Born in Seoul, South Korea
Currently lives and works in New Haven, CT, USA
SOLO and DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 INDEFINITE HISTORIES with Steven DiGiovanni, New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2022 Red Scene, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Reflective Surface, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Mash-Up, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2006 Jihyun Lee, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 Going out, do Art Gallery / Gallery Hyundai_Window Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 Confusion of Daily Space, Art Space HUE, Seoul, Korea
2003 1st Solo Show, Gallery ARTINUS, Seoul, Korea
2001 Lee Jihyun & Lim Youngjoo Duo Show, Gallery Hello Art, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Glorious Index, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2024 Deserve What You Dream, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
2024 Small, iiiiotae_Project Space, New Haven, CT
2024 Landing Point, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023 Blocks and Bridges: Worldbuilding in New Haven, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2023 Art Drops: A Sense of Place (organized by Haven Arts Park), Havenly, New Haven, CT
2021 Final Cut, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Everything is Different Now, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2020 Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2018 Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statements, 371 Broadway, New York, NY
2018 The Greatest Show on Earth, Slideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art. Letter. Home: Artist Manuscript, Main Gallery at CAA, Hangzhou, China
2017 AAAAAAAAAAAAH!, Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Need for My Care, Waterfall Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Artists with Arario_Part 2, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Paranoid Scene, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
2010 Artists with Arario_Part 1, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2009 Document Culture: Tradition and Present, MoA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2009 Double Fantasy-Korean Contemporary Art, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2009 Young Korean Artist 1 – Space on Surface, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Another Worlds, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2006 The Way of Viewing Objects, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005 Vision & Perspective, Busan Museum of Modern Arts, Busan, Korea
2005 My Private Gallery, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Seoul Exhibition of Young Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005 The 3rd_ Preview, Alternative Space_Team Preview, Seoul, Korea
2005 The Space of ‘SUM’, Gallery Sun, Seoul, Korea
2004 Scent of Woon Jung, Sungshin Women's Univ. Museum, Seoul, Korea
2004 Project 139: The Garden of Forking Paths, Il-min Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2003 Collected Painting, Alternative Space_LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2003 The 9th Contemporary Expressions of Korean Young Artist, Gwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003 Selected Name Card, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2002 Happy Flying Pig Metro, City Metro_Line 5, Seoul, Korea
2002 Open a Refrigerator, Ehwa Woman's Univ., Seoul, Korea
2002 The 5th Seoul Fringe Festival, Seoul, Korea
2001 The 4th Indie Festival, Club Super Fly, Seoul, Korea
2001 Water, Seoul Museum of Modern Arts, Seoul, Korea
2001 China Robot Mask, Dong-duk Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 The 2nd Working in The Gallery, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2000 Seven Person's Turmoil, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 l'Amour Aveugle, Sempio factory, Seoul, Korea
2000 Virus-the 3rd Indie Festival, Seoul, Korea
2000 The 1st Working in the gallery, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
RESIDENCY
2012 Doosan Artist Residency, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2018 M.F.A. Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2003 M.F.A. Painting, Sungshin Women's University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
2001 B.F.A. Painting, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
· Exhibition Review: The Past Is Reworked In “Indefinite Histories” by Kepp Singer, Dec 1st, 2023, Arts Council Greater New Haven
· Exhibition Review: Artist Build Worlds At CAW Show by Brian Slattery, Oct 4th , 2023, New Haven Independent
· Exhibition Review: “Blocks And Bridges” Binds Past, Present, and Future by Kepp Singer, Oct 4th, 2023, Arts Council Greater New Haven
· Exhibition Review: “Red Psychological Atlas” by JEONG Hyeon, Art critic, in the June, 2022 issue of Art In Culture, a review of LEE Jihyun's solo exhibition "Red Scene", held in Arario Gallery Seoul, March 17- May 29, 2022. (print)
· Reflective Surface: Jihyun Lee, the occasion of the solo exhibition “Reflective Surface,” held in Arario Gallery, Seoul, May 15 – June 12, 2008
ISBN 978-89-92262-43-9 93650 (catalog)
· Threshold: Jihyun Lee, the occasion of the solo exhibition “Threshold,” held in Doosan Gallery, Seoul, March 7 -April 4, 2013 and New York, NY, Oct. 11-Nov. 3 2012
ISBN 978-89-92262-86-6 96650 (catalog)
· Interview: “The beautiful moment, dividing time horizontally and vertically” by IlJoo Jung, Chief editor, January 2017 Vol.124, PUBLIC ART, South Korea (print)
· Artist Review: “A story beyond the threshold” by BAN E Jung, Art critic, April 2013 Vol.339, Monthly Art, South Korea (print)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
MMCA Art Bank, Korea
ARARIO Museum, Korea
GS Energy Art Collection, Korea
Byuck San Engineering Art Collection, Korea
SUN Contemporary, Korea
UBS Art Collection, USA