Jennifer Lee

National Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2026). Working across figuration and abstraction, she explores light, memory, and the invisible traces of existence through oil painting and UV-reactive pigments.

The Language of Light and Memory :
Everything that exists leaves a trace. My practice begins with the belief that light carries those traces, preserving fragments of memory, emotion, and presence beyond what can be immediately seen.
My work has developed through two parallel paths: figuration and abstraction. Flowers, landscapes, and living forms become vessels for memory, while my abstract works explore light, color, time, fragmentation, and entropy. Though these visual languages differ, they are connected by the same question: what remains when a moment, a memory, or a presence disappears from sight?
Recently, these two paths have begun to converge in my Crystal Flower series. While closely observing flowers, I began to recognize in the shapes of petals and the intricate networks of veins structures that echoed the crystalline forms I had explored in earlier works. This discovery opened a space where figuration and abstraction could coexist within a single image. Crystal Flower has bec...

B.A. Industrial Design, Gangwon National University (1999)
Qualified Design Teacher, Art Psychotherapist, Reading Tutor

-Duo exhibition: “SOIL AND LIGHT: Soil Holds Time, and Light Awakens Memory” with Do Joong Cho at Kyungin Museum of Fine Art, Seoul (2026)
-Group exhibition: Invitational Exhibition “California Life, Seoul Life” at E. K. Art Gallery, Los Angeles (2026)
-Group exhibition: Invitational Exhibition “Contemporary Artists of Our Time” at M Art Center, Kyungin Museum, Seoul (2026)
-La Biennale di Venezia: Tanzania National Pavilion " Minor Frequencies" at Supernova, Venice (2026)
-Group exhibition: Invitational Exhibition “Perspectives of Gangneung” at Cheongpung Gallery (2026)
-Group exhibition: Invitational Exhibition “Connected Perspectives in 2026: Takeoff” at Gangneung Art Center (2026)
- Group exhibition: Invitational Exhibition at Shin Saimdang Art Competition, Gangneung Art Center (2025)
- Biennale: XV Florence Biennale at Fortezza da Basso, Firenze (2025)
- Group exhibition: Gangneung Art Association Exhibition at Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung (2025)
- Group exhibition: Gangwon Art Association Exhibition at Taebaek Culture & Arts Center, Taebaek (2025)
- Group exhibition: “Identity”, K-art International & MUSA International, Insa Art Center, Seoul (2025)
- Group exhibition: “Untitled”, Siwon Art Gallery, M Art Center, ...