Kwangho Lee

Lee Kwang-Ho Born in 1967, Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea Lives and works in Seoul, Korea Currently a professor of Western Painting at Ewha Womans University, College of Arts and Design, Seoul, Korea Education 1999 MFA in Printmaking, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Korea 1994 BFA in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Korea Selected Solo Exhibitions 2025 GHOST IN THE SHELL , SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE / PARK, Tokyo, Japan The Severance of the Serpent’s Neck , Frieze House, Seoul, Korea Traces of Gaze, Johyun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2023 Lee Kwang-Ho: BLOW-UP , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2021 Lee Kwang Ho , GALLERY2 Joongsun Nongwon, Jeju, Korea Lee Kwang Ho , Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2020 Lee Kwang Ho , Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2018 Lee Kwang Ho , Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2016 Lee Kwang Ho , Art Central (Johyun Gallery), Hong Kong 2014 Picturing Landscape , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2012 Caress , Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea 2011 Touch, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2010 Touch , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2008 Lee Kwang-Ho , Daegu MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea 2006 Inter-View in Changdong , MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, Korea 2003 Paintings with Annotations , Hanjeon Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2002 The Spy, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea 2001 Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea 1996 Lee Kwang-Ho , Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 O SERIES: Kwangho Lee x FORMAT , SKWAT KAMEARI ART CENTRE / PARK, Tokyo, Japan on Flora and on Painting , LEEHWAIK GALLERY, Seoul, Korea 2024 2024 4th JEJU BIENNALE - The Drift of Apagi: The Way of Water, Wind, and Stars , Jeju Museum of Art and other venues, Jeju, Korea Cloudy 3pm , Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Witty Fake , Koo House Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea on Flora and Painting , LEEHWAIK GALLERY, Seoul, Korea 2023 UNBOXING PROJECT 2: Portable Gallery, N ew Spring Project, Seoul, Korea Samdadojingyung (Landscape of Three Abundances): Human, Myth, and Nature , Seogwipo Arts Center, Jeju, Korea on Flora and Painting , LEEHWAIK GALLERY, Seoul, Korea 2022 Seeing Beyond , Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Moments We Encounter, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea Instinctively, both , Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea Growing Plants , Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Seongnam, Korea I AM SORRY! I AM NOT REAL, MOM! , Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea on Flora and Painting , LEEHWAIK GALLERY, Seoul, Korea 2021 Present of Nature , Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea We connect Art & Future , Kiaf and INCHEON AIRPORT, Incheon, Korea Will Snow Fall on Ruins, on Ruins? , Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea on Flora and Painting , TONG-IN Gallery, Seoul, Korea Friendship: Mentor-Mentee , Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Support SARUBIA 2021 , Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea 2019 Figurative Abstract , Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital ART CUBE, Seoul, Korea 2018 Botanica , Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Dictionary of Contemporary Art, 7 Keywords Exhibition , Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea 2017 With Companions , Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The Ordinary Amount of Light and Air , Kimsechoong Museum, Seoul, Korea FRIENDSHIP : MENTOR-MENTEE , Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Neo-naturalism , Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea 2016 Beyond Representation-Encounter with the Hyperreal World , Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea A7, Gallery imazoo, Seoul, Korea Being In Nature , Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea 2016 Alma Mater II, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2015 Support SARUBIA 2015 , Gallery 3, Seoul, Korea Christie's Asian Contemporary Art , Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China 2015 Asia Art Archive Annual Fundraiser , The Space, Hong Kong, China Same Difference (Lee Kwang-Ho, Yoo Geun-Taek), space bm, Seoul, Korea Seven Signs, Park Soo Keun Museum, Yanggu, Korea WE HEAR IT , GALLERY MARK, Seoul, Korea Korea Tomorrow 2015 , Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Realism Interface, Seokdang Museum of Dong-A University, Busan, Korea Stranger Seen Through Inward Eye, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea Illusion and Fantasy, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2014 Royal Jelly, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea 2013 Manifestation, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea AMMA UMMA!, India International Centre, New Delhi, India Residing in private places, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea Reality, Between Representation and Autonomy , Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea Still Life, CSP111 ARTSPACE, Seoul, Korea Made in Hands, Gallery Sein, Seoul, Korea Trace of Korean Contemporary Art, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Dialogue in the moonlight, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea Human, For a while, Culture Factory Osan, Osan, Korea 2012 Im/Pulse to See, Gallery 101, Seoul, Korea Korean Eye 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Chae Yong Sin and Korean Portraits – Ideals and Illusions, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea Manner in Korean Paintings, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea Shift, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2011 The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011_Hyperrealism, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Abstract it!, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea Seekers of the Future of Memories , Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea FICTION & NONFICTION , Interalia, Seoul, Korea 2010 Instinctively, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea Defense Mechanism , TN Gallery, Beijing, China Biennale+ one – Why Korea Contemporary art Now , Space zoo, Gwangju, Korea The Lamp of the East, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea & Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India Busan Biennale- Now Asian Artist, Citizen Hall, Busan, Korea Hyperrealism Painters, Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea 2009 Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic Non-landscape Landscape , Pocheon Art Valley, Pocheon, Korea 2008 Reality – Portraits, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea Beyond Definition: still-life, portrait, landscape , Interalia, Seoul, Korea Fifty-five Contemporary Artists , Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Reality in Contemporary Art , Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 On Painting , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Video Killed the Painting Star, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain Con-terminal , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea A Complex , Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Where Euclid Walked , Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Charge Your Imagination , Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Korean Reality & Spirit , Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea Window and Light , Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Context & Figure , Daewon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2006 Selected Artist Exhibition for the III edition of the Castellon County Council International Painting Prize , Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, Castellón, Spain New Acquisitions , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Figures in Landscape , The Newgate East, Seoul, Korea Propose 7, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The Truth of Six Rooms , SAVINA Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Face of Our Time , Yunseul Art Gallery, Gimhae Arts & Sports Center, Gimhae, Korea Joongang Fine Art Prize , Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Angel , Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea 2005 Ryu Yong-moon, Lee Kwang-Ho , Gallery Space Sadi, Seoul, Korea Art & Film , SAVINA Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Scenery look at the eye , Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea Read a diary , Gallery Wooduk, Seoul, Korea Seoul Print 2005 , TOPOHAUS, Seoul, Korea 2004 Seam, Gallery Myart, Seoul, Korea 2003 The Void of Representation , Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea Trick, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Family , Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea 2002 One Thousand Eyes, One Thousand Ways , Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea Korea Young Artists Biennale 2002 , Gallery of Daegu Culture Center, Daegu, Korea The Mystery , Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea SONGEUN Art Award , Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea Visual & Figure , Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea 2001 Young Creation - Seeing, Being Seen, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2000 Paintings for Nurturing the Intelligence , Gallery Savina, Seoul, Korea Convergence and Divergence , Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea 1999 Painting / Picture , Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Exhibition of Rhu, Lee, Kim , Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea M.F.A. Exhibition , Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 1998 The Art of Painting , Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1997 Inter-View , Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea 300 Spaces , Gallery Yoon, Seoul, Korea The Political Survival of Artists , GALLERY BODA, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition , Tokyo National University, Tokyo, Japan 1996 The Language of Print Exhibition , GALLERY BODA, Seoul, Korea D-22 / Politics outside of Politics , GALLERY BODA, Seoul, Korea Tomorrow's Print Exhibition , Gallery Dansung, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition , Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 1995 Contemporary Korean Print Competition , Dongbang Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Drawing Exhibition , Tokyo National University, Japan 1994 Convergence and Divergence , Incheon Citizen Hall, Incheon, Korea Selected Awards 2006 Selected Artists for the 3 rd International Painting Prize of the Castellón County Council, Spain Award of Excellence, Joongang Fine Arts Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 2005-6 International Artist Studio Program, MMCA Residency Changdong, Korea 2003 Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Fellowship, Seoul, Korea 1995 Award of Excellence, Contemporary Korean Print Competition, Seoul, Korea Selected Public and Private Collections National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Government Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea Suwon Musuem of Art, Suwon, Korea By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China