Timothy Hyunsoo Lee

Lives and works in Boston, MA, USA

Artist statement

Artist Biography: Timothy Hyunsoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between rituals of (in)visibility, community and the abstracted, queer body. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. in Neuroscience, Biology and Studio Art from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and his MFA in computational arts from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Lee’s background in laboratory research and emerging technologies ushers in an empirical approach to investigating the materiality and precision in his practice, his interests in legacies of craft, representation, and labor, that is complemented with the existential urgency of growing up between cultures. Timothy’s works have been exhibited at venues such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Studio Museum, The Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University, The YoungArts Foundation Gallery and La Casa Encendida, with a public project with the MTA Arts & Design (New York). He is represented in private and public collections around the world, including Facebook, The Mubadala Corporate Collection, The MTA Arts & Design, The Luciano Benneton Foundation, The Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Basu Foundation for the Arts, Silver Nova cruiser, and Fundacion DOP. Timothy has participated in numerous prestigious fellowships and research-based...

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