- Hoin Lee captures scenes of reality surrounding him ? such as nature, city and objects on canvas using distinctive colors and composition. Feelings of anxiety and stability coexist in his images which seem both unreal and real.
Hoin Lee, b.1980
Education
2008
M.F.A. Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR
2006
B.F.A. Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2018
On the Surface, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, US
2015
Flash, Cake Gallery, Seoul, KR
2012
Surrounded, 16bungee, Seoul, KR
2009
To a Place Where There Is Nobody, Gallery SUN contemporary, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibitions
2016
ARTSPECTRUM 2016, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2014
Hwanghak-Dong Project, Cake Gallery, Seoul, KR
Today’s Salon, COMMON CENTER, Seoul, KR
2012
Landscape, HITE COLLECTION, Seoul, KR
2011
Biennale Giovani Monza, The Serrone, Monza, Italy
Balance for Coexistence, Aram Arts Center, Goyang, KR
2010
Young Art Project 2010- Fragmented Paysage, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, KR
A Bridge Too Far, Space Hamilton, Seoul, KR
Between, ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul, KR
Seo-gyo Sixty 2010, KT&G sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul, KR
2008
Hwaum Project, Op.59, alternative space LOOP, Seoul, KR
Privacy, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, KR, Singapore, SG, Amstelveen, NL
2007
BTAP- works in progress, BTAP- Beijing, Beijing, CN
Scape, Mong-In Art Center, Seoul, KR
Service Station, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, US
2006
Vacance: Hard-boiled Romance, Gallery 175, Seoul, KR
2005
Vision 21, Sungshin Women's University Gallery, Seoul, KR
Awards
2016
The 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Visual Art, DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation, Seoul, KR
2010
Harlem Studio Fellowship, New York, US
Jury's Statement
DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards has established itself as a competitive sponsor of the next generation of artists and their creative leaps. The award system focuses on the art practices and annual exhibitions of artists in their thirties who have active careers in both Korea and abroad, and strives to explore innovative and experimental approaches in discovering up-and-coming artists. In keeping up with such commitments, the jury of the 2016 DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Fine Arts Category (Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho) went through a thorough and in-depth discussion and has selected Heecheon Kim(1989), Gwangsoo Park(1984) and Hoin Lee(1980) as the finalists of the 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards this year out of the 9 candidates. There were difficulties in selecting the finalists due to the high level of competency and expectations for the 9 artists recommended by the jury. At last, the jury chose the three artists based on their potential for growth, current art practice, and capability to construct a concrete body of oeuvre.
The penetrative video trilogy presented by Heecheon Kim, only in his late 20s, in the last year successfully won over the jury despite his short exhibition experience compared to other candidates. Drawing analogy between life in his generation to segmented life like an mp3 file, Kim says that when he wants to escape from such life, he backs up the real world in the screen in order to disappear. An Architecture-major, Kim proposes a 'parallel reality' by constructing the life of Seoulites, including himself, backed up in the screen, and by building up another city for them.
Known for black marker drawings and animation, the unique traits of Gwangsoo Park(1984)'s work lies in the "originality of expression and the diversity of its variations". Making animations, murals and objects based on drawing, Park is praised for constructing a "style emancipated from rules, which is not constricted to geometric frames worn out from excessive consumption, and also free from particular trends or tendencies".
Having emerged in the art world in spotlight in 2006, Hoin Lee's solo exhibition at Cake Gallery in 2015 was raved for "promising certain changes, and well calculated brushstrokes of matte paint layers which invite the anticipations of a new world." Also, Lee's exhibition at Art Spectrum in 2016 won praises for "successfully portraying constructive artifacts in a convincing matter, despite the fact that - given the characteristics of his work which thinly piles up layers of dry and matte paint - it's very difficult to portray something beyond the human figure and natural landscape."
The jury of DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards sends applause to the recent remarkable activities and accomplishments of Heecheon Kim, Gwangsoo Park and Hoin Lee, and looks forward to even bigger growth and leaps.
Jury Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho