HAEVAN LEE

Combining research into contested sites around the world with her experience of growing up near the DMZ, her pastel-hued imagery of unspoiled nature—part stylized iconography, part pastoral reverie—harbors a latent sense of unease. The fluid melding of organic forms and corporeal traces on her pictorial plane is typically interrupted by spare geometric marks evoking military signage, of warnings and limits, the minimalist shapes collapsing the distance between aesthetic form and geopolitical reality. Lee’s practice reactivates the conventions and vocabulary of the landscape genre to interrogate the idea of borders as a spatial and embodied condition, a living threshold where tension and vulnerability alternate with generative potential.

Lee received her BFA in Oriental Painting from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, and an MFA in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Solo exhibitions include the Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, 2025), Insa Art Space (Seoul, 2024), Bradwolff Projects (Amsterdam, 2024), and Peace Culture Bunker (Seoul, 2018). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Museum Arnhem (Netherlands, 2025), Stroom Den Haag (Netherlands, 2024), Marres (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2022), Culture Station Seoul 284 (2021), and the Bangkok Art Biennale (2020). In September 2026, she will begin residency at the Delfina Foundation, London.

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