Jae Hoon Lee
"For the past ten years I have lived in different countries, including Korea, America, and New Zealand. When I immigrated to New Zealand I began documenting my daily life by using a flatbed scanner to record the changes in my skin. From this point, the body became a fundamental element to all my artworks and I have always attempted to project a sense of the body in different times and spaces.
I believe I am leading a nomadic existence through relocating myself between different cultural territories. In order to assemble an image bank that refers to my experience as a cultural wanderer, I have mainly been collecting source materials in New Zealand, Korea and other countries I have recently visited.
My daily collecting habit has so far expanded to also include natural elements such as leaves, urban scenes, daily objects and banal accidents (random situations and happenings on the street etc)." Artist Statement
2018
Wanderer (solo), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
In the mood for elsewhere (solo), Ivan Anthony, Auckland
2017
Internal Landscape (solo), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
Liquidoscope (solo), Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2016
Blue Screen (solo), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
2015
Spring 1883 (w/ Robert Heald Gallery), The Establishment, Sydney
Stranger in Strange Land (solo) Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Omnipresent (solo), Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
2014
Saturate Every Atom, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland
mountainseacloud (solo), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
2013
Untouched as Unknown (solo), Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
Among the Machines, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
2012
Antarctic Fever (solo), Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland
Day and night and day, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
2011
Code Unknown (solo), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
El Barroco de Aotearoa, MUCA Roma Gallery, Mexico City
2010
Nomad (solo), Gallery, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
The Springboard Series; Annapurna, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
Present Tense, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Hit the Wall, The New Dowse, Wellington
Education
2012 Graduated Doctorate of Fine Art, University of Auckland
2001 Graduated MFA, University of Auckland
1999-2000 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
1998 Graduated BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
1996-1998 San Francisco Art Institute