Michelle Jane Lee

Michelle Jane Lee is a Korean American artist based in Los Angeles. Lee holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; her work has shown in New York, Berlin, LA and Taipei.

Medium	Mixed Media
Location	Los Angeles, CA
Date of birth	1982

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Michelle Jane Lee's abstract works are predominantly presented in the form of painting, showcasing a perfect balance between rationality and sensibility through the use of various textures. They explore the artist's cultural awareness and emotional expression as an Asian American. By combining vibrant textures with bright color blocks, Lee's works provide viewers with an infinite visual feast that oscillates between boldness and gentleness, offering a sense of fulfillment.

Lee spent her childhood in Seoul, Korea, lived and studied in Chicago and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Curriculum vitae

Education

2006
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

2005
Yale University Summer School of Art
Norfolk, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2022
‘Soft Landing’
Gallery Chaio, Taipei, Taiwan (forthcoming)

2021
‘Skin Contact’
Terminal 27, Los Angeles, CA

2016
'Spectrum'
Team One, Los Angeles, CA

2014
'Anonymous'
Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

2014
'But Now (You're Just Los Angeles And Everybody Lies)'
Kerckhoff Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2012
'Love Notes'
Gallery 3209, Los Angeles, CA

Art Fairs

2021
Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan with Gallery Chaio

2021
Art Formosa, Taipei, Taiwan with Gallery Chaio

Select Two-Person Exhibitions

2019
'Out Of The Sun' with Lee Piechocki
Outback Arthouse, Los Angeles, CA

2014
'Proximate Mediations' with Davin Kyle Knight
Autonomie Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2013
'Always This One Time' with Easton Miller
Basic Space, Los Angeles, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

2023 ‘Abstraction in LA’ Forrest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2022 ‘Deep Time Digitality’ Themes + Projects Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 ‘Intimate Objects | Essential Images’ Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
2021 ‘The Light We Seek’ Gallery Chiao, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 'A+ Celebration’ Artnutri Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2021 'NOMAD' Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020 ‘11:11’ soft.core, Los Angeles, CA
2019 'Re:Union' Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2019 'Showcase' curated by soft.core Riveter, Los Angeles, CA
2018 'Assuage the Algorithm' curated by soft.core Montevista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 'In This Together' Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2018 'Phase ll' Lane Crawford, Shanghai, China
2018 'Phase l' Lane Crawford, Central, Hong Kong
2017 'Trust Fall' ALSO, Los Angeles, CA
2017 'Geometry in the Expanded Field' Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
2016 'Roses and Keys' Basic Space, Austin, TX
2016 'From The Barricades' Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015 'Reconstructed' PYO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 'Here!' Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2015 'MAS Attack' San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2014 'Dragnet' Creative Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2014 'Exchange Rates' Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
2014 'MAS Attack' Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014 'CRAVE' REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2013 'Overload' Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2013 'Next To Nothing' Coastline College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2013 'International Mermaids' Carsberg Byen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 'Painting On Edge II' D.E.N. Contemporary, Beverly Hills, CA
2012 'Where My Cones At?' POVevolving, Los Angeles, CA
2012 'Painting On Edge' Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
2012 'If You Think I'm Sexy' Gallery 461, New York City, NY
2011 'Transregional Aesthetics' Castle Inn Gallery, Delaware Water Gap, PA
2011 'Chain Letter' Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 'Group Show' Gallery 3209, Los Angeles, CA
2010 'Who Are These People' Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010 'Five Years Later' The Purple Pineapple Project, Los Angeles, CA
2008 'Apocalypse' Lasso Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 'Group Show' Midwest Fest, Chicago, IL
2007 'Mail Order' Tulip, Chicago, IL