Lee Jinjoon

Jinjoon Lee (born 1974 in Masan, South Korea) is a London-based Korean artist working in a wide range of media, including photo, drawings, film, video, sound and installation, to explore the perception of time, space and Khôra as an organic link between the pieces, the viewer and the exhibition space. He is perhaps best known for the public sculpture They, which was permanently installed at Digital Media City ,Seoul in the 2010.

He is a visual artist who emphasizes the crossing of the past and the present, and of the real and the imagined, by creating a visual collage of stills, moving images. Jinjoon has been developing a body of work, examining sites with a traumatic past, recently he travelled to Hiroshima to document the Genbaku Dome, the hiroshima Peace Memorial. He has been creating video collages, combining footage filmed in different locations and at different times, showing multiple viewpoint on the same vantage point. His video collaged deliberately expose the joins, in order to reveal the hidden scars within the landscape, often manifest within architecture. Jinjoon thought the multi-layering of images, wishes to explore the ambiguities of collective memory and experience through public and private perception, and the need to memorialize. The resulting ambiguity engenders a new type of deconstruction: of the notion of the sublime, which is questioned through a continuous journey between apparent proximity (transparency of the image) and effective distance (decoding its narrative connections). Art works of Drawing, Photo and Media Artworks are displayed at 10 different locations such as The Farjam Collection in DIFC in Dubai, a College of Engineering of Seoul National University, and Gallery Parkyoung at Paju, Korea. The MediaPublic Art Sculpture named “THEY” was installed at Digital Media City located at Sangam-Dong, Seoul in 2010 and became a permanent display since then. Proceeding with a study of Media Architecture jointly with many architects and lighting designers working from Germany, France, Italy, Japan, India, China, Korea and UK. As an art director, he successfully finished Seoul Gasan Digital Complex Media Façade Project in 2012. Currently works and resides in London, UK.

• 2013 The third eye, the India Cultural Centre and the Embassy of the Republic of South Korea
• 2013 Artificial Garden, Media Façade, Hyundai Group. Seoul, Korea
• 2012 ECO, Music theater performance, video installation, Art council of Korea, Seoul, Korea
• 2011 The room for memory, Documentary for missing soldiers in Korea War, Ministry for National Defense, Seoul, Korea
• 2011 To stage, design & consulting for Media agency project, Korea Telecom, Seoul, Korea
• 2011 They, Public Media Sculpture, LG Group, Seoul, Korea
• 2008 Your stage 2008, Parkyoung Inc., Paju, Korea
• 2007 Interdisciplinary Theater Performance -Half Water, Half Fish, Space Loop, Seoul, Korea

• http://spaf.or.kr/2011english/program/prgm_view.php?art_no=55

• 2014 13rd Sculptor Moon Shin Prize for Young Artist, Korea
• 2011 Granted Young Promising Artist by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
• 2008 13rd Korea Young Artist, Korea National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
• 2008 Grand prize (2million US$) In monument to the Digital Media City Seoul, LG, Seoul City, Korea
• 2008 Granted NART Yong Artist by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea

• 2011 Lee, Eun Joo. “Two Eyes watching the world”, Seoul culture Today, Seoul
• 2009 Lee, sun young. “Artificial Garden”, Monthly Magazine ‘Art’, October, Seoul
• 2011 Ha, ge hoon. “Jinjoon Lee” , October, Seoul Art Guide, Seoul
• 2008 Lee, Chuyong. “Living is Dying”, Korea Young Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Feb, Seoul
• 2008 Kim, Min Kyung . “SIGHT & INTERVIEW- Jinjoon Lee”, Shin Dong-A Magazine, June 2008, Seoul
• 2007 Lee, Jung A. “Studio in Museum & Museum in Studio”, Art council of Korea,
• 2007 Kyun, Hyuk Ju. “ Jinjoon Lee: Alienation with amusement” , Public Art, September, Seoul
• 2005 Jung, Yong Do. “Jinjoon Lee: Behavior Speculation”, Space, August, Seoul: p. 11-21

• 2012 Artificial Garden, UN Press, ISBN 9788996814603, Seoul, Korea

• 2013 Light From Shadow, English Daily Press ‘The Hindu’, India
• 2011 Can you feel the warm light like real nature? , Korea main Daily Press ‘Chosun Ilbo’ , Korea
• 2011 Documentary film ‘A light alchemist Jinjoon Lee’ , National Broadcasting company ‘MBC’, Korea
• 2011 ‘light garden’, Jaipur Daily News 23nd Sep, Jaipur, India
• 2009 Sight and Interview 6th – Jinjoon Lee, Monthly Magazine ‘Shindonga’, Vol 597

• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/light-from-the-shadows/article5245086.ece
• http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/19/2011091902274.html
• http://shindonga.donga.com/docs/magazine/shin/2009/05/29/200905290500027/200905290500027_1.html

• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gacheon, Korea
• The Farjam Collection In DIFC(Dubai International Financial Center), Dubai
• Seoul National University, College of Engineering, Seoul, Korea
• Hyundai Group. Seoul, Korea
• Marriott Hotel, Seoul, Korea
• Ministry for National Defense, Seoul, Korea
• Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• Pakyoung Inc., Paju.Korea
• Sang-Am Digital Media City (DMC), Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, Korea
• Space*C Coreana Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea