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Lee Jin-joon

b. 1974

South Korean artist, designer and director

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Born 1974. Lee Jin-joon is a South Korean installation artist, sculptor and television producer.

Julian Jinjoon Lee FRSA (이진준; born in Masan, South Korea; permanent resident in the United Kingdom) is a contemporary artist and professor at KAIST who also serves as a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, University of Oxford, and an Affiliate Professor at New York University.

Education After graduating from the Business School of Seoul National University in 2001, he obtained a BFA and an MFA in art college from SNU. He then went on to pursue a master's degree in Moving Image(Jane and Louise Wilson) and Design Interaction (Anthony Dunne) at the Royal College of Art in London, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art, and St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.

Career He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a 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 has also gained international recognition for directing the satellite-based media art project Good Morning, Mr. G-Dragon and the large-scale citizen-participatory media performance Cine-Forest: Awakening Bloom. He is currently an associate professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and the founding director of the KAIST Art and Technology Center. In addition to his role at KAIST, Lee holds international academic appointments, including a Supernumerary Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He previously served as a Visiting Scholar at St John's College, Oxford, University of Oxford. He also held a Visiting Researcher position at Tokyo University of the Arts. He is currently an Affiliate Professor at New York University.

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Born
1974, Masan
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Royal College of Art, Seoul National University
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Jinjoon Lee

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Who is Lee Jin-joon?

South Korean artist, designer and director

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Lee Jin-joon was born in 1974 in Masan.

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Lee Jin-joon is an installation artist, sculptor and television producer.

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Lee Jin-joon is South Korean.

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