Jaeuk Lee
Jaeuk LEE (KR, 1980°), South Korea is a visual artist based in Seoul.
He works primarily with photography and is interested in modern historical records and contemporary social phenomena. He focuses on the subtle gaps that can be found within them. Jaeuk takes time for research and data collection, organizing the layers of events embedded in the place and making them visible in the present day. On behalf of the fading, nameless witnesses, he reinterprets and documents history through his images, which might otherwise be recorded conventionally.
Exhibition view: The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
BIO
Jaeuk Lee received a Master of Arts from the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany in 2016 under the guidance of Professor Peter Bialobrzeski. He had his third solo exhibition Event Horizon (Gallery Lux, Seoul, 2020), and has contributed to numerous group exhibitions such as An Observation of the Yellow Sea (IAP, Incheon, 2023), The Printed World (Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2022), Bisociation at White Block (Paju, Korea, 2020), and The Square (MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea, 2019). He has received several artist grants, including the Artist Support Grant from the Arts Council Korea 2020, and has continued his practice through residencies like the Goyang Residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea 2018. His works are part of collections at institutions such as the MMCA Government Art Bank, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, and KT&G.
Jaeuk Lee's residency is supported by the Arts Council Korea (ARKO).