Sea Hyun Lee

Seahyun Lee reconciles the past and the present to continue his series ‘Between Red’. The oil paintings are inspired by his time in the Korean military, during which he was stationed at the Demilitarized Zone - an area that serves as a physical buffer between North and South Korea. From memory, he creates detailed landscape paintings of the iconic region, rendered in shades of crimson that simultaneously reference the infrared goggles the artist wore while on night watch, and highlight the complicated and painful legacy of his homeland. His scenes are likewise ripe with symbolism, serving as a solemn reminder of past conflicts on these seemingly peaceful grounds. Lee’s paintings are not overtly political, but they purposefully combine elements of the North and South Korean terrains, merging the two halves of the divided Korean peninsula in a gesture that seems both nostalgic and utopian. b.1967, Lives and Works in Seoul EDUCATION 1989 BFA Department of Western Painting, Hongik University, Seoul 2001 MFA Department of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul 2006 MFA Department of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 Red Sansu: A Landscape Within (curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery),Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne 2023 Red Sansu: A Landscape Within (curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery), Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin Beyond Red - Sansu, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 2022 CONTEXT, Gallery KUZO, Seoul 2021 Between the Red: Golden Age, White K Gallery, Goyang 2020 Lee Sea Hyun, The Columns Gallery, Singapore 2019 Red Sansu, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea 2018 Red Sansu : The Moments, Shinsegae Gallert Centum City, Busan, Korea 2015 Red- Silly Dream, Mimesis Art Museum, Paju, Korea 2014 Between Red, VOUS ETES ICI Gallery, Amsterdam 2012 Plastic Garden, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul 2011 Between Red, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York 2009 Between Red, Zonca & Zonca Gallery, Milan Between Red, Harewood House, Leeds, UK Between Red, ASPEX Contemporary Art Gallery, Portsmouth, UK Between Red, Union Gallery, London Between Red, One and J Gallery, Seoul 2007 Between Red, MIKI WICK KIM Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland 2001 Daily, Contemporary Museum of Hongik University, Seoul 1999 THE, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Yangju, Korea 1998 The Navel of Sea, 21st Century Gallery, Seoul 1997 The Garden of Narcissus, Deokweon Gallery, Seoul SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 HUMAN, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul The Hidden Masterpiece part II., Gallery BK, Seoul 2022 Trace of The Blue Marble ,Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu Expo D Exhibition Hall, Yeosu, Korea Sea Hyun Lee, Young Wook Choi, ROA Gallery, Incheon FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul Berlin meets Seoul–Menschsein / Being Human, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul (Nov.) and Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin (March) 2021 Border Crossings - North and South Korean Art from The Sigg Collection, Konst Museum, Bern, Switzerland ILLUSION : Between Reality and Fantasy, KUZO Gallery,Seoul, Korea BVLGARI Colors, Hangaram Art Museum,Seoul, Korea Landscape, Artcode Gallery, Seoul SU: HANNAM Selected works Private Viewing, SU: HANNAM Art Consulting 2020 ATELIER AKI 10th Anniversary Part Ⅱ _ ENDLESS : Extended Sight, ATELIER AKI Roses are red, violets are blue., SU: HANNAM Art Consulting 2019 DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2018 Gyeonggi Millennium Docufesta, Gyeonggi Archive-Now,Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Anshan, Korea Gyeonju International Residency Art Festa 2018. Through-Harmony, Hwangnyongsa Historic Museum, Gyeonju, Korea Pohang Steel Art Festival, Pohang, Korea Wall of Vision , Art Delight Gallery, Seoul, Korea TR3S ESPEJOS DE COREA, Museo Nacional de las Culturay del Mundo, Mexico The Third Print, HOMO ARCHIVIST, Dohing Art, Seuol, Korea Jeju 4,3 is Now Our History, National Museum of Korean, Seoul, Korea Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong Grand Opening Exhibition, Bloming at the Junction, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2017 Unccd Cop 13 “Save The Eath” Green Corps Exhibition, Planting for Hope, Land for Life, Ordos International Convention and Exhibition Center, Ordos Inner Mongolia, China Neo – naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea Six Perspective on Landscape, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea KOREA TOMORROW2017, Narrative Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 2016 Hybridizing Earth Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale, Korea, Busan OLD & NEW: Yesterday is the discipline through which we advance- Homage to Kansong, Dongdaemun Design Plaza Kansong Museum. Seoul, Korea Black, White, Red . ART SPACE BEN, Seoul, Korea. “Please Return to Busan Port”, Vestfossen Museum, Norway April the Eternal Voyage, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Anshan, Korea EAST BRIDGE 2016 – Plastic Garden, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea Contemporary Sansuhwa, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong 2015 EAST BRIDGE 2016 – Plastic Garden, Force Gallery, Beijing 798, China “Have a Good day, Mr, Kim”, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany L’exposition de” Seoul ‘Vite Vite’ a Tripostal, Lille, Commissaire, France 2014 Korea Tomorrow, Dongdaemun Design Plaza Museum, Seoul The Moment, We Awe, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China Sweet Dew- since 1980, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea Neo-Sansu, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea 2013 Pulse of Sight, Hakgojae Shanghai, Shanghai Real Landscape of the day, Gyeomjae Jeongseon Memorial Museum, Seoul The Moment, We Awe, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, China 2012 (Im)Possible Landscape, PLATEAU, Seoul Cynical Resistance, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam One must imagine Sisyphus happy, House of the Nobleman, London Prelude, Space Cottonseed, Singapore 2011 彼我同一: We are who you are, Gallery Jijihyang, GyeongGi, Korea Sea of Peace, Incheon Art Platform, GyeongGi, Korea he Future Pass, International Art Exhibition “ILLUMInations Biennale Venezia”, Venezia, Italy Bad Exhibition, PIN Gallery, Beijing 2010-11 Korean Art Issue 2010: Art of National Division – The Flower on the Snow, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea 2010 Plastic Garden, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai The Accursed Share, Gallery Artside, Beijing New Organ, Space* C, Seoul Different Similarity, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany Here and There – The World in Motion 2010, LuXun Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Shenyang, China; Seoul, Busan 2009 Trans Real-My Hometown, Asia House, London City net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul After Gogo: New Era of Korean Art, 2009 Ljubliana Graphic Biennale, Cankarjev Dom Gallery, Ljubliana, Slovenia A Different Similarity, Santralistanbul Museum, Istanbul Korea on the Rocks, Art Seasons Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2008 Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York My Name is Red, FURINI Arts Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy 4482 Korean Artists in London, Bargehouse OXO Tower Wharf, London Asian Art in London, Of Origin and Future, I – MYU Projects, London Landslide, I – MYU Project, London 2007 Sense of Moment, Cais Gallery, Hong Kong 4482: Korean Contemporary Artists in London, King’s park Studio, London Late at Tate Britain, Fold07 performance, Tate Britain, London The Catlin Art Prize 2007, My Life in Art Gallery, London Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna 2006 Susak Expo, Island of Susak, Croatia Still Dynamics, Jerwood Space, London 2003 Difference of Time, Noam Gallery, Seoul 2001 Humidity, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul Origin, Sejong Centre for the Performing Arts, Seoul 1999 Korea-Australia Exchange Exhibition, Dansoung Gallery, Seoul Origin, Gang Gallery, Seoul Cord-New Image, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul 1998 Millennium, Hyundai Art Gallery, Seoul 1997 FROG, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul WSIN WIND NOW ‘97, Museum of Hunabaci, Japan 1994 Korea – Japan Modern Art Exchange, Arts Hall, Seoul Turning Point of Concept Toward 2000, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Subconscious of 20 People, Chung Nam Art Gallery, Seoul Self Portrait – A Net of Time, Arts Hall, Seoul 1993 Young Views, Mikun Gallery, Seoul Self Search of Correspondent, Beakah Museum, Daegu, Korea 1993-96 The 4-8 Walking People, Dukwon Gallery, ChungNam Museum, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul 1992 KEY, InDeco Gallery, Seoul New Generation Painting’s Cross-Section, Kyungin Gallery, Seoul 1989 SYNDROME, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul New Artists, KoKung Museum, Seoul Space Experience Through Painterly Eyes, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul Glass Table>, Do-Wol Gallery, Seoul From Human, Matter, and Existence, Kwanhoon Museum, Seoul ‘89 – Direction, Do-Wol Gallery, Seoul 1988 The 7th Korea Art Fair, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon The 11th Central Art Fair, Ho-Wahm Art Hall, Seoul 1986 The 9th Central Art Fair, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon Selected Public Collections All Visual Arts, London Bank of America, USA Berger Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Collection of Lorraine, Barrick, Seattle, USA Fidelity Investment, Boston, USA Hana Bank Collection, Seoul Microsoft Art Collection, USA Uli Sigg Collection, Zurich LEEUM Collection, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China