Suzy Lee

She was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1974.[4]

She graduated in 1996 with a BFA in Painting from the Seoul National University, and earned an MA in Book Arts in 2001 from Camberwell College of Arts.[5]

She has lived in Singapore and London, and currently lives and works in Seoul.[6]

Suzy Lee's books often explore the tension and pleasure between reality and fantasy.[7] She uses a variety of methods for her illustration. Her first book, an illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland, combines monocromatic drawing, photography, and sampled art to create the surreal scenes of the text.[8] When Lee works along on books, they usually do not include text.[7] Suzy Lee's Border trilogy (Mirror (2003), Wave (2008), and Shadow (2010)) work turn to the space of the page -- having her characters move across the open spread from one page to the next, using the gutters for visual and emotional effect -- to explore solitude and the possibility of imagination.[8][7] Wave, where a little girl moves from being on the sand into the sea playing with the waves, offers both a study in using the location of color from compartmentalized and tight to scattered and mixed across the page, as well as a study in what Ana Margarida and Rui Ramos call ecoliteracy, how people come to read the natural world.[9] Wave has also been used in therapies using virtual reality storytelling for children with Intellectual Developmental Disability (IDD).[10] For Shadow, she again relied on placement of the page to center the story around. To make the shadows that the little girl plays with, she used spray-paint for a soft but sharp image, like a shadow.[11] She also held an exhibit where she provided a shadow puppet stage for audiences to enact and reenact aspects of the book.[11] Open this Little Book also plays with the form of the book, using different sizes of paper to create a space for play and discovery.[7]

• Alice in Wonderland. Edizioni Corraini. 2002. ISBN 978-88-87942-27-9.
• La revanche des lapins. Editions La Joie de Lire. 2003. ISBN 978-2882582485.
• Mirror. Edizioni Corraini. 2003. ISBN 978-8-887942-40-8.
• The Zoo. BIR Publishing Co. 2004. ISBN 978-89-491-0047-0.
• Action Korean Alphabet. GilbutKid. 2006.
• My Bright Atelier. BIR Publishing Co. 2008.
• Wave. Chronicle Books. 16 April 2008. ISBN 978-0-8118-5924-0.
• Shadow. Chronicle Books. 1 September 2010. ISBN 978-0-8118-7280-5.
• Love You, My Baby. BIR Publishing Co. 2013.
• The Night of Rabbits. Bear Book. 2013.
• Lines. Chronicle Books. 5 September 2017. ISBN 1452156654 [12]

2014, Best Books of the Year for Children and YA., Bank Street College of Education Book Committee, for Open This Little Book

2013, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Picture Book Honor Winner), U.S.A., for Open This Little Book

2010, Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 by The New York Times, U.S.A., for Shadow

2010, Prêmio FNLIJ Luis Jardim - O Melhor Livro de Imagem by FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil), Brazil, for Shadow

2008, Premio Albumilustrado by Gremio de Librerios de Madrid (Asociación de Empresarios del Comercio del Libro de Madrid), Spain, for Wave

2008, Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 by The New York Times, U.S.A., for Wave

2008, Gold Medal for Original Art by the Society of Illustrators, U.S.A., for Wave

2008, Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English, U.S.A., for The Zoo

2003, The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2003 by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland, for La revanche des lapins

• Official website
• "Picture Perfect: Author and illustrator, Suzy Lee", JADE Magazine
• "Narrative of a Book Artist: Suzy Lee", Behind the Books
• "Suzy Lee", Paper Tigers
• "Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Suzy Lee", 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast, August 12, 2008
• Suzy Lee at Library of Congress Authorities, with 10 catalog records