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Heejoon Lee

Heejoon Lee pays attention to the aesthetics of design pervading in various locations within the scenery surrounding our lives. He cautiously examines the proportions, balance, and colors of his surrounding environments and seeks subjects for his paintings. Through the process of expanding and editing his collection of sceneries, Lee creates abstract images composed of vertical and horizontal color-planes. He symbolizes the outer scenery and transfers it onto the canvas. In the process of reproducing the images with painting methods, he creates multiple layers and extracts new textures through his brushstrokes, to visualize the layers of time and space he has discovered while observing cityscapes.

The artist’s viewpoint that focused on architecture and their interiors shifts to the details of cityscapes in his recent works. Heejoon Lee refers to the colors and images of the transforming suburban areas to construct his picture-screen. He examines the aspect of the transformation of the appearance of suburban areas, which are the individual units that constitute a cityscape as well as the most intimate link to the people’s lives. The series presented in this exhibition, A Shape of Taste (2018), are the outcome of the reconstitution of the sceneries from Hongik University district, Yeonnam-dong, Hannam-dong, etc. Lee especially focused on the areas that went through rapid transformation from suburban to cultural center areas. This is Lee’s attempt to capture the aesthetics of the modern city by examining the surface skin of the suburban area that transforms in accordance to the times and purposes. The artist’s contemplation on the aspect of the change in aesthetic choices depending on lifestyles is noticeable.

Heejoon Lee was born in Seoul, 1988. He graduated from Hongik University with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and Sculpture in 2012, and received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art in 2014. He has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Yeemock Gallery (Seoul), Kigoja (Seoul), and Weekend (Seoul). He has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as Akureyri Art Museum (Akureyri, Iceland), Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery (Glasgow, U.K.), Occupy My Time Gallery (London), and more. He also administered a new exhibition space, ‘No Toilet’ (2014-2015) and presented multiple exhibitions. He has been a participant in Neoterismoi Toumazou (Nicosia, Cyprus) residency, and his work is included in the public collection of Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea). He is currently living and working in Seoul.

Biography

1988 Born in Seoul

2012 B.F.A. Painting and B.F.A. Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul
2014 M.F.A. Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.
Lives and Works in Seoul

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Emerald Skin, Yeemock Gallery, Seoul
The Speakers, Weekend, Seoul
2016 Interior nor Exterior: Prototype, Kigoja, Seoul

Residencies
2013 Neoterismoi Toumazou, Nicosia, Cyprus

Public Collections
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2018 Motif, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Union Art Fair: Let’s Make Together, S-Factory, Seoul 
2017 Pack, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul
      Land Play, Keep In Touch, Seoul
      Insa Salon, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul
2016 In Draft (í drögum) / Prehistoric Loom Ⅳ, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
2015 Ajinomoto: The Seasoning Powder, No Toilet, Seoul
Prehistoric Loom, Glasgow Open House Project, Glasgow, U.K.
Prehistoric Loom, Civic Art Gallery Yada, Nagoya, Japan
Prehistoric Loom, No Toilet, Seoul
2014 Tipping the line, Occupy My Time Gallery, London
Dear Green, ZK/U Project Space, Berlin
2013 Word/Play, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
Black Cube Collective Annual Show, The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh, U.K.
PRISMISM – Annual Member’s Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
How Many Shades Would An Artist Pack For Holidays?, Neoterismoi Toumazou, Nicosia, Cyprus
  JAMIE, The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow, U.K.
2011 Last Summer, Hwarangdae Station, Seoul
Artworks
A Shape of Taste No. 104

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 102

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 101

2018

Oil on canvas

182 x 182 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 30

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 28

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 27

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 24

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 23

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 22

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 20

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 18

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 14

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

A Shape of Taste No. 12

2018

Oil on linen

53 x 53 cm

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