Lee Wal-jong
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WORKS
ABOUT
An Oriental painter who departed from the classical style of ink painting, Lee Wal-jong pursued the modernization of ink-and-color work and attempted a contemporary fusion of Korean painting. Lee taught as a professor of Oriental painting at Chugye University for the Arts from 1979, left the post in 1990 and moved to Seogwipo, Jeju Island, where Lee continues to work. Lee is famous for the series made from life on Jeju, “The Middle Way of Jeju Life.”
Biography
Exhibition history of painter Lee Wal-jong.
Solo exhibitions
- 2022 Melody of Spring, Shinsegae Gallery Daegu, Daegu
- 2021 Gana Art Nine One; Gana Art Sounds, Seoul
- 2018 Seoul Auction Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong
- 2016 Hyundai Gallery, Seoul
- 2012 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
- 2010 Noh Gallery, Seoul
- 2009 Shanghai Cultural Center, China
- 2008 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
- 2006 Gallery Bijutsu-Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
- 2006 Gallery H, Seoul
- 2005 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
- 2002 Montserrat Gallery, New York, USA
- 2001 Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul
- 2000 Gana Art Center, Seoul
- 1997 Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
- 1997 Gana Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France
- 1994 Hansung Gallery, Busan
- 1994 Sumok Gallery, Seoul
- 1991 Hanil Gallery, Busan
- 1991 Cheongjak Museum of Art, Seoul
- 1985 Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul
- 1983 Shinsegae Art Museum, Seoul
- 1981 Korean Gallery, New York
- 1981 Galerie Ostasien, Cologne, Germany
- 1980 Midopa Gallery, Seoul
- 1976 Midopa Gallery, Seoul
- 1971 National Public Information Hall, Seoul
Selected group exhibitions
- 2022 Fear or Love, Seoul Museum of Art
- 2019 Asking Tradition, Gyeongju Solgeo Art Museum
- 2018 Visiting the Neighborhood, Soam Memorial Hall, Seogwipo
- 2018 Nature, Ripening, Gallery Ilho, Seoul
- 2018 My Painting Shopping Exhibition, Lotte Gallery Gwangbok, Busan
- 2017 Thank You! 2017, Gallery Joeun, Seoul
- 2010 Gallery Hyundai 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Seoul
- 2009 Light of Jeju, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
- 2009 Woljeon Art Prize Winners’ Invitational, Icheon Municipal Museum of Art
- 2007 Good Morning, Nam June Paik, London, UK
- 2007 The Island That Swallowed Myth: Jeju Scenery, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art
- 2007 Seventeen Contemporary Korean Artists, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
- 2004 Memories of Seoul’s Wind, Seogwipo Dreams, Gallery Davinci, Jeju
- 2003 History and Consciousness, Landscape Prints of Dokdo, Seoul National University Museum
- 2002 Seoul, Jeju, and New York II, Cho Gallery, Seoul
- 2002 Finding Aesthetics in Korea, Gana Art Center, Seoul
- 2001 NO CUT, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
- 1998 Gana Art Center Opening Exhibition, Seoul
- 1997 Sound of Zero, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
- 1996 Cities and Art, Seoul Museum of Art
- 1994 Seoul International Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
- 1993 Lee Wal-jong and Kim Byung-jong Two-Person Exhibition, Cheongjak Gallery, Seoul
- 1989 Beijing International Ink Painting Exhibition, Chinese Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
- 1987 Contemporary Korean Painting Invitational, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
- 1986 Centennial of Korean Painting; 100 Korean Painters, Hoam Gallery / Hoam Art Museum, Seoul
- 1986 3rd Asian Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 1984 Contemporary Art Invitational, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
- 1979 Oriental Painters Invitational, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
- 1977 Exhibition of Past National Art Exhibition Prize Winners, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
- 1975–1976 Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Career
- 1979–1990 Professor, Chugye University for the Arts
- 1991 Began working in Seogwipo, Jeju Island
- 2011 Founded the Wal-jong Huyeon Art and Culture Foundation
- 2013 Founded the Wal-jong Art Museum
Awards
- 1974 Minister of Culture and Public Information Award, 23rd National Art Exhibition
- 1983 Art Journalist Award
- 1991 Korean Fine Arts Artist Award
- 2001 Woljeon Art Prize