Chang-Jin Lee
Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-American visual artist who lives in New York City.[1]
Life and education
Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. She attended Parsons School of Design[2] and earned her BFA from the State University of New York.
Art
Lee's sculptural art Floating Echo, a transparent inflatable Buddha atop a lotus flower, debuted at the Busan Sea Art Festival in Korea in 2011. The 10-foot-high work was presented at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens in 2012[3] and at the Three River Arts Festival at Point State Park in Pittsburgh the following year.[4]
Lee began researching comfort women in 2007.[5] She traveled to seven Asian countries and interviewed survivors of sexual slavery during World War II as well as a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier. She created a film documentary of the subjects recalling their experiences during the war and their aspirations. Her exhibition Comfort Women Wanted opened at South Korea's Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in 2009.[6] The exhibition's title echoes newspaper advertisements soliciting comfort women during World War II. The exhibition recreates a comfort station. It was later exhibited in Bonn, Boston, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, and Taipei.[4][7] Public art billboards from the exhibition were selected for the New York City Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program in 2013.[8]
Lee currently lives in New York City.
References
- ^ "Bio". www.changjinlee.net. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ Utter, Douglas Max (December 18, 2011). "Chang-Jin Lee exhibit at Spaces masters the subtle telling of a horrific secret". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ Otterman, Sharon (October 2, 2012). "A Buddha, Full of Air, Sits Serenely on the Waves". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Thomas, Mary (October 30, 2013). "Chang-Jin Lee exhibition opens at Wood Street Galleries". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ Jacobson, Aileen (December 19, 2014). "World War II Sex Slaves Bear Witness". The New York Times.
- ^ "Comfort Women Wanted". Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ Tablante, Mary (January 1, 2014). "Korean-American Artist Recreates Comfort Women Station". Asian Fortune. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ Brooks, Katherine (November 25, 2013). "The History Of 'Comfort Women': A WWII Tragedy We Can't Forget". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 February 2015.