Lee Hyunjeong is an artist who visualizes Korean identity and the traces of modern history through her 〈Kimchi〉 series and works on peace and the DMZ. Her solo exhibitions include 〈Kimchi_Breath〉 at CICA Museum (2022), 〈Kimchi〉 at Alternative Art Space Ipo (2019) and at GALLERIE LUTÈCE PRESENTS in COEX (2024), and 〈Ms. Lee's Drifting〉 at the Jeong Mun-gyu Museum of Art (2023). She participated in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics' 〈DMZ Art Festa: Peace—Wind〉, was invited to 〈UTOPIA?! PEACE〉 at the Berlin Wall Memorial and Kunstraum Potsdam (2023), and received the Excellence Award at the 2024 Fukuoka Art Award. In 2026, she was selected as a long-term resident artist at the Hongti Art Center (Busan Cultural Foundation). Her works are held in the collections of the Fukuoka Art Museum and the Goseong DMZ Museum.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024 GALLERIE LUTÈCE PRESENTS_Kimchi (12/24-12/28, COEX, Seoul)
2023 Ms. Lee's Drifting (2/15-3/1, Jeong Mun-gyu Museum of Art)
2022 Kimchi_Breath (3/30-4/3, CICA Museum)
2022 Moon of the Top (1/10-1/26, Gallery Hoho)
2021 Breath_Profound (1/28-2/17, Art Jamsil)
2019 Kimchi (11/20-11/30, Alternative Art Space Ipo)
2016 WHO AM I? (11/25-12/8, Jeongsu Gallery)
2015 Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form (3/11-4/3, AP Gallery)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 <DMZ International Art Exchange Project for the 80th Anniversary of Liberation: Beyond Borders>, DMZ Museum & Unification Observatory, Goseong (Gangwon-do)
2025 <Counter Memory, Counter Voices> Finale Performance, Daegu Station, Daegu
2025 <New Simdo Journey - Bridging Two Worlds Through Art>, Ganghwa War Museum Lawn, Ganghwa
2024 <Fukuoka Art Award 2024> Laureate Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2023 <UTOPIA?! PEACE>, Kunstraum Potsdam / Berlin Wall Memorial (Bernauer Straße) / Babelsberg Palace, Germany
2023 <FREEDOM 2023>, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2022 <Changwon Sculpture Biennale - Beyond Borders Project>, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon
2022 <SIEAF Seomjin River International Experimental Art Festival>, Jewolseom, Gokseong
2021 <After DMZ, Breath of the Earth>, Yangpyeong Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do
2021 <Yeosu International Art Festival>, Yeosu Expo Convention Center, Yeosu
2020 <Kathmandu Contemporary Art Exhibition>, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
2018 <DMZ Art Festa 2018 "Peace: Wind"> (2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics), Goseong Unification Observatory & DMZ Museum, Gangwon-do
2018 <DMZ Art Festa 2018 "Peace: Wind"> (2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympics), Gwanghwamun Square, Festival Park PyeongChang, DMZ Museum, Gangwon-do
and others
Awards & Selections
2026 <Hongti Art Center Residency> Long-term Resident Artist Selected, Busan Cultural Foundation
2024 2nd <Fukuoka Art Award> Excellence Award, Fukuoka Art Museum
2023 <UTOPIA?! PEACE> Invited & Selected, Kunstraum Potsdam / Berlin Wall Memorial / Babelsberg Palace, Germany - Berlin Wall Foundation & Kunstraum Potsdam
2018 <DMZ Art Festa 2018 "Peace: Wind"> (2018 PyeongChang Cultural Olympiad) Artist Selected, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism & Gangwon-do
2016-2017 Overseas Exhibition Corporate Sponsorship Artist Selected, Shinjin Steel Co.
2013 20th <Korea Art International Competition> Excellence Award, Korea Art International Exchange Association
and others
Collections
Fukuoka Art Museum (2024)
Goseong DMZ Museum (2018)
