Born in Seoul, South Korea, Bo Lee is a contemporary artist, incorporating video / painting / drawing / found objects / concepts / installation to explore themes of symbolism, social malfunctions, personal narrative, and mental wellness.  His videos often implement rapid cuts / found footage / animation / personally shot elements to experiment with meaning and emotion.  His conceptual work incorporates found objects such as sneakers, burnt notebooks in jars, broken rulers and cigarettes to create shifts in language and definition against social relationships.

Raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Bo Lee attended Pratt Institute of Art and spent 10 years in Brooklyn before moving to Seoul.  He currently resides in New Jersey.  Making references to dadaism, post-modernism and primitive art; his varied style is often referred to as having a “lack of one.”

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Education:
BFA Pratt Institute of Art 


Solo Exhibitions
2020_Odi et Amo_Gallery Yoho_Seoul, South Korea
2017_When We Were Young_Object_Seoul, South Korea
2015_Idol Worship_Yonaluky Gallery, Heyri Art Village, South Korea
2015_Hopeless Romantic_ONETWO, Heyri Art Village, South Korea


Selected Group Exhibitions / Installations
2019_Process Festival "On the Question of Senses"_Riga, Latvia
2019_22nd_Rencontres Traverse Video_Toulouse, France
2019_hep magazine exhibition_issue2 "by this river"_Seoul, South Korea
2018_G-Train_Memory Riders_Gallery Skape, Seoul, South Korea
2017_Just Kids_Goldmine Unlimited, Hamilton, NJ USA
2015_Sulfur Cinema_Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA US
2015_Present_Goldmine Studios, Heyri Art Village, South Korea
2012_Madatac_Official International Section_Centrocentro Cibeles of Culture, Madrid, Spain
2011_Da Gallery Bubbling Giggling, NY, NY
2010_Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel, Switzerland
2009_Prism, Sheffield UK
2007_KinoFest Bucharest, Romani
2006_Place of Art "OFFicyna" Szczecin, Polan
2006_European Film Festival "for the first five" Neubrandenburg, German
2006_PI five video/short films review Szczecin, Poland
2006_Videominuto poptv (retrospective) Prato, Italy
2006_Ephemeral Drift_hun gallery New York,
2006_Korean Overseas Art Festival Seoul, South Korea
2006_Scope Hamptons New York,
2006_Emerging korean video_maxim New York,
2006_Moving Image_cave gallery Brooklyn, NY
2005_All Architecture Must Die_sputnik Brooklyn, NY
2005_International Connection_00130gallery Helsinki, Finland

Video Commissions
2011_Dalsma Conference, Seoul, S. Korea
2010_Pepsi/Mt. Dew, NY, NY
2008_Covenant House, NY, NY

Selected Bibliography
​2019_Hep Magazine_By This River_Artist Interview
2017_Quarterly Trash Magazine #1 My Favorite Trash
2009_Beautiful Decay