Chang-Jin Lee

Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-American visual artist who lives in New York City.[1]

Early life

Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea.

Education

Lee attended Parsons School of Design[2] and earned her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase.

Career

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]

Personal life

Lee lives in New York City.

References
  1. "Bio". www.changjinlee.net. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. 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.
  3. Otterman, Sharon (October 2, 2012). "A Buddha, Full of Air, Sits Serenely on the Waves". The New York Times.
  4. Thomas, Mary (October 30, 2013). "Chang-Jin Lee exhibition opens at Wood Street Galleries". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  5. Jacobson, Aileen (December 19, 2014). "World War II Sex Slaves Bear Witness". The New York Times.
  6. "Comfort Women Wanted". Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  7. Tablante, Mary (January 1, 2014). "Korean-American Artist Recreates Comfort Women Station". Asian Fortune. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  8. Brooks, Katherine (November 25, 2013). "The History Of 'Comfort Women': A WWII Tragedy We Can't Forget". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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