ABOUT SUNJOO LEE
EDUCATION
MFA - Plastic Art & Photography
Chung-Ang University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
BFA (Academic Credit Bank System) - Photography
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
BA - Arts & Music
Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023: My Golden House, Metagallery LaLuna, Seoul, Korea
2022: UNTOLD, Korea Photography Gallery
2022: Still life, Ryu Kyung Gallery, Pyeongchang, Gangwondo, Korea
2021: Untitled, Youngeun Museum of contemporary art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do
2019: Musical Silence, Gallery Now, Seoul Korea
2017: Memorabilia, Gallery Gong, Seoul, Korea
2017: Wanderlust 3, Gallery Guha, Seoul, Korea
2016: The Garden, Space 291, Seoul,Korea
INVITATIONAL AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024: Undress me my little BUDDA, HASHI Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2023: Undress me my little BUDDHA, Global Art Project directed by Rainer Junghanns, Alternative Artspace IPO, Seoul,Korea
2023: IOAF, Gallery Soyeun, Seoul Korea
2023: SIAA Korea Member's exhibition, Seoul Korea
2021~2022: 15th JMCA & Pollux Exhibition within the 6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Fotonostrum Gallery, Barocelona, Spain
2020. 11-12: Vision 20 Haslla Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Haslla Art Museum, 강릉, Korea
2020.11-12: Black Memorabilia #9, The 2020 International Juried Show at The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA USA
2020: Memorabilia3 Jaqueline, “TRIFECTA -Portraits 2020” thec4fap Fort Collins, CO USA
2020.3: Black Memorabilia 4, “Black, White & More” Exhibition, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, USA
2020.2: Black Memorabilia and Memorabilia 2 series, “Noise”, Art Museum of Kim Bosung. Seoul, South Korea
2019: Who we are, “Primary Source” Exhibition, The Lafayette Center Gallery at Downtown Boston, MA, USA
2019: BLACK MEMORABILIA4, 25th Juried show Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography , Winchester, MA, USA
2019: MUSICA SILENCE, Permanent Exhibiton, Youngwol Y Park, Young Wol, South Korea
2019: MEMORABILIA3, Outspoken:Expanded, The RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, USA
2018: MEMORABILIA 2,3, Permanent Exhibition, Haslla Arts Museum, Gangneung,
2018: MEMORABILIA3, Donggang International Photo Festival,Young Wol, Korea
2018: MEMORABILIA3, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2016: BRISAS DE COREA, Galeria Saro Leon, Las Palmas, Spain
2016: Chung-Ang University’s Gallery La Mer, Seoul, Korea
2015: Chung-Ang University’s Gallery Dongduk, Seoul, Korea
2014: Chung-Ang University Gallery Dongduk, Seoul, Korea
RECOGNITION
2020: Black Memorabilia#9 select work, 2020 International Juried Show at The Center of Photographic Art, Carmel, CA USA (Aline Smithson)
2020: Memorabilia3 Jaquline, “TRIFECTA-Portraits 2020” Honorable Mentions The Center for Fine art Photography at Fort Collins, CO USA (Hamidah Glasgow)
2020: Black Memorabilia select work, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Category the Feminine Universe Honorable Mention (Elizabeth Avedon)
2020: Black Memorabilia4 select work, Black, White & More Juried Exhibition, Greenville, SC USA (Paula Tognarelli)
2019: Black Memoraiblia4 select work, 25th Juried show Exhibition, 1st Place, Richards’ Family Trust Award, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, USA. (Julie Grahame)
2018: Black Memoraiblia and Musical Silence, New and Now Exhibition award, Gallery Now, Seoul,Korea (Lee Sunshim, Yang Jonghoon)
2018: Memorabilia3, The growing up, Donggang International Photo Festival, YoungWol, Korea (Festival committee)
2018: Memorabilia3, The San Francisco Bay Area International Photo Festival, Gold medal, ACCI Gallery, Berkely, CA, USA (Aline Smithson)
PUBLICATIONS
2020: Black Memorabilia “Noise”, Seoul, Korea
2019: Black Memorabilia: aCurator the highlights of 2019 for aCuratour (by Julie Grahame) Brooklyn, NY USA
2019: Black Memorabilia and Memorabilia2: aPhotoEditor, The Best work I saw at Photolucida, (by Jonathan Blaustein), USA
2019: Black Memorabilia: Summer’s Bounty/What will you remember, (by Suzanne Revy) USA
2019: Black Memorabilia: What will you remember, Curator’s Viewpoint- Julie Grahame, (by Elin Spring) USA
2019: IF1: Fraction Magazine, (by David Bram) 122-1, USA
2019: Memoraiblia3: AEQAI, Fotofolio: (by Kent Krugh), USA
2019: Musical Silence: Photo Art Magazine vol.361, South Korea
2019: Musical Silence, Black Memorabilia, Memorabilia1,2: Photo Dot Magazine vol57, South Korea
2019: Musical Silence: Photo Journal, South Korea
2019: Musical Silence, Memorabilia: Sports Seoul New paper, South Korea
2019: Musical Silence: FotoMa, South Korea
2018: Memorabilia: Photo Art Magazine vol.345, South Korea
2018: Memorabilia: Lenscratch, USA
2017: Memorabilia: Photo Art Magazine vol.344, South Korea
2017: Memorabilia: Ewha woman’s Univ. Magazine vol149, South Korea
2017: Wanderlust3: Photo art Magazine vol.337, South Korea
2017: Wanderlust3: SportsSeoul News Paper, South Korea
2016: The Garden: Seoul Art Guide, South Korea
2016: The Garden: Photo Dot Magazine, vol29, South Korea
BOOK
2017: Wanderlust 3, Space 291, Seoul, South Korea
RESIDENCE
2020 - 2022 Youngeun Museum of contemporary art
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Haslla Arts Museum, Gangneung, South Korea
YoungWol Y Park, Youngwol, South Korea
Sunjoo Lee is a mixed media photographer based in Seoul, South Korea.
Lee’s extraordinary artistic sensibility that was once portrayed through her voice is now visible through the works portrayed through her camera lens. Her photography focuses on a unique lyrical journey into her personal life. She explores her past, present, and future world in a temporal and spatial perspective.
She received a BA in Music from Ewha Women University, a second BA in Photography from Chung-Ang University, and an MFA in Plastic Art & Photography from Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Photography in Seoul, Korea. In 2019, she was awarded into the 11th cohort for the prestigious artist residency program at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art. Through this residency, she’s currently working on her upcoming series. Lee’s acclaimed works have been exhibited widely throughout the years in South Korea.
Most recently, she had her solo exhibition at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary art, Gwangju Korea. She’s also showcased at Gallery Now, Gallery Gong, Gallery Guha, and more in Seoul, South Korea. Her works are permanently displayed at the Haslla Arts Museum (Gangneung, Korea), and YoungWol Y. Park (Youngwol, Korea).
Her work at large, incorporates everyday objects and subjects to make visual sense of the complexities of human emotions and feelings derived from the intangible, such as music. Her photographic inspiration stems from her experiences of living and travelling abroad. She extracts the memories and various emotions born out of the human connections she’s made during that time of being in foreign spaces.
Building on this conceptual narrative, her work has landed her multiple recognitions, from the 2019 Critical Mass as a top 200 Finalist (USA) to the 1st Place Richards’ Family Trust Award during the 25th juried show at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, USA). In Korea, she was received the Dong Gang International Photo Festival’s Now and New Exhibition award.
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