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LEE Wan

Contemporary Artist

LEE Wan
Title SDF2023 Opening Ceremony
Times of the Remarks 2023. 11. 02. 08:30-08:45

LEE Wan majored in sculpture at Dongguk University College of the Arts and completed his master’s coursework in media art at the same institution. His works span a range of media including sculpture, installation, documentary, media, and AI and tell stories about individuals as well as the massive systems of globalization, capitalism, politics, economics, history, and culture. In 2014 he was awarded Best Artist at Samsung Leeum Museum of Art’s first Artspectrum Awards. In 2015 he received the Kim Se-choong Sculpture Award for Best Young Sculptor, and in 2017 he was selected to be featured at the Korean Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. He has done numerous collaborations and projects with a range of companies, including LMVH Foundation in France, MOYNAT, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Company’s ZER01NE, and Craddle, and his works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Samsung Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, LVMH Louis Vuitton Foundation-Paris, and Cheongju Museum of Art. He is currently doing research for a project that points out the problems with humanism and imagines how AI and other technological advancements will reshape human lives and relationships, all through the lens of trans/post-humanism.