Lee Ji-Eun majored in Western painting for undergraduate studies and art history and record management for her graduate studies. Since 2009, she has been working as an archivist at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. She was in charge of several exhibitions and archives linked to exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art including Media Art from MMCA Collection: Out of the Silent Planet (2010–2011), Countryside: Centennial Celebration of Lee In-sung's Birth (2012), 23 Artists of the Year (2011), Korea Artist Prize (2012), and In Snail's Gallop—Lee Kun-yong (2014). She also worked on the implementation and utilization of the modern art materials and archives collection (Choi Yeol, Kim Bok Ki) at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Currently, she is organizing the experimental art materials of the 1960s and 1970s that were recently donated to the museum.