RESUME
(Selected CV)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 'Hive', Ye-song Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2019 ‘Phenomenological Aspects’, Willesden Gallery, London, UK
2018 'Emptying, Filling and Colours', Seo-jung Art Centre,Seoul, South Korea
2018 'Colour-field 2018', Art x stay Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2017 ‘Displacement’, Clerkenwell Gallery, London, UK
2015 ‘Separately & Together’, The Central Gallery, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2013 ‘Labyrinths’, Williams Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION
2020 'Fragmented Perspectives', In-young Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2017 ‘The Flows of Qi 2; Dual Anchors’, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, UK
2016 ‘The Flows of Qi 1; Dual Anchors’, Old Fire Station Gallery, Hanley on Thames, UK
GROUP EXHIBITION
2020.11 – 2021.02 ‘Village Theatre DMZ OPEN Exhibition’, Village Theatre DMZ Residency Gallery, Gangwondo Injae , South Korea
2020.06 ‘Art and Life’, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019.10 ‘Gwan’(觀), Sungkyun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2019.06 ‘Pearl; Elegance', Lee-sang Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
2018.08 ‘Colour 2018’, CICA Museum, Gim-po, South Korea
2018.06 ‘Korean New Artists’, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, South Korea
2017.06 – 07 ‘Seven Hour Render’, Interwind, Thames Tower, Reading, UK
2016.09 – 10 ‘Next Wave 2016’, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2016.05 'The Change the World 2016 Competition Exhibition', The Oxford Town Hall gallery, Oxford, UK
2016.05 'Oxfordshire Artweeks Group Open Exhibition 2016', Small & Large Gallery, The Jam Factory, Oxford, UK
2015.11' Reading Art Week 2015', Reading Town Centre, Reading, UK
2014.11 'The Postgraduate Exhibition', The Central Gallery, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2014.02 Cube-independent Exhibition ‘In Between’, Artist cube Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2013.08 ‘Abstractions’, Ruskin 104, Cambridge school of art, Cambridge, UK
2013.07 'Open Exhibition 2013', Art space Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2012.05 Group Project ‘Rus104’, Solo Project ‘Labyrinths’, Ruskin 104, Cambridge school of art, Cambridge, UK
2010.12 The 29th Line Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium
EDUCATION
PhD in Fine art, University of Reading, UK
Research Title: 'Painting in the expanded field from the perspective of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology'
AWARDS
2019 Award for the Excellent Thesis Prize (Research Centre for Literary and Aesthetics, Shandong, China), Supported by Shandong University
2018 Prize of Gamma Young Artist Competition (International Award), Supported by Gamma Young Artist Competition
2016 Runner-Up Prize of 'Change the world 2016' of Poseytude Gallery (Oxford, UK), Supported by Great Art and Museum of Oxford
2013 Prize of Open Exhibition 2013 of Cambridge Artworks (Cambridge, UK), Supported by Cambridge Artworks Gallery
2010 Prize of the 13th World Art Exhibition for Peace (Seoul, South Korea), Supported by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism and Seoul City Council
2009 Prize of the 12th World Art Exhibition for Peace (Seoul, South Korea), Supported by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism and Seoul City Council
RESIDENCY & PROJECT
2020 Village Theatre DMZ Residency, Gangwondo Injae, South Korea
2020 'Remedy Ontact' Project, Puesto Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018 '2018 LAB Astronomy and Art Workshop' Project, Daeduck Research Village/ Sobacksan Astronomical Observatory/Seoul, South Korea
2018 Art x stay Residency, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Contemporary Landscape of Reading Project, Graffiti Mural Painting on the Wall, Willow House, The Salvation Army, Reading, UK
SYMPOSIUM & COLLOQUIUM THESIS PRESENTATION
2019 National Symposium Presentation
Title: The Discourse on the Identity of Korean Contemporary Art with respect to the Concepts of ‘Globalization’ and ‘Deterritorialization’
Venue: Toe-gye Humanities Building, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul,South Korea
2019 International Symposium Presentation
Title: Hundertwasser’s artworks from the perspective of Zhuang-zi’ ecological aesthetics
Venue: Research Centre for Literary and Aesthetics, Shandong University, Shandong, China
*Award for the excellent thesis prize
2019 International Symposium Presentation
Title: A study on Soo-ja Kim’s bottari series (关于金守子 < Bottari, 包袱 >连作的研究)
Venue: The Humanities Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2018 National Symposium Presentation
Title: Soo-ja Kim’s Artworks based on Korean Naturalism and Taoism
Venue: Toegye Humanities Building, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
2018 International Symposium Presentation
Title: U-fan Lee’s art from the perspective of Taoist’s Aesthetics
Venue: Toegye Humanities Building, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Colloquium Presentation
Title: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Painting
Venue: Lecture Theatre, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2016 Colloquium Presentation
Title: Painting in the Expanded Field and Phenomenology
Venue: Lecture Theatre, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2015 International Symposium Presentation
Title: Rethinking about ‘Intra-actions’: Individualities and relationship in contemporary painting.
Venue: Symposium Room, School of Design, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
2015 Colloquium Presentation
Title: Painting in the Expanded Field
Venue: Lecture Theatre, University of Reading, Reading, UK
2014 Colloquium Presentation
Title: The Sublime - a Comparative Study between Western Europe and Far East
Venue: Lecture Theatre, University of Reading, Reading, UK
PUBLICATION
May 2020 Journal Paper
Comparative Study on U-fan Lee and Robert Ryman's Monochrome Paintings
Eastern Art Vol.47, The Korean Society of Eastern Art Studies, KCI
Feb 2020 Journal Paper
The Discourse on the Identity of Korean Contemporary Art with respect to the Concepts of ‘Globalization’ and ‘Deterritorialization’
Eastern Art Vol.46, The Korean Society of Eastern Art Studies, KCI
Nov 2019 Journal Paper
U-fan Lee’s art from the perspective of Laozi; focus on the concepts of ‘Being’ and ‘Not-being’
Eastern Art Vol.45, The Korean Society of Eastern Art Studies, KCI
Feb 2019 Journal Paper
A study on Soo-ja Kim’s bottari series; Focusing on the concepts from ‘Naturalism’ of Korean aesthetics and ‘Tao’ and Nothingness’ of Taoist’s Thought
Eastern Art Vol.42, The Korean Society of Eastern Art Studies, KCI
THE PRESS
2020 Art Hub, Neo-look, Ye-song Art Museum
2019 Art Hub, Lee sang Art
2018 Art Hub