Lee Ufan is a painter, sculptor, writer, and philosopher who is widely recognized for his unconventional artistic processes which emphasize the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the spaces that they inhabit. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s as a leading practical and theoretical proponent of the avant-garde Mono-ha (Object School) with Nobuo Sekine, Takamatsu Jirō, and Kishio Suga. Being part of the first Japanese contemporary art movement to gain international recognition, Mono-ha utilized raw physical materials that had been minimally manipulated, which was representative of rejecting Western ideas, and emphasized the relationships between materials and perceptions rather than expression or intervention. In 1991, Lee began his Correspondance paintings, consisting of works that featured one or two grey-blue brushstrokes made of oil and crushed stone pigment applied to a large white surface. His equally minimal sculpture series, Relatum, consisted of one or more light-colored round stones and dark, rectangular iron plates. The dialectical relationship between the brushstroke and canvas is echoed in the relationship between the stone and iron plate. In Lee's installations, the core of his practice is occupied space and empty space, which is seen through untouched and engaged elements, representing the doing, non-doing, and the connection between the painted and the unpainted.



Cahiers d'Art

Kamakura

Paris

Praemium Imperiale

La Biennale de Lyon

Lyon

Venice Biennial

Venice

Gwangju Biennial

Gwangju

Shanghai Biennial

Shanghai

The Biennale of Sydney

Sydney

Sao Paolo Biennial

São Paulo

Biennale de Paris

Berlin

Art Berlin

Seoul

Gallery Hyundai

Tokyo

Tokyo Gallery + Btap

Beijing

Hive Center For Contemporary Art

London

Lisson Gallery

New York City

Blum & Poe

Kukje Gallery

Los Angeles

Pace Gallery

Gladstone Gallery

Hakgojae Gallery

Yvon Lambert Gallery

Newlyn

Newlyn Art Gallery

Annely Juda Fine Art

Scai The Bathhouse

Galerie Kamel Mennour

Kaikai Kiki Gallery

Salzburg

Thaddaeus Ropac

Madrid

Galería Elvira González

Milan

Gió Marconi

Abu Dhabi

Louvre Abu Dhabi

Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria

Mori Art Museum

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul

Power Station of Art

Bloomfield Hills

Cranbrook Art Museum

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

Bilbao

Guggenheim Bilbao

Brooklyn Museum

Grand Palais

Metz

Centre Pompidou Metz

The Jewish Museum

MoMA

Vienna

Kunsthalle Wien

National Art Center

National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

Otterlo

Kröller-Müller Museum

Tate Modern

Cambridge

Museum Of Cambridge

Köln

Museum Ludwig

Centre Pompidou

Liverpool

Tate Liverpool

Portland

Portland Art Museum

Santa Monica

Santa Monica Museum of Art

Frankfurt am Main

Städel Museum

Humlebaek

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Leeum Samsung Museum of Art

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Toyota

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

Zürich

Kunsthaus Zürich

Washington

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Serpentine Galleries

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Jeu De Paume

Lee Ufan

Sèvres

Manufacture Nationale De Sèvres

Seoul National University

Untitled (I)

Untitled (VI)

Untitled (V)

Untitled (IV)

Untitled (II)

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