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Soyo Lee

About: Soyo Lee is an artist who focuses on the cultural history of human and nonhuman interactions. Her works deal with case studies of ecological niches in environments disturbed by anthropogenic activities. Her main creative processes are fieldwork and hands-on material experiments. Born in Seoul in 1976, she graduated from Yonsei University and the Korea National University of Arts and received a doctorate in 2013 from the Department of Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with interdisciplinary art-science research on the conservational of historical natural history specimens. She was resident at MMCA Residency Changdong (2021), the SeMA Nanji Residency Creation Studio (2020), and NTU CCA Residencies (2018~9). Her representative solo exhibitions include Jasan-ur-bo, a Pictureless Natural History (Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, 2022), Heuksan, Dark and Scary (Mihakgwan, 2021), and A Dying Art (Art Space Hue, 2016). She participated in diverse group exhibitions, such as The 3rd Jeju Biennale: Flowing Moon, Embracing Land (Jeju Museum of Art, 2022-23), and The 1st Gangneung International Art Festival (GIAF): Tale of a City (Daechumoo Fine Art, 2022), The Pearl Diver (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2021), and Ecological Sense (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2019). She curated An Illustrated Books of Plants: The Flora and its Poetic Evidences (MMCA, 2016-17).

Education

2013
PhD, Department of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2009
MFA, Department of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
2006
B.A. in Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
1998
B.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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Solo Exhibition

2022
《Jasan-ur-bo: a pictureless natural history》, Seodaemun Museum Of Natural History, Seoul
2021
《Heuksan, dark and scary》, Gallery Mihakgwan, Seoul
2017
《Jasan-ur-bo, a pictureless natural history》, Life And Culture, Seoul
2016
《A Dying Art》, Art Space Hue, Paju
2015
《Ornamental Cactus Design》, Gallery 175, Seoul
2013
Wet Specimen Conservation, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, United States of America
2012
A Dying Art, Kunstinitiatief Retort, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
A Dying Art, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium

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Group Exhibition

2023
《Natural Replica》, Soorim Cultural Foundation, KimHeeSoo Art Center, Seoul
2022
《2022 Jeju Biennale Flowing Moon, Embracing Land》, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju
2022
《Wild Wild Matter》, Space After, Seoul
2022
《Gangneung International Art Festival 강/릉/연/구 江陵連口 Tale of a City》, Gangneung
2022
《Public Design Festival 2022 주제전 길몸삶터: 일상에서 누리는 널리 이로운 디자인》, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2021
《Because We Don't Know Us》, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Jeongok
2021
《Residency Changdong Report 2021: From Matter to Life》, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art Changdong Residency, Seoul
2021
《Camille 6》, Hapjungigu, Seoul
2021
《2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform》, Ministry of Unification Inter-Korean Transit Office Uni maru, Paju
2021
《Traveling Without Moving》, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art Changdong Residency, Seoul
2021
《Sounds of the Blue Marble: Mourning the Anthropocene》, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2021
《Memorial Exhibition for the 7th Anniversary of the Sewol Ferry Disaster: The Pearl Diver》, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
2020
《As After Sunset Fadeth In The West》, Wooran Art Scape 1, Seoul
2020
《Plantae》, Art Space Boan, Seoul
2020
《Earthbound》, Amado Art Space, Seoul
2019
《Used Future》, Soorim Cultural Foundation, KimHeeSoo Art Center, Seoul
2019
《Ecological Sense》, Nam June Paik Art Center , Yongin
2018
《Tastes of Weather》, SeMA Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2018
《From SeMA Collection: The Lost world》, SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2017
《natural-looking design》, Can Foundation, Seoul
2016
《New Romance: Art and the Posthuman》, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2016
《An Illustrated Book of Plants》, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art, Seoul
2015
《Korea-Australia Partnership New Romance: Art and Posthuman》, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art, Seoul