ARTIST

Yanghee Lee (b. 1976) is an artist who uses the language of performing arts, creating temporary theaters or presenting her work in exhibitions. Having practiced traditional Korean dance for a long time since her childhood, LEE was actively engaged in the underground club culture that flourished in Korea from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Based on her personal bodily history, she seeks to recognize Korean dance, which has been rigidly fixed under the label of “tradition,” from a broader perspective. The artist explores the form of traditional Korean dance, its formal restrictions, and the boundaries of extinguished immateriality and deteriorated archetypes, while continuing to establish her distinctive archetype with her adventurous spirit. Recently, she has chosen the body, pleasure, and form as key themes of her work, which comprise the act of “dance” itself without any definitions, expressed through video and performance. With Limbo Project Performing Art Lab, LEE sheds light on the nature, attitude, and elements of performing arts in a horizontal manner, questioning the value, ownership, and enjoyment of the performing arts in workshops. 
Lee was selected as an artist-in-residence at New York Live Arts (2011) and Movement Research (2014-2016) and received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council (2016). Her major works include Shimmering, Aficionado, Twixt, Twig, Hedonist, Hail, Gesamtkunstwerk, Dusk, and Unlearn: Form and Cliché. Her major solo exhibitions include Axis and Feet (The Page Gallery, 2024), IN (Whistle, 2024), and Hail (d/p, 2020). Her major group exhibitions include Seeing in the Dark (Busan Biennale, 2024), Big Brother Blockchain (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2024), Theater Post Media and Site (Busan Museum of Art, 2023), Landscape of Life: How Are You Today? (Ulsan Art Museum, 2023), play, pause, repeat (Artspace Boan, 2023), Flesh Stone Oil (WESS, 2022), and 1920 Memory Theater The Gold Rush (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2020).