A Seoul-born contemporary artist whose practice moves between painting, installation and media, Lee Jin Hyu explores memory, history and the human will to cross boundaries. Lee graduated from Gachon University in Korea and earned a master's degree in painting in Madrid, Spain. His artistic lineage runs through the heart of Korean abstraction: he studied under Yun Hyong-keun, who was himself the student and son-in-law of Kim Whanki. Lee carries the spiritual legacy of this tradition forward, extending it into graffiti and hip-hop culture, the human body in motion, LED light, media and found objects. He is a professor in the Fine Art Department at Gachon University.
Lee's perspective is shaped by an international path, from Korea to Iraq to Spain. Questioning an art history centered on the United States and European countries, he favors a pluralist view of culture and history, approaching the past and present from a human rather than a national point of view. His early public projects, including memorial-park and cemetery works, explored how a society understands life, death and time.
Over four decades, Lee has exhibited widely across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States, including ARCO96 (Madrid), the Granada Biennale (1997), Art Stage Singapore (2012), KIAF Korea International Art Fair (2010), the New York Art Show (2011), and an exhibition marking 30 years of UAE–Korea diplomatic relations (2010). In the United States, he has presented a special invitational at the LA Art Show and a solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
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