About Kyungsoo Lee

Kyungsoo Lee was born, raised and educated in Seoul, Korea. She began painting as a small child, displaying a precocious talent for art and, for painting in particular. She continues today, many years later as she has always done: painting. After receiving her MFA from the Graduate School of Sungshin Women’s University in 1983 and then moving with her family to California in 1984. She is among the first generation of artists to be fully trained in a combination of oriental and western European aesthetics. She approaches her canvas with apparently little of no preconceived notion of what will occur. She has the disciplined ability to quiet the verbal, analytical part of her mind and allow that silent creative half of the brain to dominate. Her painting is a process of discovery, evolving from the repetition of gestures and the layering of color over color. Her perceptive color sense lends strength to the delicate line and soft tones of her imaginary natural abstractions and inner landscapes. Kyungsoo Lee was named “Artist of the Month” and given her first major solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea in 1989. Additionally, she has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the United States, Seoul, and Europe. In 1992, she was awarded the Encouragement Public Award given by the French government to an outstanding artist. Her paintings are found in collections are around the world; collections of museums, corporations, and individuals. Her life has been a journey, and the only constant in her life is painting. She has achieved a facility to speak eloquently with the line and colors to speak poetry without words to those who are receptive. Painting is her true blue friend.

ARTIST’S RESUME

KYUNGSOO LEE

24271 Palomino Dr. Menifee, CA 92584 Tel 714-673-1995

E-mail : [email protected]

Education

1985 Study in Department of Fine Arts, California State University of Los Angeles

1983 MFA Graduate School of Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Oil Painting)

1981 BA Department of Fine Arts, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Oil Painting)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “Aloha Kauai” lee&ee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022 Art San Diego 2022, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

2019 The Other Art Fair, The Reaf, Los Angeles, CA

2019 “Journey” lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 KIAF Art Seoul 2019, Coex Eshibition Hall, Seoul, Korea

2016 “Freedom” lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014 “My Heart is a Hummingbird” lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Invited Artist/ Stanford University, CA

2011 Nature’s Treasure” lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009 “ The Visions of Hawaii” P.S. Zask Gallery, RPV, CA

2008 lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2005 Kauai Art Museum, Lihue, Hawaii

2005 lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2001 Tustin Renaissance Gallery, Tustin, California

1999 Oliver Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California

1998 “Colors in Nature” Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA

1998 Tustin Renaissance Gallery, Tustin, California

1997 “New Paingtnigs” Tustin Renaissance Gallery, Tustin, CA

1996 Yuna Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1995 Connaisseur Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1992 Andrew- Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1989 Invitational exhibition as “An Artist of the Month, 1989"

The National Museum of Contemporary of Art, Seoul, Korea

1988 Koreatown Plaza, Los Angeles, California

1984 The Moyal Recreation Center of Arts & Crafts, Seoul, Korea

1984 Suk Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1982 Suk Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2024 “ Our Story IS…..” lee & lee Gallery, CA

2021 “Heart & Hand” lee & lee Gallery, CA

2021 “Covid 19 Beyond the Time” lee & lee Gallery, CA

2013 “Small Works Big Art” lee&lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2009 “His & Hers” lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2004 Art Kauai, Kukui Grove Exhibition Hall, Lihue, Hawaii

2003 “Show #1", lee & lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000 Tustin Renaissance Gallery, Tustin, CA

1996 Tustin Renaissance Gallery, Tustin, CA

1996 Gordon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996 Fund Raising for the elderly in need, John & Joe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995 “Beyond the Eternal”, Gallery Eden, Hacienda Higts, California(two person show)

1995 “Solitude”, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

1995 “New Perspective”. Soho Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (three person show)

1995 “Spiritual Space” Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA (two person show)

1994 “California Meets New York”, Haenah-Kent Gallery, Soho, NewYork

1993 Art Graphique Festival, Sony Tower, Osaka, Japan

1993 “Beams of Light” Wirtz Gallery, Miami, Florida

1993 Grand Prix de Paris, Salon de Vieux Colombier, City Hall, Paris, France

1991-4 Grand Prix D’Aquitaine, the Commanderie D’unet Museum, Bordeaux, France

1991 “Light as Air”, Contemporary Images Gallery, Ventura, CA

1991 Coco Bien Object D’art, Laguna Beach, CA

1990-3 Grand Prix France International, the Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France

1989 Exhibition of recent works by 15 L.A. artists, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

1989 Three-person show (Karen Licher, Janet Mackaig), L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, California

1987 “Salon Des Independents”, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985-96 Group exhibition of the Korean Artist Association of Southern California,

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

1985 Two-person show, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

1984 Korean Women Artists Association Group Show The Korean National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea

1981-3 Specially selected by the Art Competition of Gusang, The Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1981 Entry to Korean National Art Competition, Seoul, Korea

Honors and Awards

2004 Honorary Mention award, Kauai Society of Artists, Kauai, Hawaii

1993 Certificate of Festival International D’osaka, Japan

1993 Certificate of Appreciation , the City of Miami, Florida

1992 Encouragement Public, Paris, France

1991 Grand Prix de Paris International, Paris, France Grand Prix d’Aquitaine International, Bordeaux, France

1984 Crafts Award, the Moyer Art & Crafts Center, Seoul, Korea

1981-3 Entry to the Art Competition of Gusang, Seoul, Korea

1981 Entry to Korean National Art Competition, Seoul, Korea

Permanent Collections

The National Museum of Contemporary of Art, Seoul, Korea

Musee de la Commanderie D’unet, Bordeaux, France

Kauai Community College, Kauai, Hawaii

The Korean Central Daily, Los Angeles, California

Ericsson Telephone & Radio Company, Stockholm, Sweden

The Shin Chon Jee Art Museum, Cheju, Korea

Kim’s Club Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Numerous Private Collections

Teaching & Curatorial Experiences

2018-Present Gallery KLBT Art Director

2012-2017 “Art instructor” of lee&lee Gallery Art Academy (teaching drawing, painting)

2012-2017 “Teaching Artist” for adult studio art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (teaching basic studio art, still life, mixed drawing & Painting, teen’s art camp, evenings for educators)

2011 Art Instructor of “Sunday Family Program”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

2005-2011 Instructor of Fine Art Dept. The University of Hawaii on Kauai Community College, Lihue, HI

2003 Art Instructor of the Kauai Academy of Creative Art, Lihue, HI

1999-2001 Art director of Tustin Renessance Gallery, Tustin, CA

1987-1999 A director and private visual art instructor of the Art House, Los Angeles, CA

1993-1998 Instructor of special program “Arts of Asia” Korean celebration past& present, Los Angeles county Museum of Art. CA

1996-1998 Instructor of Art at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Book Publishing

2023 “Aloha Kauai” Essay with paintings book. KLBT Publishing Co

2012 “My True Blue Friend” painting book, Blurb Publishing Co

Reproduction

2019-Present Wearable Art (Kyungsoo lee’s collection) by Le Galeriste

Contact Me

Location

Menifee, California, 92584

[email protected]

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