Korean Photographer Next Visiting Artist at Utah State University

Photographer Jungjin Lee travels from Seoul, Korea, to Utah State University as the next guest in the department of art’s Visiting Artist Program. She will be on campus Oct. 23-25, and a public lecture is Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center room 216.

Lee will show images and discuss her artwork. The lecture is free and open to all.

 

Lee was born in Korea but lived in New York City from 1988 to 1996. She received a master’s degree in photography from New York University. During her years as a graduate student, she worked as an assistant for photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank.

 

Lee’s work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Korea. In the United States, her work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe.

 

“My work is based on a photographic process, but the contents and the spirit of the works are more related to painting or sculpture, or even a poem,” Lee said about her photographs. “For me, real photography does not lie in the end-product, which exists as a mere tool and process. My images have been chosen as a means of metaphorical expression — not a representation of the actual world or a reconstitution of visual beauty, but a basis for fundamental meditation.”

 

Read more about Lee’s work, background and the Visiting Artist Program in the full press release in the Utah State Today archives.