Soo Hyun Lee(b.1998) is a visual
artist based in London who works with painting, video installation, and
performance. She graduated
from Goldsmiths MFA
Fine Art in 2024 with a Distinction and graduated from Korea University, Seoul, with a BFA in Fine
Art major degree and BA in Sociology major degree in 2022.
Recent exhibitions include <Daphne’s Daughter’s> at MEY Gallery Los Angeles, <K-Women Celebrating Korean Female Artists>, curated by 4482 at Kingston Museum London, <Ten Fingers Connected to the Heart> at Mandy Zhang Art London,
<Whispered Canvases> at Silian Gallery, London, <Who Knows
what the earth was before Love> at Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome.
The Artist is interested in the
social values and beliefs created in the world and how individuals relate and
react to those. The artist especially explores the social values and beliefs
that are hard to define singularly, but significantly influence an individual's
life, such as eternity, hope, shame, love, and care. Through her investigation,
the artist questions how each people's perspective and experience could
differently define these kinds of values.
Her
recent work has taken an interest in care. Her interest in caring reveals
diverse sensualities of it, such as care being addictive and self-destructive
or being a step toward understanding and forgiveness. For example, in her
latest painting, "I have seen this coming, 2024", the artist depicts
several characters born by her two years of drawing when she was in several
kinds of unideal caring relationships. Through this painting, the artist shows
each character's stories, reactions, and timelines in different types of caring
situations.
After
moving to London, based on her experience as an Asian bilingual speaker, she is
applying the dynamic of language and communication in her art practice.