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

CIRCUIT Resources

Essay by Brendan Jon Philip 

Selected Exhibitions

2021
Rational Geography, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington

2020
Tilting the Horizons, Visions, Auckland

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, Australia
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