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Lee Seung Hyun

About: Lee Seunghyun (b. 1974) is an artist who investigates the very process by which images are generated. His work stems from the perspective that "drawings grow autonomously through the artist." The artist is both creator and mediator simultaneously.
Lee's drawings unfold as delicate lines overlap and proliferate. Fine lines create amorphous forms, yet the artist does not define their identity but allows them to transform themselves. The surface forms an organic structure, with lines creating rhythms like breathing.
The artist focuses on the moment of image generation—the fleeting instant before naming occurs. He surrenders to intuition, waiting for forms to emerge. His lines translate the multilayered images of subjects or express sensations through automatic writing techniques. Language and sensation collide with visual images, creating surrealistic variations.
Surfaces are in constant generation, choosing process over form and flow over meaning. His practice of opening the subtle gaps between image and object and sublimating them into new expressions asks what an image is.
Lee graduated from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Fine Arts, and completed his MFA at the same institution. Since 2004, he has held 10 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions, garnering attention for his distinctive drawing practice. He was selected as Artist of the Year at the 30th JoongAng Fine Arts Prize and received the Excellence Award at the 8th Songeun Art Award. He has participated in residency programs at Seoul Art Space Nanji, National Studio Goyang, and Incheon Art Platform. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Art Bank and other major institutions.

Education

2007
MFA, Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea
2004
BFA, Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea

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Solo Exhibition

2024-11-01 ~ 2024-11-21
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Close to Unfold ,Pageroom8, Seoul, Korea
2024-11-01 ~ 2024-11-21
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Unfold to Face, Space Cadalogs, Seoul, Korea
2022-04-01 ~ 2022-04-24
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Nameless Moment_Srrr , Pageroom8, Seoul, Korea
2019-06-13 ~ 2019-07-14
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Beyond, Space So, Seoul, Korea
2014-07-02 ~ 2014-07-13
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Bansang Variation, Gallery chosun, Seoul, Korea
2010-07-22 ~ 2010-08-29
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, crypto-MUSEUM, Gallery zandari, Seoul, Korea
2009-05-13 ~ 2009-06-02
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Masterpiece virus, Window gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2008-06-01 ~ 2008-06-30
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, The unidentified zoological gardens, Take out drawing, Seoul, Korea
2007-04-13 ~ 2007-04-29
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Cryptozoology, Gallery King, Seoul, Korea
2004-08-05 ~ 2004-08-14
Seunghyun Lee Solo Show, Formative reproduction, Eve Gallery, Seoul, Korea

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Group Exhibition

2025
[MMM] Mutual, Mute, Muse, Pageroom8, Seoul, South Korea
2025
Transmission, Artspace Bin, Jeju, South Korea
2025
The Coner of Darkness, Space Sophora, Seoul, South Korea
2021
Movement_Qualia, Placemak2, Seoul, South Korea
2021
Undefined manual drawing viewpoint (Yangpyeong art museum, Gyeonggi, South Korea
2020
Moving of the left hand (Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea
2015
Play with drawing, Ilwoo space, Seoul, South Korea
2015
Your trip, Dacheongho art museum, Cheongju, South Korea
2015
SOMA DRAWING_Mindful Mindless, Soma museum, Seoul, South Korea
2014
Line- drawing, wumin art center, Cheongju, South Korea
2014
New Monsters, Aram Art Museum, Goyang, South Korea
2013
Between the Lines, All Visual Arts, London, UK
2012
Useless things, Spacemom museum of Art, cheongju, South Korea
2012
NeoForum 2012- Line in Line, Seongbuk Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2011
Immersion-Finding flow, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, South Korea