Born in 1967, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Currently a professor of Western painting at Ewha Womans University, College of arts and design, Seoul, Korea
Education
1999 MFA in printmaking, Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Korea
1994 BFA in Painting, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Lee Kwang Ho, gallery2 Joongsun Nongwon, Jeju Island, Korea Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2020 Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2018 Lee Kwang Ho, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2014 Picturing Landscape, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Caress, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea
2011 Touch, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea
2010 Touch, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Lee Kwang-Ho, Daegu MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
2006 Inter-View in Changdong, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
2003 Paintings with Annotations, Hanjeon Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 The Spy, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
2001 Lee Kwang-Ho,Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea
1996 Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Present of Nature, Lotte Gallery Avenuel, Seoul, Korea on Flora and Painting, Tongin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 Botanica, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2017 Friendship: Mentor-Mentee, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Neo-naturalism, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea The Ordinary Amount of Light and Air,Joy of Arts, Seoul, Korea With Companions, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Beyond Representation-Encounter with the Hyperreal World, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea A7,Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea Being in Nature, Museum San, Wonju, Korea 2016 Alma Mater-2, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2015 Same Difference,space bm, Seoul, Korea Realism Interface, Seokdang Museum of Dong-A University, Busan, Korea Illusion and Fantasy,National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Stranger Seen Through Inward Eye,Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Seven Signs, Park Soo Keun Museum, Yanggu, Korea Support SARUBIA 2015,Gallery 3, Seoul, Korea
2014 Royal Jelly, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
2013 Trace of Korean Contemporary Art, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Residing in private places,Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea Manifestation,LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea AMMA UMMA!,India International Centre, New Delhi, India Between Representation and Autonomy, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea Still Life, CSP111 ARTSPACE, Seoul, Korea Made in Hands,Gallery SEIN, Seoul, Korea Dialogue in the moonlight, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea Human, For a while,Culture Factory Osan, Osan, Korea
2012 Korean Eye,Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Chae Yong Sin and Korean Portraits – Ideals and Illusions, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea Manner in Korean Paintings,Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea SHIFT,Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea Im/Pulse to See, Gallery 101, Seoul, Korea
2011 The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Abstract it!, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea Seekers of the Future of Memories, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Fiction & Nonfiction, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
2010 Instinctively,Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea Defense Mechanism, TN Gallery, Beijing, China Biennale+ one – Why Korea Contemporary art Now, Space zoo, Gwangju, Korea The Lamp of the East, Atelier Aki, Seoul, Korea & Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India Busan Biennale- Now Asian Artist, Citizen Hall, Busan, Korea Hyperrealism Painters,Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea
2009 Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic Non-landscape Landscape, Pocheon Art Valley, Pocheon, Korea
2008 Reality – Portraits, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea Beyond Definition: still-life, portrait, landscape, Interalia, Seoul, Korea Fifty- five Contemporary Artists, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Reality in Contemporary Art, Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 On Painting, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Video Killed the Painting Star, Domus Artium 2002 Salamanca, Spain Con-terminal, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea A Complex, Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Where Euclid Walked, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Charge Your Imagination, Gyunggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Korean Reality & Spirit, Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea Window and Light, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea Context & Figure, Daewon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Selected Artist Exhibition for the III edition of the Castellon County Council International Painting Prize, Castellon, Spain New Acquisitions, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Figures in Landscape, Gallery the New Gate East, Seoul, Korea Propose 7,Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea The Truth of Six Rooms, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Face of Our Time, Kimhae Arts & Sports Center, Yun Seul Museum of Art, Kimhae, Korea Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Angel, Gallery Jung, Seoul, Korea
2005 Ryu Yong-moon, Lee Kwang-Ho, Gallery Space Sadi, Seoul, Korea Art & Film, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Scenery look at the eye, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea Read a diary, Gallery Wooduck, Seoul, Korea Seoul Print 2005, Gallery Topohaus, Seoul, Korea
2004 Seam, Gallery Myart, Seoul, Korea
2003 The Void of Representation, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea Trick, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Family, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
2002 One Thousand Eyes, One Thousand Ways, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea Korea Young Artists Biennale 2002, Gallery of Daegu Culture Center, Daegu, Korea The Mystery, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Songeun Art Grand Prix, Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea Visual & Figure, Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea
2001 Young Creation - Seeing, Being Seen, Gallery of Sejong Culture Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 Paintings for Nurturing the Intelligence, Gallery Sabina, Seoul, Korea Convergence and Divergence, Shinsegye Gallery, Incheon, Korea
1999 Painting / Picture, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea The Exhibition of Rhu, Lee, Kim, Gallery Seonam, Seoul, Korea M.F.A. Exhibition, S.N.U. Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 The Art of Painting, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea
1997 Inter-View, Gallery Dukwon, Seoul, Korea 300 Spaces, Gallery Youn, Seoul, Korea The Political Survival of Artists, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition, Tokyo National University, Tokyo, Japan
1996 The Language of Print Exhibition, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea D-22 / Politics outside of Politics, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea Tomorrow's Print Exhibition, Gallery Dansung, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Print Exhibition, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1995 Contemporary Korean Print Competition, Dongbang Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea S.N.U. & Tokyo Nat'l Univ. Joint Drawing Exhibition, Tokyo National University, Japan
1994 Convergence and Divergence, Citizen Hall, Incheon, Korea
Selected Awards
2006
Selected Artists for the 3rd International Painting Prize of the Castellon County Council, Spain
Award of Excellence, Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2005-6 International Artist Studio Program, National Changdong Art Studio, Korea
2003
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation fellowship, Seoul, Korea
1995
Award of Excellence, Contemporary Korean Print Competition, Seoul, Korea
Selected Public and Private Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Government Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea
Government Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyunggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea