BELOVED COMPANION 12
Yunjeong Lee
( toafw@hotmail.com Tel: 201 661 1463 )
Education
1995 School of Visual Arts, NY USA MFA
1993 Ewha Womans University, Seoul Korea MFA
1991 Ewha Womans University, Seoul Korea BA
Award & Scholarship
1990 Jung Ang Art Grand Competition, Ho-am Art Museum, Seoul Korea
1990 Korea Art Grand Competition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon Korea
1994 Merit Scholarship, School of Visual Arts, NY USA
2022 Certificate of Mayer, Artist of the Year Award, NJ USA
Solo Exhibition
1996 Yunjeong Lee Solo Show, Chongro Gallery, Seoul Korea
1994 Yunjeong Lee Solo Show, School of Visual Arts Gallery, NY USA
Group Exhibition
2022
601Artspace, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space, NY USA
SDSS “Against Anti-Asian Sentiments”, Murray Hill Station, NY USA
SDSS Mott Haven Art Block Party, NY USA
Gallery Arche, BC12 Project, Seoul Korea
YESAMO USA, Rotunda Gallery, NJ USA
Image Pattern and Texture Group Exhibition, Rotunda Gallery, NJ USA
2021 As if we could lift the earth, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul Korea
Memorial Exhibition in honor of the late Michael Yun, Rotunda Gallery, NJ USA
2020 WYWM, Rotunda Gallery, NJ USA
Dedication curated by Paris Koh, Online Exhibition
2019 Praise and Glory, Family Touch, NJ USA
Still, Judy Chang Law Firm, NJ USA
Benefit Art Exhibition by Nokmee, KCC, NJ USA
The Other Side, Korea kulturhaus österreich, Vienna Austria
Beyond the Imagination, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, NY USA
4+U, Special Show for 2 years Anniversary Invited by Millennium Bank, NY USA
Vernal Fever, Curated by Ahl Foundation’s Hyeseong Margaret tae,
Bank of Hope, NY
2018 Nokmee, Able Fine Art, NY USA
Community of Unity, K&P Gallery, NY USA
Blessing Group Exhibition, K&P Gallery, NY USA
Oneness, K&P Gallery, NY USA
2017 Good bye 2017, K&P Gallery, NY USA
2001 Nokmee, New Century Gallery, NY USA
2000 Nokmee, Agora Gallery, NY USA
1998 Golden Roots, Wing Luke Asian Museum, WA USA
K-A-A-W, Washington Convention Center, WA USA
1995 Beauty and the Public: America’s most wanted painting,
Curated by Komar and Melamid, Visual Arts Gallery, NY USA
Selections from MFA Special Projects, Curated by Gregory Amenoff,
Visual Arts Gallery, NY USA
Korea Art Tashkent Exhibition, Tashkent National Art Center,
Tashkent Uzbekistan
1994 6 ways, Group Show, Curated by Sam Cady, Visual Arts Gallery, NY USA
1991 Independent Show, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon Korea
All, Group Show, Batangol Museum of Art, Seoul Korea
East-West Culture, Group Show, Gwanhun Gallery, Seoul Korea
Duo Exhibition, Soojin Kim & Yunjeong Lee, Gwanhun Gallery, Seoul Korea
1990 New Young Artists Show, Cheong Nyun Gallery, Seoul Korea
Jung Ang Art Grand Competition, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul Korea
Korea Art Grand Competition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon Korea
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2022 January Rotunda Gallery
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Yunjeong Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, where she attended Ewha Womans University and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts and her first Master of Fine Arts. She received her second Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she was also the recipient of a merit scholarship. Lee held solo exhibitions in the United States and Korea, and participated in group exhibition in Vienna (Austria), New York, Seattle, and Seoul. She received awards from Jung Ang Art Grand Competition and Korea Art Grand Competition. Lee currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and works for the BC12 Project with Katy Park who is president of Gallery Arche since January 2022.
Artist's Note (2019-2021)
Yunjeong Lee works to inspire us to transform the burden we face in our lives through spiritual enlightenment and in our journey of Kairos. For the artist, spiritual light occupies an important role in her life, which has the power to guide, anoint and transform. Through light and sight, the mirror as a physical medium can easily transform the reflected images. At the same time, the mirror has special powers for spiritual path, which can transform the journey from Chronos to Kairos.
Yunjeong Lee uses mirrors as spiritual and material objects to evoke the importance of inevitable encounters through the power of hidden spaces, where vibrations can occur and an awakening takes place between mirrors and viewers. The spiritual transformation is formed at a junction where the sky touches the ground, in space and time of Kairos, and from there she expresses the fourth dimensional experiences through installation.
For transformation, there had to be a state of cleanliness through the act of washing, which is achieved through repentance, free from idols, fiction, and lies that hold the ego. And transformation is acquired through spiritual discipline and through the numerous challenges we face and conquer. The artist highlights our collective revival and re-birth through transformation by using mirrors as the spiritual path to illuminate their infinite and unpredictable power, where miracles exist in the space and time of Kairos.