Jin Lee (born 1961) is a photographer and educator who has exhibited throughout the United States. Her work is engaged in "the sensuous experience of a place. Her photographs are in part a highly personal investigation of the city where she lives and the surrounding natural environments."[1]
Jin Lee | |
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| Born | 1 March 1961 Seoul, Korea |
| Nationality | American / Korean |
| Education | Wellesley College |
| Known for | Photography |
| Movement | Landscape photography |
Academic career
editJin Lee earned a BA (1983) in political science at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earned an MFA (1988) in photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Professor of photography at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.[1][2]
Exhibitions
editLee works in clearly defined but conceptually related projects that focus on the subtle but moving affect of Midwestern landscapes, both natural and manmade. For example, the Prairie project turns native grasses into towering specimens by shooting them from a low angle, whereas the Small Mountains project captures the relative grandeur of road salt stockpiles used by the Department of Transportation to de-ice winter roads. A third project, Great Water, is an ongoing chronicle of Lake Michigan shot from the same exact vantage point over a period of five years.
Lee has mounted solo museum exhibitions at The Chicago Cultural Center twice (2001 and 2021), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2003), the Sioux City Art Center, Iowa (2004), The Notebeart Nature Museum, Chicago (2009), and the Illinois State University Galleries, Normal (2010). Her ongoing project, Train Views, chronicles scenes from her commute between Chicago and Normal, Illinois, since 2012. She is represented by Devening Projects in Chicago.[3][4][5]
Awards
edit- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, (2005)[6]
- Creative Time Artist Grant, (2002)[7]
- MacDowell Colony Artist Fellow, (2001)[8]
- Yaddo Artist Fellow, (1998)[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "JIN LEE – Museum of Contemporary Photography". Mocp.org. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "Faculty & Staff – College of Fine Arts – Illinois State". Finearts.illinoisstate.edu. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "Home". jinleephotography.net.
- ^ "Train View – Devening Projects". Deveningprojects.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "Jin Lee – Devening Projects". Deveningprojects.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "JIN LEE". Gf.org. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "CREATIVE TIME". Creativetime.org. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "Jin Lee". Jinslee.net. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ "Visual Artists". Yadoo.org. 11 September 2016. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 31 October 2017.