Jungjin Lee

For me the real beauty in photography is not the end product but the process. My images are a means of metaphorical expression: not a representation of the actual world, or a reconstitution of visual beauty, but a basis for fundamental meditation. The photographs represent thoughts incapable of being expressed in words, asserted, or emphasized as a single argument. My THING series, unlike my past works, approached me from objects which were near and familiar to me. The familiarity means a waiting and a private communication between the thing and myself. And that familiarity turns into an estrangement through the vacating of thoughts. The act of vacating, like the blank spaces of my work, makes the thing dream of itself as well as me.

EDUCATION

1991   MFA, New York University, New York, NY
1984   BFA, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
FotoFest, Houston
FNAC, Paris, France
Sprint Corporation, KA
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
Hanlim Museum, Taejon, Korea
Kumho Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea
Korea Development Bank, Seoul, Korea

Comtemporary Asian Art Jungjin Lee

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