Lee Bul

Biography

Born

Yeongju, South Korea, 1964

Education

BFA, Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, 1987

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (Forthcoming Travelling Exhibition)
M+, Hong Kong, China (Forthcoming Travelling Exhibition)

2024

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo', New York NY
BB&M Contemporary Art Gallery, 'Lee Bul. Prints', Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibitions

2025

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Monstrous Beauty. A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie', New York NY
BB&M Contemporary Art Gallery, 'Paper Matters', Seoul, South Korea

2024

Secession, 'Forms of the Shadow', Vienna, Austria
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 'Connecting Bodies. Asian Women Artists', Seoul, South Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, 'SeMA Omnibus. At the End of the World Split Endlessly', Seoul, South Korea

Awards and Honors

2024

9th Ruth Baumgarte Art Award, Germany

2022

Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Bibliography

Monographs

2023

Weng, Xiaoyu, 'Lee Bul: Prints', Singapore: STPI – Creative Workshop and Gallery, 2023, ill.
Sjöström, Johan, (ed.), 'Lee Bul', Gothenburg: Göteborgs Konstmuseum, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)
Soikkonen, Sarianne, (ed.), 'Lee Bul', Tampere: The City of Tampere, Sara Hildén Art Museum, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)

2021

Kwon, Jin, Kim, Ayoung, Lee, Mirim, Jihee Hwang, Jenny (et al.), 'Lee Bul. Beginning', Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, BB&M, Mediabus, 2021, ill.

Publications

2024

Youngna, Kim, 'Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes', Leiden: Brill, 2024, ill.

2022

Basqué, Dominique, 'Art & Féminisme', Paris: Editions du Regard, 2022, ill.
Hasegawa, Yuko, (ed.), 'New Ecology and Art: Anthropocene as ‘dithering time’', Tokyo: IBUNSHA, 2022, ill.

Press

2024

Russeth, Andrew, 'The Four Mysterious Guardians of the Artist Lee Bul', on: nytimes.com, 2 Septemer 2024, ill.
Bishara, Hakim, 'Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History', on: hyperallergic.com, 26 September 2024, ill.
Benzine, Vittoria, 'Lee Bul’s Striking Tessellated Figures Take a Stand Outside the Met', on: news.artnet.com, 1 October 2024, ill.
Schwendener, Martha, 'Lee Bul, South Korea’s Provocateur, Ruffles the Met’s Staid Niches', nytimes.com, 3 October 2024

2023

Lloyd-Smith, Harry, 'Artist’s palate: Lee Bul’s recipe Pyongyang naengmyeon', on: wallpaper.com, 12 March 2023, ill.
Benson, Louise, 'Why should we care about names?’: the shape-shifting art of Lee Bul, in: The Guardian, London, 20 March 2023, ill.
Fisher, Simon, 'Lee Bul’s Organic and Inorganic Forms at Thaddaeus Ropac', on: ocula.com, 29 March 2023, ill.
Elkann, Alain, 'Domenica con Lee Bul', in: La Stampa, Turin, 18 June 2023, ill.
Japoshvili, Tatuli, 'Frieze New Writers Pick the Best Shows to See in the Nordics', on: frieze.com, 30 June 2023, ill.
Leppäniemi, Ilari, 'An extensive exhibition opens in Tampere, whose artist became famous by hanging naked from the ceiling', on: aamulehti.fi, 23 September 2023, ill.
Kuvalehti, Suomen, 'Velvet and metal', on: suomenkuvalehti.fi, 28 September 2023, ill.
Ong Sor Fern, 'Arts Picks: Lee Bul prints, Singapore Clay Festival, Siong Leng Musical Association’s Jeju connection', on: straitstimes.com, 2 November 2023, ill.
Yusof, Helmi, 'Lee Bul at STPI: Crafting dreamscapes and dystopias', on: businesstimes.com.sg, 9 November 2023, ill.
___, 'Lee Bul: Prints, curated by Xiaoyu Weng', on: artplugged.co.uk, 23 November 2023, ill.
Small, Zachary, 'Met Announces 2024 Art Commissions', Including Lee Bul, Sculptor of Cyborgs', on:
nytimes.com, 29 November 2023
Rabb, Maxwell, 'Metropolitan Museum of Art Commissions Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul, and Tong Yang- Tze', on: artsy.net, 30 November 2023, ill.
Gaskin, Sam, 'The Met Names Artists for 2024 Commissions', on: ocula.com, 30 November 2023, ill.
Shin, Min-hee, 'Lee Bul’s Sculptures to Be Featured at Met’s Facade', on: koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, 30 November 2023, ill.
Akers, Torey, 'Metropolitan Museum Lines up Three Major Contemporary Art Commissions for 2024', on: theartnewspaper.com, 1 December 2023, ill.

Public Collections

Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Arario Collection, South Korea
Birmingham Museum Trust, Birmigham, UK
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Bernard Arnault Collection, Paris, France
British Museum, London, UK
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Ilshin Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
M+, Hong Kong, China
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
The Schaufler Collection, Sindelfingen, Germany
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Tate, UK
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN