Suwon Lee

Suwon Lee (born 1977) is a Korean-Venezuelan artist based in Madrid, Spain.

Biography Suwon Lee was born in 1977 to Korean parents in Caracas, Venezuela. She migrated from Venezuela in 2016 and often uses space and belonging as a theme in her photographs. In 2008, she won a grant awarded by Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFOs) in Miami, and later that year, she . In this same year, she was included in her first solo show at Periférico Caracas. In the Younger than Jesus Artist Directory (2009), a directory of emerging artists throughout the world, Suwon Lee was the only Venezuelan selected by an international jury to be in the book. In 2005, Suwon Lee and artist Luis Romero co-founded the alternative contemporary art space Oficina#1, located in Caracas. For her work with Oficnia#1, she was nominated and won the International Young Visual Arts Entrepreneur award from the British Council of Venezuela in 2008. Oficina#1 closed in 2016.

Education Suwon Lee earned her BA in French studies at the American University of Paris in 2001. Her images attempt to show a relationship between physical body and the natural world by emphasizing space, time, and light. More recently, she has worked in nude self-portraits are to show herself as the foreigner and the multicultural identity that she has lived with, being born in Venezuela and coming from Korean parents.

Exhibitions Source: +Selected Solo ShowsTitleOrganizationLocationDateLandscapes & Self-Portraits. Female Voices of Latin America. Vortic.artOnline PlatformApril 4 -

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, CIFO Miami, and Museu de Arte Brasileira da Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado.

Honors and awards Source:

2008 - Recipient of the International Young Visual Arts Entrepreneur Award by the British Council. 2008 - Recipient of the Grants and Commissions Program awarded by Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in Miami. 2010 – Emerging Artist Award 2009 from the International Association of Art Critics, Venezuelan Chapter. 2011 – Young Artist Prize from the Venezuela Association of Fine Artists