About
Lee, Jeong Lok
| 1971 | Born in Gwangju |
| 1996 | B.F.A in Design, Gwangju University, Gwangju, Korea |
| 1998 | M.F.A in Photo Design, Graduate school of Hongik University, Seoul, Korea |
| 2002 | M.F.A in Fine Art Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA |
Lee Jeong Lok captures the deep, fundamental energy hidden beneath visual experience through photography. By layering flash bursts onto film landscapes, he boldly renders the unknown forces he has encountered. His work - a direct visualization of awe experienced in nature - brims with mystical energy that awakens the senses and soul of the viewer.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | Private Light (Gallery Now, Seoul) |
| 2024 | In the Night: Purification and Sublimation (Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea) Lee, Jeonglok (Ryugyong Gallery, Pyeongchang, Korea) |
| 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 | The Way (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea) 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 | Nabi Ⅱ (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 | Journey of Light (Shinsegae Gallery, Busan, Korea) One Day – Tree of Life (Logos Gallery, Uiwang, Korea) 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) Tree of Life in Island (Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, 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, Rochester, New York, USA) |
| 1998 | The Southern Land (Gallery 2000, Seoul, Korea) |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | Korea International Photo Festival (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea) |
| 2024 | Busan International Photo Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Port of Busan, Busan, Korea) Chilgok International Transmedia Festival (Chilgok Craft Theme Park, Chilgok, Korea) |
| 2023 | Insight into Nature and Humanity (Korean Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary) ME BEFORE YOU (Daisy Gallery, Jeju, Korea) Sound of Spring (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea) |
| 2022 | Resonance of Trees (Korean Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium) The Second Spring (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea) Synthesis of Difference (Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India) |
| 2021 | Thy Way of Living Artist (Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea) |
| 2019 | Circulation Metaphor (Korean Cultural Center, London, UK) The Flâneur in Another Time (Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea) |
| 2018 | Gwangju Biennale – Imagined Borders (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea) 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 Corée – Beyond the Horizon (Chapelle de l’Hôtel-Dieu, Dreux, France) Parallel World: Tree of Life & Nabi (Pontone Gallery, London, UK) The Spring in Clayarch, Butterfly (Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea) |
| 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 (Kabataş, 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” (Gwangju 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 (Gwangju 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, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea) Getxophoto Festival (Getxo, Spain) Blue Dot ASIA (Seoul Arts 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 |
| 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 Grand Prize, Shinsegae Art Awards, Korea |
Public Collections
| Goeun Museum of Photography (Busan, Korea) |
| Gwangju Museum of Art (Gwangju, Korea) |
| Art Sonje Museum (Gyeongju, Korea) |
| Jeju Museum of Art (Jeju, Korea) |
| Westin Chosun Hotel (Busan, Korea) |
| Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea) |
| Daelim Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) |
| Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) |
| Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, (Muan, Korea) |
Publication
| Mythical Gleams (Lumos) |
| Strange landscape (Noonbit) |
