Gayoung Lee

About

Gayoung Lee (they/she, b. Seoul, South Korea) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who works across performance, video installation, and writing. Their performance practice centers around the production and reproduction of texts to address the shortcomings and inevitabilities of relationships, conflict, trauma, and alienation through linguistic means. Most recently, their work has explored the regulatory power of language that governs our public and private conversations and the politics embedded within the use of multilingualism. They have had a solo exhibition at Post-Territory Ujeongguk (Seoul, 2023) and group exhibitions at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, 2024) and The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul, 2021). Lee is a recipient of the Fulbright Award for Graduate Study and holds a BA in Philosophy and BIS in Comparative Literature from Yonsei University, a BFA in Painting from Seoul National University, and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.