2002 M.F.A in Fine Art Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
1998 M.F.A in Photo Design, Graduate school of Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
1996 B.F.A in Design, Gwangju University, Gwangju, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 White Deer, LUCA (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
2021 LUCA (Gallery Now, Seoul)
That Place, Their Breath (Gwangju Museum of Art Photography)
2020 The origin of energy(Gallery Now, Seoul)
2019 Nabi ((Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Strange Landscape (Space22, Seoul)
2018 Mythical Gleams(Lumos, Daegu, Korea)
Light up the moment(Plops, Seoul)
Tree of life Decade(Gallery Now, Seoul)
2017 Nabi (BK Gallery,Seoul)
Nabi & Tree of life (Lucida Gallery, Jinju)
2016 NabiⅡ (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
Nabi (Pontone Gallery, London, UK)
2015 Nabi (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
See the Unseen (BMW PHOTO SPACE, Busan, Korea)
2014 Let There Be The Light (Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai, China)
Palette of Light (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Tree of Life in Island (Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Tree of Life in Island (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
Light & Revelation (Vit Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Decoding Scape (The Museum of Photography. Seoul, Korea)
Decoding Scape (Duson Museum of Art, Jeju. Korea)
See the Unseen (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
2010 Tree of Life (Vit Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Tree of Life (Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea)
2009 Jeonglok LEE (Gallery Kong, Seoul, Korea)
2007 The Mythic Scape (Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Aquarium (Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea)
2002 Clarias (Nine Gallery, Gwangju, Korea)
2001 Clarias (SPAS Gallery, Rochster, New York, USA)
1998 The Southern Land (Gallery 2000, Seoul, Korea)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Insight into Nature and Humanity (Korean Cultural Center Budapest, Hungary)
2022 Resonance of Trees (Korean Cultural Center Brussels, Belgium)
2022 Synthesis of Difference (Korean cultural centre, New Delhi, India)
2021 Thy way of living artist (posco art museum)
2019 Circulation metaphor ( Korean Cultural Center, London, UK)
The Flaneur in the another time, (Museum San,Wonju, Korea)
2018 Gwangju Biennale -Imagined Borders (Asia culture Center, Gwang ju, Korear)
Artist's meditation method (Savina museum, Seoul, Korea))
Between landscape ( Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea)
2017 Time Machine : "Moment, Light, Camera" (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Regard sur la Coree-Beyond the Horizon ((Chapelle de hotel Dieu, Dreux, France)
Parallel World : Tree of Life & Nabi (Pontone Gallery, London, UK)
The spring in clayarch, Butterfly (Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae)
2016 Contemporary Art 20 of China and Korea (Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China)
Image of Silk Road-Photography Biennale of Tianshui (Tianshui, China)
China International Photographic Festival (Zhengzhou Museum of Art, Zhengzhou, China)
2015 Surveying the Landscape : Contemporary Korean Photography (Wall Space gallery,
Santa Barbara, USA)
Seoul Photo Festival (Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
Foto Istanbul (Kabatas, Istanbul, Turkey)
Dali International Photography Exhibition (Dali, Yunnan province, China)
Master of Light (Shine Artist, London, UK)
Water also Dreams (Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea)
2014 Nature, in process (Space Cottonseed, Singapore, Singapore)
Ha Jung-woong Young Artists “Light-2014” (Kwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea)
FULL MOON : A Story of Sky and Earth, Daegu Photo Biennale (Daegu, Korea)
JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR (Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
Festival of Photography in Museum-History (Kwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea)
2013 Breath of Tree (Cheonan Arts Center Museum of Art, Cheonan, Korea)
Meditated Landscape (Woljeon Museum of Art, Icheon, Korea)
Utopia (Opera gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Fact of Fiction (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Gwangju Biennale - Round Table (Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea)
Mudeung Tales (TODAY ART MUSEUM, Beijing, China)
Secret, the Margin of Error (Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Mythology Today (Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, Korea)
Magical Country (Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea)
Nature, Image (Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea)
The 3rd International Contemporary Art: Creation from the Fingertips (Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea)
2010 Nanjing Biennale: AND_WRITERS (Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China)
On the Cutting Edge: Aspects of Korean Contemporary Photography (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan)
Media Art Festival: DIGIFESTA (Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea)
2009 Seoul International Photo Festival (Garden 5 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Gwangju & Seoul Creative Studio Resident Artists Exchange Exhibition: No... (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea)
SerotoninⅡ (SeMA Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
Getxophoto Festival (Getxo, Spain)
Blue Dot ASIA (Seoul Art Center. Seoul, Korea)
New Digital Age (Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia)
2008 Illusion (2×13 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
Art at Home: Wonderful Life (Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
Factory (Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
Contemporary Korean Art (Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK)
Time of Response (Arario Gallery, Beijing, China)
Awards and Residency
2015 Surim Cultural Arts Awards, Korea
Redpoll Photo Awards Best Photographer, China
2006 Grand Prize, Shinsegae Art Awards, Korea
2014 Shanghai Zendai Zhujiajiao Museum of Art Studio, China
2013 Gasiri Art Studio, Jeju, Korea
2009 Gwangju Museum of Art Studio, Gwangju, Korea
2006 Uijae International Art Studio, Gwangju, Korea
Public Collections
Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea) / Gwangju Museum of Art (Gwangju, Korea) / Daelim Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) / Art Sonje Museum (Gyeongju, Korea) / Westin Chosun Hotel (Busan, Korea) / Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, (Muan, Korea) / Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) / Goeun Museum of Photography (Busan, Korea) / Jeju Museum of Art (Jeju Korea)
Publication
Mythical Gleams( Lumos)
Strange landscape (Noonbit)