Suwon Lee
Suwon Lee (b.1977) is a Korean-Venezuelan artist based in Madrid, Spain. Biography. Suwon Lee was born in 1977 to Korean parents in Caracas, Venezuela. She migrated from Venezuela in 2016 and often uses space and belonging as a theme in her photographs. In 2008, she won a grant awarded by Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFOs) in Miami, and later that year, she . In this same year, she was included in her first solo show at Periférico Caracas. In the "Younger than Jesus Artist Directory" (2009)"," a directory of emerging artists throughout out the world, Suwon Lee was  the only Venezuelan selected by an international jury to be in the book. In 2005, Suwon Lee and artist Luis Romero co-founded the alternative contemporary art space, "Oficina#1", located in Caracas, Venezuela. For her work with "Oficnia#1", she was nominated and won the International Young Visual Arts Entrepreneur award from the British Council of Venezuela in 2008. "Oficina#1" closed in 2016. Education. Suwon Lee earned her BA in French studies at the American University of Paris in 2001. From 2001 to 2002, she studied photography at Speos Paris Photographic Institute. In 2006, she took the PHotoESPAÑA Masterclass with German  photographer Axel Hütte. Alongside her Bachelor's Degree and Masterclass, she worked with Nelson Garrido in his photography workshop in Caracas, Venezuela. Artworks. Suwon Lee primarily works in photography focusing on landscapes and cityscapes. Her images attempt to show a relationship between physical body and the natural world by emphasizing space, time, and light. More recently, she has worked in nude self-portraits are to show herself as the foreigner and the multicultural identity that she has lived with, being born in Venezuela and coming from Korean parents. Collections. Her artwork is held in major metropolitan museums including MoMA New  York, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, CIFO Miami, and Museu de Arte Brasileira da Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado.