Lee Yimchoon

Yim Choon Lee’s painting “Black Hole” elicits visions of movement, eruptive, confusing, and dizzying. These feelings of movement gravitate the viewer into a wondrous cosmos of twisting layers and colors, drawing feelings of awe and questions of how its creation is possible.

Yim has invented a new technique incorporating sculpture and painting called “Tearing Art”. This technique offers a three-dimensional experience, creating a desire to reach out and touch the various textures within.
Born in Goseong, Korea in 1965, Yim inherited three-generations of Korean traditional bamboo and paper art.

At age 5, he began to learn these skills from his father. Together, they traveled throughout the mountains in Korea to collect the bamboo for his father’s bamboo art. The bamboo art has a major impact on Yim’s paintings.

When Yim was 9 years old, he went to a bamboo mountainside with his father. Waiting through a sudden rainstorm, Yim watched the swaying of the bamboo leaves in the wind. With the background of the mountains, Yim saw a wave of colors that rocked through the entire mountainside. This illusion was the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen. He wanted to transform this phenomenon to a canvas.

Ever since, ...

1989 Civil Engineering, Gyeongsang National University
1990 Chinese language study, Taipei University

2019 Solo Exhibition, Wind Hill, Geoje, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Geoje Police Station, Korea
2018 scope Miami, USA
2017 Solo Exhibition, Geoje Culture and Arts Center, Korea
2016 Solo Exhibition, Busan City Hall, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Jeong Jun-ho Gallery, Seomyeon, Busan, Korea
Busan International Art Show, Korea
2015 Solo Exhibition, Geoje City Hall, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gangnam Daon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Dussol Gallery, Busan, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Haeundae Ocean Gallery, Busan, Korea
Cheongju International Craft Biennale International Art Fair, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Goun Gallery, Changwon, Korea
2014 Solo Exhibition, Gangnam Global Village Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Busan International Art Fair
2013 Busan Art Show
Kyungnam Changwon International Art Fair
Solo Exhibition, Tongyeong Police Station, Korea
2012 Solo Exhibition, Suwon Art Gallery, Korea
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Violet, Korea
Solo Exhibition, International Art ...