Suwon Lee

Suwon Lee is a Korean-Venezuelan currently based in Madrid. She belongs to the recent Venezuelan diaspora. She has exhibited individually in Caracas, Madrid and Seoul.

Her works are in the collections of MoMA New York (USA), Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (USA), CIFO Miami (USA), Colección Banco Mercantil (Venezuela), Museu de Arte Brasileira da Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (Brazil) and in various private collections in Venezuela, Colombia, USA, Spain, Germany, Costa Rica, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

Suwon Lee’s work falls within three antipodes: subject vs. universe, light vs. darkness, and individual vs. collective, to point out the vulnerability of the human condition in the face of the incommensurability of the cosmos and the cycles of life. Lee’s is a self-referential, meditative, and contemplative work, forged by the need to undergo a process of self-awareness and healing.

Even though photography has been her privileged medium, her work has resorted to video, installation, prints, and ceramics to configure bodies of work in which it is possible to identify the persistence of resources or expressive elements such as long exposure photography, dark atmospheres, sidereal landscapes, light-emanating bodies, brilliance, gold patinas and texts.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

International group shows include MoMA New York (2023), Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid (2021), the Guangzhou Image Triennial curated by Gerardo Mosquera (2021), Vincent Price Museum, USA (2018); Arizona State University Museum, USA (2017); Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2013); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014), the 9th Bienal do Mercosul (2013), Biennial of the Americas: Draft Urbanism (2013); and many other shows in the US, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Spain, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, and France, among others.