Artist

Lee Seungtaek

Seung-taek Lee (b. 1932) is highly regarded as a leader of Korea’s avant-garde via his practice of “non-sculpture” that disrupts conventional artistic notions and questions established political and social values. His groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice utilizes traditional material and folk objects and manifests itself in site-specific environmental land works, interventions, ephemeral performance, appropriated canvas works, sculpture, and photographs.

  • Education
    • 1959 B.F.A., Department of Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 2018 《Seung-taek Lee》, White Cube, London, United Kingdom
      2017 《Seung-taek Lee》, Palazzo Caboto, Venice, Italy
      2017 《Seung-taek Lee》, Levy Gorvy Gallery, New York, USA
      2015 《Drawing》, GALLERY HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
      2012 《Lee Seung-taek 1932-2012: Earth, Wind and Fire》, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
      1997 《Seung-taek Lee: 50 Years of Experimental Art》, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
      1983 《Seung-taek Lee: Non-Sculpture》, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2019 《Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s-1990s》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
      2018 《Renegades in Resistance and Challenge》, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
      2018 《Blooming at the Junction》, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
      2017 《Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive》, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, United Kingdom
      2016 《Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965》, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
      2016 《As the Moon Waxes and Wanes》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
      2016 《L’ALMANACH 16》, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
      2015 《The Sound of Things: Materiality in Contemporary Korean Art since the 1970s》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
      2013 《Prague Biennale 6》, Freight Railway Station, Prague, Czech Republic
      2010 《The 8th Gwangju Biennale》, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
      2007 《Performance Art of Korea 1967-2007》, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
      2001 《Korean Contemporary Art from mid-1960s to mid-1970s: A Decade of Transition and Dynamics》, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  • Residencies/Awards/
    Collections
    • Awards
      2017 JCC Art Prize, JCC Museum, Seoul, Korea
      2016 Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award, Kim Se-Choong Commemoration Foundation, Seoul, Korea
      2014 Eungwan (Silver Crown) Order of Cultural Merit, Korea
      2009 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
      2000 Bogwan (Precious Crown) Order of Cultural Merit, Korea
      1985 Grand Prize, International Outdoor Sculpture Festival, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan
      1977 Grand Prize, Space Art Awards, SPACE Magazine, Korea

      Collections
      Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
      National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
      Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, Korea
      Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
      The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, USA
      Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Related Articles

〈Untitled〉, 1963 / 2018, Paint, earthenware, Dimensions variable. Image Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

〈Work 1968-A (A Tower in Blue Vinyl Installation)〉, 1967 / 2018, Stainless steel, steel and urethane vinyl. Image Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

〈Work 1968-C (Yellow Vinyl Tower Installation)〉, 1968 / 2018, Stainless steel, steel and urethane vinyl, Dimensions variable. Image Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

〈Untitled〉, 1982, Stone, rope, Dimensions variable. Image Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

〈Untitled〉, 1982, Cloth, paper, thread and iron pipe, Dimensions vary (site-specific installation). Image Courtesy of Gallery Hyundai

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