Artist Statement/ Biography

Jung Won Lee’s practice is grounded in the idea that humans resemble objects and vice versa: both are beloved, functioning, fulfilling, malfunctioning, fading, and self-alienating, yet we still desire to contribute to and be a part of what we cherish. Inspired by urban spaces designed for productivity, Jung Won captures poetic moments in the mundane, such as overlooked street objects and anonymous interactions among strangers. Working with industrial materials, she primarily creates site-responsive sculptural objects, installations, and drawings. By employing ambiguity and repetition, her work explores the relationship between functionality and the vulnerability of beings.

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Jung Won Lee (b. Seoul, Korea) is an artist based in Brooklyn and Seoul. She celebrates the poetics of vulnerability by creating ambiguous, unreliable objects. Primarily working in sculpture, installation, and drawing, her practice aims to build structures for care. Jung Won holds a BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a BA in Media Studies and Korean Language and Literature from Ewha Womans University. She has exhibited at Current Space, Gateway Gallery, Middendorf Gallery, and Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery in Baltimore, MD. One of her daily rituals is to observe the corners of spaces and look up at the sky.
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