Lee Jinjoon

Jinjoon Lee
Jinjoon Lee
Born South Korea
Nationality South Korea South Korea
Education University of Oxford
Royal College of Art, London
Seoul National University, Seoul
Known for Video art
Installation art
Media art
Notable work http://www.jinjoonlee.com/html/project/view.php?category=&seq=12&main=2&sub=8
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Jinjoon Lee (이진준 born in Masan, South Korea)[1] is a London-based Korean artist, designer and creative director working in a wide range of media, including sculpture, drawings, photo, video, sound and installation, to explore the perception of utopian ideologies. After graduating from Seoul National University in Seoul, he went on to study Moving Image and Design Interaction at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford. Since giving his debut solo exhibition at ARKO Art Centre of Arts Council Korea in 2008, Lee has exhibited at numerous venues worldwide including Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, India International Centre, The Prague National Gallery in the Czech Republic, The National Museum of Bulgaria, Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music in London. He is a full-fledged member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS). Lee’s studio is perhaps best known for the public media sculpture They,[2] which was permanently installed at Digital Media City, Seoul in 2010, and works on the architectural design and development of innovative projects for various requests around the world.

Work

He is a visual artist who emphasises the crossing of the past and the present, and of the real and the imagined. Jinjoon has been developing a body of work, examining sites with a traumatic past; recently his project was to research 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 viewpoints on the same vantage point. His video collage deliberately exposes the joins, in order to reveal the hidden scars within the landscape, often manifest within architecture. Jinjoon conceived the multi-layering of images, and wishes to explore the ambiguities of collective memory and experience through public and private perception, and the need to memorialise. 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 and effective distance. 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 a creative director, he successfully finished Seoul Gasan Digital Complex Media Façade Project in 2012. Currently works and resides in Oxford, UK.

Commission and special projects

  • 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[3]
  • 2011 The room for memory, Documentary for missing soldiers in Korean War, Ministry for National Defense, Seoul, Korea
  • 2011 To stage, design and 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

Awards and grants

Selected bibliography

  • 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

Publication

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

Main press coverage

  • 2013 Light From Shadow, English Daily Press ‘The Hindu’, India[4]
  • 2011 Can you feel the warm light like real nature?, Korea main Daily Press ‘Chosun Ilbo’, Korea[5]
  • 2011 Documentary film ‘A light alchemist Jinjoon Lee’, National Broadcasting company ‘MBC’, Korea
  • 2011 ‘Light garden’, Jaipur Daily News 23rd Sep, Jaipur, India
  • 2009 Sight and Interview 6th – Jinjoon Lee, Monthly Magazine ‘Shindonga’, Vol 597[6]

Public collections

References

  1. ↑ "JinJoon Lee". font.bluecarpet.co.kr.
  2. ↑ http://www.jinjoonlee.com/html/project/view.php?category=&seq=12&main=2&sub=8
  3. ↑ "SPAF2013". SPAF2016.
  4. ↑ Tripathi, Shailaja. "Light from the shadows".
  5. ↑ "느껴지나요? 자연처럼 따뜻한 인공의 빛".
  6. ↑ "6인의 컨템포러리 아티스트 시리즈 여섯 번째 작가 이진준 : 신동아". shindonga.donga.com.
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