Diren Lee

DIREN LEE

b.1976, South Korea

BIOGRAPHY

Diren Lee is a visual artist working with painting as her primary medium. Her paintings portray empathy between humans and endangered species, abandoned pets, implying feelings and stories of people worldwide on all of the creatures. She composes her artworks with bold colours and lines, which completes a delicate harmony. Dreams and reality collide on her canvas, comforting our souls and healing our wounds.

Diren Lee's work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, including Turning Point, gallery Doo, Korea (2021); Stay With Us, Humax art room x Open gallery, Korea (2020); Fruit, L Gallery, Korea (2019); On those that disappear, MIEL Gallery, Korea (2018); Disappearing things, Yeonwoo Gallery, Korea (2018) and Day Dream, Gallery Wave, Korea (2017) among others.

Her work has also been included in group exhibitions, such as Global song, Tang contemporary art, Hong Kong (2022); Voyages to Korea: CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ART, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan (2021); Back to Work, Waluso gallery, UK (2021); Sindang-dong Public Art and Art Regeneration Project, Dasan Children's Park, Korea (2021); Ba-cance, Collect showroom, Korea (2021); MERRY Go-Round, THEO gallery, Korea (2021); Christmas Crackers, H contemporary gallery, Korea (2020); HAPPY NEW PIG, gallery blossom, Korea (2019) and Manipulated desires, Kim Jongbok Museum of Art, Korea (2018) among many others. 

Lee graduated with a Bachelor of Textile Art degree from Hongik University, Seoul. 

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ARTWORKS

All About You and Me, 2022


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