BIO
Minwoo Lee, born in South Korea, is an artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada. Lee makes photographs, video installations, and site-specific research on the hierarchical structure between mechanisms of vision, cultural perceptions, and sociopolitical strata through how images are rendered.
Lee has exhibited at the Seoul Museum of Art, Incheon Art Platform, De Appel, Katzman Contemporary, McDonald Stewart Art Centre, Changwon Biennale, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and numerous institutions, with city-wide installation work of 35°47’5” N 139°53’55” E at the city of Matsudo Japan and curatorial project at the Dali Contemporary Art Centre.
He is also a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Ontario Artist Fund, with a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Seoul Museum of Art, Paradise AIR, Dali Art Factory, and Incheon Art Platform.
Degrees
2015 M.F.A., University of Guelph, Studio Art, Guelph, Canada
2013 B.F.A., Alberta University of the Arts, Photography, Calgary, Canada
2012 Mobility, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Photography, Toronto, Canada
2011 Mobility, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Photography, Chicago, United States
Exhibitions
2023 Breadcrumbs…, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity: Project Space, Canada
2023 Gentrification of Euljiro, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Escaping Demarcation, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, South Korea
2021 Burning Column, Alternative Space Dum, Incheon, South Korea
2019 Space Hot Bed: Alternative Space, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Overlap, YYZ Collective, Digital Screening with collective Not-Good-Korean
2018 Sequence, Alternative Space D, Incheon, South Korea
2018 Holo Solo, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2018 FYI: Public Intervention 2, 15 Newbury, Boston, United States
2017 035°47’50”N 139°53’55”, Sun Sun Garden with Paradise AIR, Matsudo, Japan
2017 Monsoon, Ragama Basilica, Outdoor screening, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2017 Surface Nexus, Dali Contemporary Art Center, Dali, China
2016 Wet Paint, Incheon Art Platform, Space B, Incheon, South Korea
2016 Viscous Freefall, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
2016 Open-Hide-Close-Find, Cabinet ONON, Alternative Space, Gwacheon, South Korea
2015 Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2015 Moving Spotlight, McDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada
2015 Noprrressurrre, Capacity 3 Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2015 New School of Art, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2014 So it Goes, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2013 Same Difference, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2013 Reductive Expanse, Art Central, Calgary, Canada
2013 Walk in the Park, Creig Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2013 Untitled, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Research Grants
2023 Ontario Artists Fund & Barbara and John Poole Memorial Endowment
2023 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation
2021 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation Projects
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad
Residency
2023 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity: Summer BAiR, Banff, Canada
2018 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Paradise AIR: Long-Stay, Matsudo, Japan
2017 ANIS: Independent Research Residency, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2017 Dali Art Factory, Dali, China
2016 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea
Member & Association
2023 SQN Collective, Co-founder, Toronto, Canada
2020 Canadian Artists' Representation, Member, Canada
Appointments
2021- Lecturer, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough
2021- Lecturer, School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
2019 Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design University
Interviews & Reviews
2019 Dichotomy and Indifference, Not-Good-Korean collective, Gallery Catalogue, 2019.
2018 Kim, Jihoon. Multifaceted Tension between Stillness and Movement, Seoul Museum of Art, 2018: 182- 185, 300.
2017 Chaumont, Marie. Minwoo Lee at Incheon Art Platform, Speak Art: Interview, Digital, 2017.
2017 Hasegawa, Arata. Two Artistic Tours: Letting Reality Catch up with the Speed of your Journey, Matchizu Creative Co., Ltd., 2017: 29-35.
2017 Fukuo, Takumi. An Object that is a Blink: On Minwoo Lee’s 035°47’50”N 139°53’55”,
Paradise AIR Publication, 2017: 57-62.
2017 Minwoo Lee Interview, Paradise AIR Publication, 2017: 67-73.
2017 Zhang, Eve. Surface Nexus: Essay, Dali Art Factory Publication, 2017: 5-32.
2016 Lee, Young-Ri. Minwoo Lee: IAP Interview Collection, Incheon Art Platform Publication, 2016: 169-180.
2016 Lee, Young-Ri. Photographs that you didn’t know, Incheon Cultural Publication, Digital,
2016 Thou Shalt have no other ‘GodsLogics’ before me, Not-Good-Korean Collective Catalogue,
2016 Kim, Inseon. Surface Tension: Roundtable essay, Cabinet ONON Gallery Catalogue, 2016.
2015 Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary: Gallery Catalogue, 2015.