Korean's Spirit II
December 13, 2025 – April 15, 2026
JUNE LEE, Witness, 2013 Thread on plastic cast 33 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm
JUNE LEE, Witness, 2013 Thread on plastic cast 33 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm
JUNE LEE, Witness, 2013 Thread on plastic cast 33 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm
JUNE LE, Weight of Human (n.4), 2017 Thread on resin cast and clay 58 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm
JUNE LEE, Today is history of Tomorrow, 2018 Thread on ceramic, hand painting, ceramic 30 x 45 x 45 cm
June LEE (b. 1985)
June Lee’s work focuses on the individual in the contemporary society today. She explores the neutrality and duality of the individual as a distinct unity and again as a constituent of the collective society. In particular, she sheds light on the social phenomena surrounding the individual in a contemporary social space, focusing on negative conditions such as bystander effect, mass psychology, scapegoating, and biases. Using the East Asian element of the thread, which represents human life, to form human figure-like works, her art looks at the problems of the modern Man from a third-person perspective.
EDUCATION
2012 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art in Fiber, Bloomfield Hills, MI, US
2008 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting and Drawing, Chicago, IL, US
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Bystander, Pier2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUPE EXHIBITIONS
2018 Excellence in Fiber, San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile, CA, US
2018 12th Interntional Biennial of Contemporary Textitle Art “Scythia”, Ukraine
2017 Public Art New Hero, JCC Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Juncture, San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile, CA, US
2017 32nd Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU MoMA, FL, US
2017 The Cherry Valley Biennial Summer Sculpture Trail, NY, US
2017 2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Rijswijk Museum, Rijswijk, Netherlands
2017 International Textile Biennial 2017, Haacth, Belgium
2016 Primatic, Korean Culture Center DC, Washington D.C, US
2016 Timespace -7 Paris, DDP Gallery Mun, Seoul, Korea
2016 The Faces of Politics: In/Tolerance, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, US
2016 Fiber International 2016,Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA, US
2015 Do Dream Small Museum Open Exhibition, Do Dream Small Museum,
Dongduchun, South Korea
2015 Fiber International 7, Sebastopol Center for Art, Sebastopol, CA, US
2015 Revelation, 2nd France Fine Craft and Creates Biennale, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2015 Kaleidoscope world, Danwan Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
2015 The 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Special Exhibition “Multi-colored
Stories to Know: Ceramic of Life, Ceramic of Space collaboration”,
Bandal Art Museum, Yeoju, Korea
2014 Bag Stage #6, Bag is Performance with 0914 Simone,
Simone Handbag Museum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 New Direction, LA Craft and Folk Museum, LA, US
2014 ITAB: International TECHstyle Art Biennale, San Jose Museum of Textile and Quit, US
