Jung Ho
Lee

Jung Ho Lee is a Korean American artist living and working in Seoul and New York. Lee began his art career as a mixed media painter and soon ventured into photography, sculpture, and installation; expanding his understanding of different genres and learning to use many new materials.  Lee takes notice in scenes where chaos and order coexist. He often refers to construction sites, a pile of trash, and stains left on the floor in his studio. Lee extracts and transfers the countless marks and patterns made on his studio floor and uses them as materials for the series presented in this exhibition. He collages the extracted pieces on the canvas, reconstructing the structure to seek an aesthetic order within the chaotic aggregation of stains.

Lee was born in 1984 in New York.  He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and received his MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2016.  Lee had solo shows at Gallery Mark(Seoul), 69 Eldridge(NY), and Hakgojae Design(Seoul).  Lee was in many group shows namely at Kood Projects (NY), The Factory LIC (NY), Lichtundfire (NY),and Milano World EXPO: Today’s Art of Korea (Milan).  Lee also participated in residencies at Cité internationale des arts (Paris), and Jangsaengpo Art Stay(Ulsan).

Lee currently works and lives in Seoul and New York.