Education
2006 M.F.A. Hong-Ik University, Painting, Seoul, Korea 2004 B.F.A. Hong-Ik University, Painting, Seoul, Korea 2000 B.F.A. Hong-Ik University, Printmaking, Seoul, Korea
Career
Selected Solo Exhibition 2022 Can you hear me? NanaAstro, Studio KKI, Gyeonggi, Korea Old way x New Era, Noblesse Collection, Seoul, Korea 2021 LEE KYOUNGMI, Tsutaya Books, Shanghai, China 2020 One Day at a Time, Liang Project, Shanghai, China 2019 Then & Now; New Vertical painting/Durer’s, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea I Got Life, Liang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2018 Farewell My Love - waning splendor, Liang Project Co Space, Shanghai, China 2017 Parallax, Gallery Planet, Seoul, Korea 2015 Utopia as a Distant View, TOSEE Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2014 Artist’s House, Seong Buk Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2012 On Being the Right Size, CAIS Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2011 You Don’t Own Me, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2009 Street on the Table, CAIS Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2008 Nana Lee and Ranken Kim, PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 Room for Nana, C art café in CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2006 The Nine Doors, Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Selected Group Exhibition 2021 Visits from my window sill friends, Artbelt Soje, Daejeon, Korea 2021 BFC Art Festival 2021, Shanghai, China 2020 Iconic, Art Delight, Seoul, Korea Upclose 01, M Contemporary, Seoul, Korea W299 PROJECT, Brugier Rigail Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2019 Cat point of View, Clayarch Gimhae, Gimhae, Korea Image: Fascinating Alchemy, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea Moving and Observing, Liang Project Co Space, Shanghai, China 2018 Surface & Structure, Lina Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2017 畫畫-With Companions, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea 2015 Beyond Memories, Gallery Planet, Seoul, Korea 2014 Reality on the Reality, Art Space Jungmiso, Seoul, Korea K-P.O.P. Korea Contemporary Arts, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan The Culture Code, Springs Center of Art, Beijing, China 2012 Jumping Spring, Space K, Seoul, Korea Out of Frame, Inter Alia, Seoul, Korea The Carnival of the Animals, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Korea Tomorrow, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 2010 The Multiple, PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2009 Illusion, Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Books, Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2008 Neo Sensibility, With SPACE Gallery, Beijing, China Trompe-loel in Imagination, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 Star Exhibition, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Sense of Moment, CAIS Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Korean Contemporary Artist 40-YKA, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Critical Perspective, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Tribute for a Devotee, SP Gallery, Seoul, Korea Real Seeing & Real View, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea The Story of Cats & Dogs, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Diversity in Form & Thoughts, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Collection National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Suwon District Court, Korea
Awards career
2019 24th Seok Joo Art Awards, Seok Joo Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea Liang International Youth Artist, Liang Museum of Art, Shanghai, China 2003 Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul, Korea 2002 Danwon Art Festival, Ansan, Korea Shinsaimdang Arts Exhibition, Gangneung, Korea
Lee Kyoungmi paints surrealistic scenes combining various spaces and times through the use of three-dimensional panels and techniques of hyperrealism. The surrealistic scenes often feature a cat, a symbol of isolation, and a creature that Lee simultaneously views as her persona. Her canvases are filled with buildings, fabric, books, and other seemingly-unrelated objects, but, in fact, each object is filled with connotations personal and private to Lee and symbolizes Lee’s understanding of the world and her attitude in engaging with it. Like the two sides of a coin, irrationality and truth coexist in the world, and Lee strives to fill the gap between them through her paintings, a series of endless questions and answers.