Sooji Lee is a Korean who was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia since she was 6. She
studied her BA in industrial design department in Seoul, Korea and worked in
New York as a graphic designer. Now she is living and working in The Netherlands
as a visual artist / graphic designer since after studying information design MA
at Design Academy Eindhoven.
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Pure pleasure from the simplest of labors done by the human hand, the sense
of achievement acquired through time and effort being poured, reflection
through irreversible mistakes in addition to the longing for unintended beauty
expressed through said mistakes - these things have been the essence of this
work for the past six years. Both the general production process and the
format has been reconstructed in a more personal and exaggerated way, once
again, making the process “thicker” to show how the results are incapable of
being replicated through machinery. ‘A Very Personal Methodology of Crafting
the Graphic’, a project which started 6 years ago, has been gradually
added/expanded every year. Through this ever-changing process, graphics
have been ‘crafted’ solely by human hands.
Education
2014 - 2016 Design Academy Eindhoven, NL, MA Information Design
2005 - 2011 Hongik Univ, KR, BA Industrial Design
Artist Residency
2023 – 2024 | SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, KR
2022 - 2023 | Inchon Art Platform, Inchon, KR
2018 - 2019 | Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
Award
2021 | OCI young creatives
2021 | Honorable Mention, Cheongju International Craft Competition 2021
2021 | Arte Laguna Prize 2021, Artists in the spotlight
2020 | The Best Dutch Book Designs 2019, Vicky, Karo, Sooji
2017 | Typographic Excellence 63rd Type Directors Club Awards, NY
2016 | Gijs Bakker Award Nominee, Eindhoven, NL
Publications
2019 | in process of _ making Bodoni Typeface, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
2019 | Vicky, Karo, Sooji, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
Speech
Golden Hands; Thursday night live, Het Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Art Direction
2018 - 2019 | The Materialists
Solo Exhibition
Nov 2023《4 Tools》Soorim Art Center, Seoul, KR
Sep 2023《Goodbye to the art》Limestone Books, Maastricht, NL
Jan 2023《Form forming, Formation》Inchon Art Platform, Inchon, KR
Aug 2022《Liminal Phase》Oci Museum, Seoul, KR
Jan 2022《Art teleported》Cica Museum, Gimpo, KR
Apr 2017《When Attitudes Become Typeface》4bid Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Collective Exhibition
2023
《Open Quotation Marks, Close Quotation Marks》 Typojanchi 2023, Culture Station 284, Seoul, KR
《Things supporting the family》 Bando foundation Ivy Gallery, Hwasung, KR
《Your platform, your park / Re-wild garden : Forest》 Incheon art platform, Incheon, KR
《Hamel residency 2021》 Post territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
2021
《Tools for conviviality1》 Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, KR
2020
《The Best Dutch Book Designs 2019》 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2019
《Open Craft》 TAC, Eindhoven, NL
《Open Studio》Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL
2018
《The Way We Face Leather》 Art Direction, TAC, Eindhoven, NL
《Design day #13》Maastricht, NL
《The Materialists Present Paper》Ventura Future, Milan, IT
《The Materialists Present Paper》YKSI Expo, Eindhoven, NL
《The Materialists Present Paper》Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2017
《The Anti Efficients》Veem, Eindhovnen, NL
《When Attitudes Become Typeface》Kazerne Gallery, Eindhoven, NL
《The 63rd Annual Type Directors Club》TDC 63 Traveling Exhibitions
2016
《In Need of》Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
2015
《Machining Vally Embassy》Exhibition Currating, Sectie C, NL
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