JinJoon Lee
Dr. Jinjoon Lee FRSA (born 1974 in Masan, South Korea) is a UK based Korean artist, architectural designer, creative director, and professor working in a wide range of media, including sculpture, photo, video, sound installation, and architecture, to explore the perception of utopian space ideologies. After graduating from Seoul National University in Seoul, he went on to study Moving Image and Design Interaction at the Royal College of Art in London, and the doctorate degree of philosophy in the Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford. Since giving his debut solo exhibition at ARKO Art Centre of Arts Council Korea in 2008, Lee has exhibited at numerous venues worldwide including Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, India International Centre, The Prague National Gallery in the Czech Republic, The National Museum of Bulgaria, Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music in London. He is awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and a full-fledged member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). Lee’s studio is perhaps best known for the public media sculpture They, which was permanently installed at Digital Media City, Seoul in 2010, and works on the architectural design and development of innovative projects for various requests around the world. Having previously taught at the University of Oxford, He has been appointed a professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 2021.
