Lee Kwang-Ho

• Born in 1967, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
  
  Currently a professor of Western painting at Ewha Womans University, College of arts and design, Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1999    MFA in printmaking, Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Korea
  1994    BFA in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2023
  Lee Kwang-Ho: BLOW-UP, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2021
  Lee Kwang Ho, gallery2 Joongsun Nongwon, Jeju Island, Korea
  Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea 
  
  2020   
  Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2018   
  Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
   

  2016

  Lee Kwang Ho, Art Central (Johyun Gallery), Hong Kong

  
  2014   
  Picturing Landscape, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012   
  Caress, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
  
  2011   
  Touch, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2010   
  Touch, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008   
  Lee Kwang-Ho, Daegu MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
  
  2006    
  Inter-View in Changdong, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Paintings with Annotations, Hanjeon Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002   
  The Spy, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001   
  Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
  
  1996   
  Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  Unboxing Project 2: Portable Gallery, New Spring Project, Seoul, Korea
  Samdadojingyung (Landscape of Three Abundances): Human, Myth, and Nature, Seogwipo Arts Center, Seogwipo, Korea
  on Flora and Painting, Lee Hwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2022
  Seeing Beyond, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Moments We Encounter, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
  Growing Plants, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Seongnam, Korea
  Instinctively, both, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
  I AM SORRY! I AM NOT REAL, MOM!, Jeju Museum Of Art, Jeju, Korea
  on Flora and Painting, Lee Hwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2021 
  Will Snow Fall on Ruins, on Ruins?, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  Present of Nature, Lotte Gallery Avenuel, Seoul, Korea
  on Flora and Painting, Tongin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  We connect Art & Future, Kiaf and INCHEON AIRPORT, Incheon, Korea
  Friendship: Mentor-Mentee, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Support SARUBIA 2021, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea
  
  2019
  Figurative Abstract, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  Botanica, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Dictionary of Contemporary Art, 7 Keywords Exhibition, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea
  
  2017             
  Friendship: Mentor-Mentee, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Neo-naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
  The Ordinary Amount of Light and Air, Joy of Arts, Seoul, Korea
  With Companions, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016             
  Beyond Representation-Encounter with the Hyperreal World, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea
  A7, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea
  Being In Nature, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
  2016 Alma Mater II, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015             
  Same Difference (Lee Kwang-Ho, Yoo Geun-Taek), space bm, Seoul, Korea
  Realism Interface, Seokdang Museum of Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
  Illusion and Fantasy, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Stranger Seen Through Inward Eye, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea
  Christie's Asian Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
  Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Seven Signs, Park Soo Keun Museum, Yanggu, Korea
  2015 Asia Art Archive Annual Fundraiser, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong
  Support SARUBIA 2015, Gallery 3, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014   
  Royal Jelly, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  Trace of Korean Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  Residing in private places, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea
  Ways of seeing, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  Manifestation, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  AMMA UMMA!, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
  Reality, Between Representation and Autonomy, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea
  Still Life, CSP111 ARTSPACE, Seoul, Korea
  Made in Hands, Gallery SEIN, Seoul, Korea
  Dialogue in the moonlight, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
  Human, For a while, Culture Factory Osan, Osan, Korea
  
  2012   
  Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  Chae Yong Sin and Korean Portraits – Ideals and Illusions, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
  Manner in Korean Paintings, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
  SHIFT, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
  Im/Pulse to See, Gallery 101, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011   
  The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011_Hyperrealism, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Abstract it!, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  Seekers of the Future of Memories, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Fiction & Nonfiction, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
  SHIFT, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2010
  Instinctively, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
  Defense Mechanism, TN Gallery, Beijing, China
  Biennale+ one – Why Korea Contemporary art Now, Space zoo, Gwangju, Korea
  The Lamp of the East, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea & Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India
  Busan Biennale- Now Asian Artist, Citizen Hall, Busan, Korea
  Hyperrealism Painters, Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea
  
  2009   
  Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
  Non-landscape Landscape, Pocheon Art Valley, Pocheon, Korea
  
  2008   
  Reality – Portraits, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Beyond Definition: still-life, portrait, landscape, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
  Fifty- five Contemporary Artists, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 
  Reality in Contemporary Art, Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  On Painting, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Video Killed the Painting Star, Domus Artium 2002 Salamanca, Spain
  Con-terminal, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  A Complex, Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Where Euclid Walked, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Charge Your Imagination, Gyunggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Korean Reality & Spirit, Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Window and Light, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Context & Figure, Daewon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Selected Artist Exhibition for the III edition of the Castellon County Council International Painting Prize, Castellon, Spain
  New Acquisitions, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Figures in Landscape, Gallery the New Gate East, Seoul, Korea
  Propose 7, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
  The Truth of Six Rooms, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Face of Our Time, Kimhae Arts & Sports Center, Yun Seul Museum of Art, Kimhae, Korea
  Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Angel, Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  Ryu Yong-moon, Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Space Sadi, Seoul, Korea
  Art & Film, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Scenery look at the eye, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
  Read a diary, Gallery Wooduck, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Print 2005, Gallery Topohaus, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004    
  Seam, Gallery Myart, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  The Void of Representation, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
  Trick, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Family, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
  
  2002   
  One Thousand Eyes, One Thousand Ways, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea
  Korea Young Artists Biennale 2002, Gallery of Daegu Culture Center, Daegu, Korea
  The Mystery, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Songeun Art Grand Prix, Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Visual & Figure, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
  
  2001    
  Young Creation - Seeing, Being Seen, Gallery of Sejong Culture Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000   
  Paintings for Nurturing the Intelligence, Gallery Sabina, Seoul, Korea
  Convergence and Divergence, Shinsegye Gallery, Incheon, Korea
  
  1999   
  Painting / Picture, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea
  The Exhibition of Rhu, Lee, Kim, Gallery Seonam, Seoul, Korea
  M.F.A. Exhibition, S.N.U. Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998   
  The Art of Painting, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997   
  Inter-View, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea
  300 Spaces, Gallery Youn, Seoul, Korea
  The Political Survival of Artists, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
  S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition, Tokyo National University, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1996   
  The Language of Print Exhibition, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
  D-22 / Politics outside of Politics, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
  Tomorrow's Print Exhibition, Gallery Dansung, Seoul, Korea
  S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995   
  Contemporary Korean Print Competition, Dongbang Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Drawing Exhibition, Tokyo National University, Japan
  
  1994   
  Convergence and Divergence, Citizen Hall, Incheon, Korea

Selected Awards

• 2006             
  Selected Artists for the 3^rd International Painting Prize of the Castellon County Council, Spain
  Award of Excellence, Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005-6  
  International Artist Studio Program, National Changdong Art Studio, Korea
  
  2003   
  Korean Culture and Arts Foundation fellowship, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995   
  Award of Excellence, Contemporary Korean Print Competition, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Government Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea
  Government Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
  Suwon Musuem of Art, Suwon, Korea
  By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
  Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China