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DONGI LEE Selected biography
From Seoul. Korea.
Education
M.F.A in Painting, Graduate School, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea B.F.A in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Exhibitions
2020 LeeDongi : Atomaus and Friends, Sheraton Seoul Palace Gangnam Hotel, Seoul, Korea 2019 LeeDongi : 1993 ~ 2014, Back to the Future, PIBI GALLERY, Seoul 2018 LeeDongi : 2015 ~ 2018, PIBI GALLERY, Seoul Words, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea Hashtag, Handok Museum of Medicine and pharmacy, Eumsung, Korea 2017 Dongi Lee Unplugged, Gallery 2 Jungsun Nongwon, Jeju, Korea Dongi Lee, CL Art, Seoul, Korea 2016 Abyss, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea 2014 Zero Gravity, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea 2013 Don't Look Back in Anger, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea Dongi Lee, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2012 Garden of Uncertainty, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea Bittersweet, Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Rm.527), Hong Kong 2011 Role Playing Game, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Bittersweet, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea Bubbles, Goozee Gallery, Daegu, Korea 2009 Double Vision, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany 2008 Bubbles, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dongi Lee, Keumsan Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Bubbles, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea Double Vision, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea 2007 Atomaus, Gallery Mook of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 2006 Smoking, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2005 Dongi Lee, Kim Jae-Sun Gallery, Busan, Korea 2003 Crash, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2002 Dongi Lee, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
NYBGALLERY.COM 2001 The Adventures of Atomaus, Gallery Dong Dong, Seoul, Korea 1999 Money Honey, Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea Money Honey, Gallery Grimsi, Suwon, Korea Money Honey, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea 1998 Underworld, Kaywon Gallery, Uiwang, Korea 1995 Program, Hongik University Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Man & Woman 1988-1995, Gallerie de Seoul, Seoul, Korea 1993 1st solo exhibition, Gallery On, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2020 To the Moon with Snoopy, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju Painting, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea 2019 To the Moon with Snoopy, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul Pop Corn, DAEGU Art Museum, Deagu, Korea
2018 Sky Earth People - SEMA New Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Object of the Light: Highlight of Korean Contemporary Art, Pyeongchang Olympic Culture ICT Pavilion, Pyeongchang, Korea Double Vision, DTC Gallery D2, Daejeon, Korea 2017 Winter Festival, Coex, Seoul, Korea On View, Baahng Gallery, New York, USA Media Ecstasy, Art Museum KNU, Daegu, Korea The Portrait of Youth, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, Korea This Is Contemporary Art Museum: Everyone Is an Artist, Everything Is Art, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea With Companions, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Crack in the Concrete, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 2016 X: Korean Art in the Nineties, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 30 Designers’ City Project: Seoul, 751 D-Park, Beijing, China Very Addictive - Re extention of Aesthetics in Daily Life, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China Atelier Story, Hangaram Museum in Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
Be My Love, Avenuel Art Hall, Seoul/ Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea Group Show, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France 2015 Convergence Between Consumer Goods and Art, KOTRA Open Gallery, Seoul, Korea Fermented Soul, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA Do the Right Thing, Gallery Seongbuk, Seoul, Korea Uproarious, Heated, Inundated, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Hur Young-Man: Secret of the Creation, Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea Using the Eye in Order to See, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2014 Spectrum-Spectrum, Plateau, Seoul, Korea Dongi Lee + Hyunsoo Kim, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea Scarlet Innocence: Prologue of Desire, Daelim Museum project space Bin-Zip, Seoul, Korea Korea Tomorrow, DDP - Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea
NYBGALLERY.COM Jump for the Dreams, Uijeongbu Arts Center, Uijeongbu, Korea Love:100, Zippo Museum, Jeju Island, Korea Good Morning, Mr.Robot, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Be My Love, Lotte Gallery, Seoul/ Lotte Gallery, Busan, Korea Graphic Novel, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2013 Animamix Biennale, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea Korean Art from the Museum Collection: Grand Narrative II, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea The Brilliant Art Project: Dream Society, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea Collection, Hagkgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea Black Square, Gallery 101, Seoul, Korea 2012 Newly, Daily, Truly, POSCO Building, Seoul, Korea Art of Painting, Hagkgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea Dialogs-Korean Contemporary Art, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Future Pass, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan Love between Dog and Human, Gallery Artside, Seoul, Korea Diagnostic Mind: Catastrophe, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea Cartoon: Beyond the Frame, Gallery Viva, Hongcheon/ Chungkang Museum, Icheon, Korea Cheerful Comics, Pleasant Art, Lotte Gallery, Seoul/ Lotte Gallery, Paju, Korea Seeing the World through the Cartoons, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Art in Schoolbook, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea High Times, Hard Times, Interalia, Seoul, Korea 2011 Future Pass, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands Korean Rhapsody, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea New Artists, Gallery Sho Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan Future Pass: from Asia to the World - Collateral Event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy Seekers of the Future of Memories, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Henkel InnoART Project, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea Lee Dongi and Janson Rapisarda: Street Attack, Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul, Korea
2010 Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea INDAF (Inchon International Digital Art Festival)- Mobile Vision: Unbounded Aesthetics, Tomorrow City, Inchon, Korea Korean Avant-Garde Drawing, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Coexistence Ⅱ, Gallery Is, Seoul, Korea Rambling Criticism, Gallery Holston, Daejon, Korea Pop Art, Gimhae Arts and Sports Center, Gimhae, Korea Artists' Production, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Busan Motor Show, BEXCO, Busan, Korea 2009 Pieces of My Puzzle, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany The World, a Cartoon, Willem Kerseboom Modern & Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands Enliven - In Between Realities and Fiction: Animamix Biennal 2009-2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China Metaphors of Un/Real-Animamix Biennial 2009-2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
NYBGALLERY.COM Logic of Sensibility, Interalia, Seoul, Korea Museum2, Korea Art Gallery, Busan, Korea Monuments in Time, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China Lead in Korea II, With Space Gallery, Beijing, China Korean Pop Art, Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2008 B-Side, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Today's Korean Art: The World of Expression, Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea Beyond Cartoon: Asian Contemporary Art Group Show, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China Art and Capital, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea Art at Home: Wonderful Life, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea Love Love, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul, Korea 2007 3L4D of Ultra-new Vision of 21st Century Animamix Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Contemporary Korean Art: Wonderland, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China ANIMANGA, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France
Think Green, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul, Korea 2006 The Power of Imagination, Korea University Museum, Seoul, Korea Fiction@Love, Shanghai Museum of contemporary Art, Shanghai, China The Originals, Neo-Aesthetics of Animamix: 2nd Annual Chinese International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Hangzhou Peace International Convention & Exhibition Center, Hangzhou, China Living Furniture, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea Who Are You?, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Portrait of the juvenile mind, Garam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Who's Who?, Hyundai Department Gallery, Seoul, Korea Play the Rainbow, Bambini Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Wake Up Andy Warhol, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul, Korea Memory of the Books, Gallery Book house, Paju, Korea 2005 Encounters with Modernism: Highlights from the Stedelijk Museum and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, National Museum of Art Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea Pop Pop Pop, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Art from North and South Korea, Gallery Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands Packed/ Unpacked II: Alice in My Heart, Ssamzie Art Warehouse, Paju, Korea First Peak, Enthenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland Animate, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan The Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia AniMate, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Imaginary Play, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea Famous Artists for Art Education, Dong-A Museum/ KBS Museum, Daegu, Korea South Man North Woman, Gana Forum Space, Seoul, Korea Open Art for the Kids, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Buddy Bear Festival, Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea Art Toon, Toon Art, Gail Art Museum, Gapyong, Korea
NYBGALLERY.COM 2004 Time Travel with Art Works, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Fiction@Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Beauty & the Beast, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul, Korea New Collection 2004, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Feel, Enjoy & Shop, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea Dream Butterfly, Seoul-Land Event Hall, Gwacheon, Korea Dreaming Butterfly, UNICEF Hall, Gapyong, Korea Funny Sculpture! Funny Painting, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea Loop Beside the Railway, Kunpo, Korea Cool Beauty, Gallery Noam, Seoul, Korea Image Utopia, Hanjeon Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea Christmas in Rock, Gallery Demain, Seoul, Korea Cutting Edge, Seoul Auction House, Seoul, Korea 2003 Five, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Taegeukgi, Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea Comics in Art, Art in Comics, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea Naming Card, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea Hybrid Theory, Gallery Gong, Seoul, Korea Plastic, Art Park, Seoul, Korea Family Entertainment, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Prince · Princess, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea Moist Window, TTL Zone, Seoul/Bucheon/Busan/Ulsan/Cheongju/Jeonju 2002 East of the Yellow Sea, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China Coming to Our House, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea 11&11 Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 66 Artists Helping Contemporary Literature, Gallery La Mer, Seoul, Korea Gana Atelier Open Studio, Gana Atelier, Seoul, Korea Kids with Doggies Went to Stationery Shop, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Our Face, Jebiwool Museum, Kwachon, Korea Breath of Air, Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea Blue, Gallery La Mer, Seoul, Korea Dog, Gallery Savinna, Seoul, Korea Stay on the Crossroad, Cheongnyangni Rail way Station, Seoul, Korea Gwanghwamun Comicscope, Gwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2001 Trace & Atomaus, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands Art Spectrum 2001, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Representation of the Representation, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Relay Relay, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Milky Crown, Club 108, Seoul, Korea Looking for the Works in the Works, Gallery Savina, Seoul, Korea Indie Art Festival, Hongdae, Seoul, Korea
NYBGALLERY.COM SICAF-Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, KOEX, Seoul, Korea 81-3 Culture Park, Sejong Center for the PerformingArts, Seoul, Korea Wind Wind Wind, Kwanghwamoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea Sensibility in December, Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea Happy Christmas, Posco Galley, Seoul, Korea 2000 Korean Con-Temporary: Korean Super Expo, Western Atrium, Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan Media City Seoul 2000: Subway Project, Ulchiro-3ga Subway Station, Seoul, Korea Expression of the Time: Eyes and Hands, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Enfant Terrible, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea T-Shirts, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea Change, Lee Jung Hee Gallery, Seoul, Korea Cool Summer, Samsung Plaza Gallery, Pundang, Korea Revival, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul Animation in Art, Seoul Auction Gallery, Seoul
Talking Eyes, On and Off Theater, Seoul, Korea Compellation of Art - from Everyday Life, online exhibition (wisegallery.co.kr), Seoul Art for Good Brains, Gallery Savina, Seoul, Korea Breaking the Stress, Myoung-Dong Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Indie Video Festival, Cine Cube, Seoul, Korea 1999 Comics-Parking Lot Project I, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea Demonstration Bus, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Films in Art : Projection & Reflection, Busan City Museum, Pusan, Korea Visual Culture - Transition of the Century, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Korean Contemporary art -Trends in the 90’s, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Seoul, Korea Hobu Hohyoung, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Oliver Grim, Jeong Hwa Choi, Dongi Lee, Sal Bar, Seoul, Korea Character Message, Gallery Wooduk, Seoul, Korea Relay, Open Studio Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
Pre-Iconotext Exhibition, Chongro Gallery, Seoul, Korea Festival Young Space May, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea Indie Art Festival, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea For Mr.Kim, Insadong Street, Seoul, Korea Demonstration Bus - Review, Artinus Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Cross, Dongsoong Cinematheque, Seoul, Korea 300 Postcards, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea 1998 Report Report 0.1. Century New Manifesto, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea Instant Human, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea Preview 1999 - Seonam Art Academy, Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea Frame Is Better than Picture, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Media and Painting, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Hand Made Text, Wonseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
NYBGALLERY.COM Repitition + Diviation, Seohyon Kim’s Outlet, Bundang, Korea The 20th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea Korea Underground Comics Festival, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1997 300 Space, Seonam Art Center, Seoul / Dam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Everyday Life, Memory and History - 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju City Museum, Gwangju, Korea Gwangju-Exploring the Labyrinth, Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea The 19th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Dukwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 1996 View-Finder Canvas, Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea TV, Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea Art at Home, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea Cinderella Report, Dukwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Arcos da Lapa, Public Projection Organized by Laboratoire (Grenoble), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil D-22 / Politics without Politics, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea Lipsinc and Adlib, Space SADI, Seoul, Korea
Gig, online exhibition, Seoul Dream, Taste, Sal Bar, Seoul 1995 Team Spirit, Dukwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Art, Convention, Reflection, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Ssack, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea Propaganda - D.M.Z., Gallery Kwanhoon, Seoul, Korea New Media, Karam Gallery, Seoul, Korea S.O.S., Samjeong Art Space, Seoul, Korea Cinema in Gallery, Noksaek Gallery, Seoul People at Hongdae, Project Bar Gompangi, Seoul Opening Exhibition, Moxy Gallery, Seoul The 17th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Baik-Ak Yewon Gallery, Seoul 1994 Remote Control, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea Artist and Environment, Dukwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Pismo-Obras, International Artists Center/ Art and Business Club Gallery / Gallery Akme / Ksiegarni Naukowej Book Shop, Poznan, Poland S.O.S.- Social Operating System, Batangol Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1993 Sensibility and Artistry of New Generation, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Sign, Language, Book, Art, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The 15th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Kyongin Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1992 92’ Groping Youth, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Nature, Human and Art, Sonahmoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea Plastic Flower, Sagak Gallery, Seoul, Korea The 14th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea 1991 Off & On, Sonahmoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea New Kids in Seoul, Danseong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Sonnenschein, Karl Stroble Gallery, Vienna, Austria
NYBGALLERY.COM Expansion of Consciousness, Kyoung-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea Hong-Ik M.F.A., Batanggol Gallery, Seoul Captured Situation, Gallery Kwanhoon, Seoul, Korea The 13th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea 1990 3 Great Artists, Gallery Soo, Seoul, Korea Expansion of Visual Space, Chongnam Gallery, Seoul, Korea Déjà vu, Samjeong Gallery, Seoul, Korea C-516, Sonahmoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea The 12th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Baik-Ak Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1989 The 15th Independent, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea The 11th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Arab Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1988 The 10th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Arab Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1987 The 9th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Baik-Sang Memorial Center, Seoul, Korea 1986 The 8th Ye-Hong Exhibition, Baik-Sang Memorial Center, Seoul, Korea
Residency
2010 Ku Art Resicency, Beijing, China 2006 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 2002-03 Gana Atelier, Seoul, Korea
Award
2008 nominated for The 2008 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Collection
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Seoul Museum of art, Seoul, Korea
ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Maeil Dairies Co., Seoul, Korea Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea Seonam Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea Wheelock Property, Hong Kong UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taipei Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea NHN Corporation, Seongnam, Korea Ssangyong Motor Company, Pyeongtaek, Korea Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
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