Born in Seoul, South Korea
Currently based in New Haven, CT, USA
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Fantasma: Restless Silence | 몽환서: 소란한 공백, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2025 Interstice, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2024 Small: with John Keefer, iiiiotae_Project Space, New Haven, CT
2023 INDEFINITE HISTORIES: with Steven DiGiovanni, New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2022 Red Scene, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Underground in SPACE), Seoul, Korea
2013 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Threshold, Doosan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Reflective Surface, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2006 Mash-Up, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2006 LEE Jihyun Solo Show, ARARIO GALLERY BEIJING, Beijing, China
2005 Going out, do Art Gallery / Gallery Hyundai_Window Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 Confusion of Daily Space, Art Space HUE, Seoul, Korea
2003 the 1st Solo Show, Gallery ARTINUS, Seoul, Korea
2001 Lee Jihyun & Lim Youngjoo Duo Show, Gallery Hello Art, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Aldrich Decennial: I Am What Is Around Me, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2024 Glorious Index, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2024 Deserve What You Dream, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
2024 Landing Point, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2024 Boarders at Borders, Spring Break Art Show LA with ECOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Blocks and Bridges: Worldbuilding in New Haven, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2023 Art Drops: A Sense of Place: Organized by Haven Arts Park, Havenly Café, New Haven, CT
2021 Post Archive Faction (PAF): Final Cut, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2020 Everything is Different Now, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2020 Dancing Queen, ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN, Cheonan, Korea
2018 Tactics, Works, Terms, Forms, Statements, 371 Broadway, New York, NY
2018 The Greatest Show on Earth, Slideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Art. Letter. Home: Artist Manuscript, Main Gallery at CAA, Hangzhou, China
2017 AAAAAAAAAAAAH!, Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Need for My Care, Waterfall Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Artists with Arario_Part 2, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2011 Paranoid Scene, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
2010 Artists with Arario_Part 1, ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN, Cheonan, Korea
2009 Document Culture: Tradition and Present, MoA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2009 Double Fantasy-Korean Contemporary Art, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2009 Young Korean Artist 1 – Space on Surface, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Another Worlds, ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN, Cheonan, Korea
2006 The Way of Viewing Objects, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005 Vision & Perspective, Busan Museum of Modern Arts, Busan, Korea
2005 My Private Gallery, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Seoul Exhibition of Young Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005 The 3rd_ Preview, Alternative Space_Team Preview, Seoul, Korea
2005 The Space of ‘SUM’, Gallery Sun, Seoul, Korea
2004 Scent of Woon Jung, Sungshin Women's Univ. Museum, Seoul, Korea
2004 Project 139: The Garden of Forking Paths, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2003 Collected Painting, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2003 The 9th Contemporary Expressions of Korean Young Artist, Gwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003 Selected Name Card, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2002 Happy Flying Pig Metro, City Metro Line 5, Seoul, Korea
2002 Open a Refrigerator, Ehwa Woman's Univ., Seoul, Korea
2002 The 5th Seoul Fringe Festival, Seoul, Korea
2001 The 4th Indie Festival, Club Super Fly, Seoul, Korea
2001 Water, Seoul Museum of Modern Arts, Seoul, Korea
2001 China Robot Mask, Dong-duk Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 The 2nd Working in The Gallery, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2000 Seven Person's Turmoil, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 l'Amour Aveugle, Sempio factory, Seoul, Korea
2000 Virus-the 3rd Indie Festival, Seoul, Korea
2000 The 1st Working in the Gallery, Hanseo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
RESIDENCY
2012 Doosan Artist Residency, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2003 MFA Painting, Sungshin Women's University Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
2001 BFA Painting, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
· Fantasma: Restless Silence | 몽환서: 소란한 공백, exhibition catalog published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, July 1–August 15, 2026. ARARIO GALLERY, 84 pp. ISBN 979-11-86399-78-1 03660. [PDF]
· Interview: “Multiverse of Memory | 기억의 멀티버스” by LEE Sunghwi, Art in Culture, Artist Inside, September 2026, pp. 140–145. (print)]
· Feature: “Painting Transforms Memory into Matter: LEE Jihyun’s Solo Exhibition, Fantasma: Restless Silence” by A Team, K-ARTNOW, July 14, 2026. (online)
· Feature: “중세 시간 위에 나를 그리니 공백의 세월도 작품이 됐다 | Painting Myself onto Medieval Time, Even the Years of Absence Became Art” by LEE Hyanghwi, Maeil Business Newspaper, July 22, 2026.
· Exhibition Review: “기억의 중첩과 경계 너머의 ‘그것’…| Layered Memories and ‘That’ Beyond the Boundary: Solo Exhibitions by LEE Jihyun and LIM Subeom” by KIM Hyunkyung, The Herald Business, July 1, 2026.
· Exhibition Review: The Past Is Reworked In “Indefinite Histories” by Kepp Singer, Dec 1st, 2023, Arts Council Greater New Haven
· Exhibition Review: Artist Build Worlds At CAW Show by Brian Slattery, Oct 4th , 2023, New Haven Independent
· Exhibition Review: “Blocks And Bridges” Binds Past, Present, and Future by Kapp Singer, Oct 4th, 2023, Arts Council Greater New Haven
· Exhibition Review: “Red Psychological Atlas” by JEONG Hyeon, Art in Culture, Focus, June 2022, pp. 72–75. (print)
· Interview: “The Beautiful Moment, Dividing Time Horizontally and Vertically” by LEE Jung, PUBLIC ART, Vol. 124, January 2017, South Korea. (print)
· Threshold: Jihyun Lee, exhibition catalog published on the occasion of the solo exhibitions at Doosan Gallery, Seoul, March 7–April 4, 2013, and New York, October 11–November 3, 2012. ISBN 978-89-92262-86-6 96650.
· Reflective Surface: Jihyun Lee, exhibition catalog published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, May 15–June 12, 2008. ISBN 978-89-92262-43-9 93650.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Government Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Korea
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Korea
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
Byucksan Engineering, Korea
GS Energy, Korea
ARARIO Collection, Korea