Lee Sang Won
Artist LEE SANG WON observes the lives of ordinary people. He tries to find specific patterns that repeat within it. Most of the stories in the paintings are constructed and drawn in a way that runs counter to these observations.
By depicting crowds moving or gathering in a specific place for a particular purpose through landscape paintings, the artist captures the various stories of life that contemporary people view and think about.
The 'WALKING MAN' series has captured the daily encounters of modern people through various media over the years and simplified them into animation, creating human characters as a motif. It has the meaning of being a starting point for expanding the artist's work in the future, but it is also expanding into a project that shows the possibility of new challenges that have yet to emerge.
"GOLDEN WALKING MAN," presented for the first time this time, is a three-dimensional work that simplifies the Walking shape with the motif of the character human (人) and consists of 12 pieces. Pure gold (24K) is one of the various materials used to create the 'WALKING MAN' series. This exhibition is also in the process of multiple experiments. The artist will continue to show that he focuses on the contemplation process of finding, experimenting, and visualizing a theme rather than showing various conceptual or formally completed works.
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
BFA, Painting, HONG-IK UNIVERSITY, KOREA
MFA, Painting, HONG-IK UNIVERSITY, KOREA
PH D, HONG-IK UNIVERSITY, KOREA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 THE ONE PIECE OF ART : GOLDEN WALKING MAN, ARTBN, SEOUL, KOREA
2022 Floating People, Btree Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 PeopleS, Wow Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Multitude, Dohing Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 In Patterns, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea
2019 The Panoramic, Dorossy Salon, Seoul, Korea
2018 All Over, Gallery 30, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Colors of the Crowd, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2016 Mono Gaze, Artertain, Seoul, Korea
2015 Lost Burgher, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2014 The Multiple, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea
2012 Space Color Movement, Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2011 Leisure & Crowd, Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
2010 Eye of Beholder, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Patterns of Life, The Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand
2007 The Resting Place, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 As ever, We are, Eoul Art Center, Daegu, Korea
2020 Spring Breeze Hwi-hwi-ho-ho, Daegu Shinsegae Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2020 Hoyoun reincarnation, Daedeok Culture Center, Daejeon, Korea
2019 New Summer Tour, Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung, Korea
2019Colors, a duet of lightness and darkness, Inyoung Gallery, Seoul
2019Sensation of Boundary, Artspace Iaa, Jeju, Korea
2018 Olympic Sculpture Project - Post 88, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 Seoul Focus-Design for Action, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 Gangwon, The Story, Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung, Korea
2018 Landscapes of Seoul, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Rediscovery of Colors, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
2016 SeMA Storage Show Case, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 The Flame of Seoul, 63 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 The Great Trivia, Space K, Daegu, Korea
2014 Parallax View, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2014 Water, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Man & People, GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Yeosu, Korea
2014 Neo Sansu, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2014 Generation, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Butterfly out of Eden, Fellini Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013 Sphere-Body-Landscape, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 Distances, Tenjinyama Culture Plaza, Okayama, Japan
2012 Space and View, Sky Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Seoul, City Exploration, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 From a Distance, Keep a Distance, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2010 Lifescape in Art, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
2010 Up and Comers, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
2010 Distances, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Variety, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2009 Look & Pick - Hello Urban Kids!, Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea
2009 Paradis Artificiel-Nanjido Project, Nanji Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Chronicle of Images, ARKO Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
SCREENING
2021 Memory of Multitude, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 AYAF Festival, ARKO Arts Theater, Seoul, Korea
2013 Mont-martre Contemporain, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2012 Okayama City Arts Festival, Okayama, Japan
2012 Gwangju Media Festival, 5.18 square, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Piri & Painting, National Gugak Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 SBS Tomorrow Festival, SBS, Seoul, Korea
2010 Project Oksang, Geumjwa Building, Seoul, Korea
2010 Patterns of Life, Platform Place, Seoul, Korea
2009 Run-Twin Set Video, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2018 residency- Youngeun Artist in residence, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea
2017 award- Sungkok Artist of Tomorrow, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 award- Korean Artist Project, The Korean Art Museum Association & Arts Council Korea
2013 residency- Youngeun Artist in residence, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea
2012 residency- Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2011 award- Sky Art Young Artist, Sky Art Museum, Korea
2011 award- SeMA Young Artist, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2010 residency- Red Gate Studio, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 award- ARKO Young Art Frontier, ARKO, Korea
2008 residency- Nanji Art Studio, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2008 residency- The Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand
2007 residency- Changdong National Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2007 award- Kumho Young Artist, Kumho Museum of Art, Korea
COLLECTIONS
Seoul Museum of Art
Art Bank of National Museum of Contemporary Art
Gyeongnam Art Museum
Sungkok Art Museum
Kumho Museum of Art
Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art
IFC Seoul, POSCO, Hanwha Resort, Daemyung Resort, LG Electronics