Born in 1983 in Seoul, lives and works in Seoul. ChungHyung Lee received his B.F.A in ceramics at Hongik University and obtained his M.F.A in sculpture at the same school. He held his solo exhibitions Fine works at Space Willing and Dealing in 2015 The site before your eyes at SongEun Artcube in 2016 and also participated in other exhibitions including The dictionary of Evil at Gangwon international biennale in 2018, Summer Love at Song-Eun Artspace in 2018, Revolution will not be televised at Arko Art Center, Night tigers at SeMa storage in 2016, Seoul babel at Seoul Museum of art, diversity of Democracy and Artistic Imagination for the public in Asia at ACC, Gwangju in 2015, Dream Society at Seoul Museum in 2015, and more. As a job, Lee works on construction, installation and design work for exhibitions, which allows him to have much experience of exhibition making and art work production. Based on them, Lee’s work question what art is in the gap between art and life based on labour, how art and exhibition are conditionalized in exhibition environment.

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