallery, London, UK
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2006

Susak Expo, Susak, Croatia
Still Dynamics, Jerwood Space, London, Uk

2003

Difference of Time, Noam Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2001

Humidity, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Origin, Sejong Centre for the Performing Arts, Seoul, South Korea

1999

Korea-Australia Exchange Exhibition, Dansoung Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1997

FROG, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
WSIN WIND NOW ’97, Museum of Hunabaci, Japan

1994

Korea - Japan Modern Art Exchange, Arts Hall, Seoul, South Korea
Self Portrait - A Net of Time, Arts Hall, Seoul, South Korea

1993

Young Views, Mikun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Self Search of Correspondent, Beakah Museum, Daegu, South Korea

1992

I Don’t Talk, Batanggol Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
KEY, Indeco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
New Direction 1989, Yoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The 15 INDEPENDANTS, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Man Matter from the Existence, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Glass Table, Gallery Doll, Seoul, South Korea

1989

SYNDRAME, Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
The 11th Joong-ang Art Exhibition, Hoam Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The 7th National Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea

1986