Nanjoo Lee

Nanjoo Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist from Seoul, South Korea.

Lee completed a BA in Photography at the Chung-Ang University in 2016 and the MFA degree from Glasgow School of Art in 2023. Recent exhibitions include group shows The Waves From Different Altitudes (Berlin, 2022); Her Voice Before the Blute Spot (Glasgow, 2022); Rinse (Online, 2021); Bodies in Routine (Juárez, 2019); a screening Biscuit Tint 2022: Artists’ Moving Image Festival (Edinburgh, 2022); and a solo show The World Behind the Glass (Seoul, 2021).

Lee infuses objects with metaphorical narratives to explore female subjectivity through autobiographical and collective memory. Through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing painting, moving image, installation, and text, Lee constructs artworks that possess an intimate and contemplative on the female figures and their experience. Lee is particularly interested in the act of translation and its relationship to her art. She views her creative process as a form of language translation, where mundane objects take on symbolic meaning to convey stories about memory, identity, subjectivity, and societal perception.