Seung Ah Lee

Seung Ah Lee
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Seung Ah Lee (b. 1975) currently lives and works in Seoul and Singapore. She studied at Ewha Woman’s University and Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Seung Ah works in a variety of media, including printmaking, printed materials, video, sound, and installation. She creates her artworks that include the recent phenomena of society such as surveillance systems, record obsessions, and relationships of our complicated environment. Seung Ah is exploring how pervasive media and technology is in exposing our lives.

Most recently, her works have been shown at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore), the Lounge gallery (London), Korean Cultural Center (Sydney), Cultural Center "Magaza" (Macedonia), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (Australia), Total Museum, Sungkok museum, Seoul Art Center (Korea). She also engaged with diverse project exhibitions and workshops as an independent curator. During recent years, her works were collected by National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank (Korea) KBS Exhibition hall (Korea), Korean Film Archive (Korea).
Location
Seoul, South Korea
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Artist CV

Artist CV

Korea
b. 1975, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION

2010
Ph.D., Completion of Course work (major-media design), Ewha Womans University
Seoul, Korea
2007
M.A., Interactive Media, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
London, UK
2006
Diploma, Contemporary Theory, Goldsmiths College, University of London
London, UK
2002
M.F.A., Painting & Printmaking, Ewha Womans University
Seoul, Korea
1998 B.F.A., Painting, Ewha Womans University
Seoul, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Space15th
Seoul, Korea
2012
Objectifs
Singapore
2008
Gallery Dam
Seoul, Korea
2007
APT Gallery
London, UK
2005
Seo Gallery
Seoul, Korea
2004
Keumsan Gallery
Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Show Must Go On, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Singapore

2013
New Collections, Park Soo Keun Museum
Korea

2013
Cool Transprint, City Museum, Space of Kyung-Hee Palace
Seoul, Korea

2013
Panoramic Imprint, Substation
Singapore

2013
Between Mirrors: Infinite Reversibility, Ewha Art Center
Seoul, Korea

2012
Print and Communication, City Museum, Space of Kyung-Hee Palace
Seoul, Korea

2011
Eye pumping, Goodman arts center
Singapore

2011
New Image, New Usage, The History of Korean New Media Art, I-gong theater
Korea

2011
Korea Art Today, Korean Cultural Center
Sydney, Australia

2011
Digital four Senses, Hanbit Media Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2010
Boot: Re_cord, Space15th
Seoul, Korea

2010
Touch at, Space15th
Seoul, Korea

2010
Four Face, Hanbit Media Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2009
Cutting Edge, I-ang Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2009
Print your life!, City Museum, Space of Kyung-Hee Palace
Seoul, Korea

2009
Open the Source, Digital Play Ground, Total Museum
Seoul, Korea

2009
D.I.T. Project, Space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
Ewha Young Artist, Ewha Art Center
Seoul, Korea

2009
Walking Space, Artwall Gallery, Sinseogye
Seoul, Korea

2008
Threadhold Phenomena, Gallery Sangsangmadang
Seoul, Korea

2008
Playground, Total Museum
Seoul, Korea

2008
DongShim, Ewha Museum
Seoul, Korea

2008
UP AND COMERS, total Museum
Seoul, Korea

2008
Everyday Art, Sung Kok Museum
Seoul, Korea

2007
QUECPIX, Castello Svevo
Bari, Italy

2007
Art collection, SeoGallery
Seoul, Korea

2006
Sensuous Panorama, Lounge Gallery
London, UK

2005
ATTITUDE, Cultural Center "Magaza"
Bitola, Macedonia

2005
Composition & Center, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center
Seoul, Korea

2004
Book Project, Kumho Museum
Seoul, Korea

2004
Making Money, Chohung Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2004
Collision and Flow, SeoDaeMun penitentiary
Seoul, Korea

2003
New Frontier, Daegu Art Center
Daegu, Korea,

2003
Digital Salon, Art Space Hue
Seoul, Korea

2002
CROSS TALK, Korean Art Center
Seoul, Korea

2002
Real_Interface, IMA
Seoul, Korea

2002
Indy Video Festival, Art Cube Ilju Art House
Seoul, Korea

2002
WONDER, Gwanhoon Museum
Seoul, Korea

2001
Library Project, Jungdok Library
Seoul, Korea

2001
In-chon Post, In-chon Art Center
Kyonggi, Korea

2001
Nomadic Video, Art Side Net
Seoul, Korea

2001
MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific)
Australia

2001
Daily Five-Face, Art Cube Ilju Art House
Seoul, Korea

2001
N.Y. Project, Art Side Net 1F, Ssamzie Space 1F (sound)
Seoul, Korea

2001
Command 'P', Sagan Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2000
Media Art 21, Sejong Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2000 Contemporary Printmaking Contest, Jonglo Gallery Seoul, Korea

2000
The Public Cemetery Project, Hyosungwon
Kyonggi, Korea

2000
The Second Factory Project, Sampyo factory
Korea

2000
Indy Video Festival, Art Cube Ilju Art House
Seoul, Korea

2000
Thru the Book, There's
Seoul, Korea

1999
Digital art festival, Seoul Museum of art
Seoul, Korea

CURATINGS & WORKSHOPS

2011
Eye pumping, Goodman arts center
Singapore

2010
D.I.T. 2nd Workshop, Seoul Art Space_Seogyo
Seoul, Korea

2010
Four Faces, Hanbit Media Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2010
Playing Video, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2010
Collected landscape, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
Shift Signals, Hanbit Media Gallery
Seoul, Korea

2009
Time Machine, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
Tjukurpa: A sudden departure, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
D.I.T. Project Workshop, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
Moving Here, space15th
Seoul, Korea

2009
International Conference, Coordinator, Ewha Womans University
Seoul, Korea

2008
Threadhold Phenomena, Gallery Sangsangmadang
Seoul, Korea

JOURNALS & CONFERENCE 2010.7 “Implementation of An Electronic Guest Book As Media Arts Using Processing Language and Face Detection Function”, Digital Design Research, VOL.10 NO.3

2010. 2 2009. 12 “A study of artifacts based on interactive media”, info design issue VOL.9

2008. 4 "A study for ecological sustainability within media art ", ADADA (Asia Digital Art and Design Association), international conference, Waseda University, Japan “Artifacts at the event horizon”, Digital Design Research, VOL.8 NO.2

PROJECTS
2009.3-2011.2 Research project; Development of Artists’ programming tool and Intelligent Space for Media Art Exhibition based on Cultural Technology, supported by Korea Creative Contents Agency

LECTURES & TEACHINGS

2010.3~2010.12
Lecture at Seoul Institute of the Arts, Digital Art
Seoul, Korea

2009.3~2010.12
Lecture at Ewha Womans University, Fine art
Seoul, Korea

2009.9-2010.8
Lecture at Chu-Gye Art University, Printmaking
Seoul, Korea

2009.9-2010.8
Lecture at Kyung-Won University, Fine art
Seoul, Korea

2008.9~2009.12
Lecture at Kon-kuk University, Communication Design
Seoul, Korea

2008.3~2008.8
Lecture at Cathartic University, Digital Media
Seoul, Korea

2008.3~2008.8
Lecture at Mok-Won University, Cartoon & Animation
Seoul, Korea

2002.3~2005.8
Lecture at Mok-Won University, Cartoon & Animation
Seoul, Korea

GRANTS & AWARDS

2011
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Grant

2010
Seoul Art Space_Seogyo Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Grant 2009 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Grant

2008
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Grant

2008
Selected as the exhibition of the 2008 at Dam Gallery, Korea

2007
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Grant

2007
Selected as an artist of the 2007 at APT Gallery, London, UK

2005
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Grant

2005
Selected as an young artist of the 2005 at SEO Gallery, Korea

2004
Selected as the exhibition of the 2004 at Choheung Gallery, Korea

2001
Honors in the Major Field Award, Ewha Womans University

2000
Prize of Special Selection, Contemporary Printmaking Contest

1999
Prize of Special Selection, Korean Digital Art Fair

COLLECTIONS
Show me your face SN.1, interactive media installation, KBS Exhibition hall, Seoul, Korea
Show me your face SN.2, interactive media installation, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
Peoples, Silkscreen on the plastic plate, Seo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
BioHazard, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea Heteromorphic ID, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea

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