Lee Jinjoon

Jinjoon Lee FRSA (이진준 born in Masan, South Korea) is a professor and contemporary artist exploring the liminoid experience of utopian space ideologies with new technologies.

After graduating from the Business School of Seoul National University in 2001, he obtained a BFA(2005) and an MFA(2009) in Sculpture from SNU.

Since giving his debut solo exhibition at ARKO Art Centre of Arts Council Korea in 2008, Lee has exhibited at numerous venues worldwide including Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, India International Centre, The Prague National Gallery in the Czech Republic, The National Museum of Bulgaria, Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music in London.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a full-fledged member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS).

Lee's studio is perhaps best known for the public media sculpture They, which was permanently installed at Digital Media City, Seoul in 2010, and works on the architectural design and development of innovative projects for various requests around the world.

Having previously taught at the University of Oxford, he has been appointed a professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and researches on Data-driven Art and Design, Digital Architecture and XR Performance for Future Opera with new technologies like AI at his TX Creative Media Lab.

He was an invited guest artist from ZKM at Karlsruhe, and is currently the founding director of the KAIST Art and Technology Center.

He then went on to pursue a master's degree(2017) in Moving Image(Jane and Louise Wilson) and Design Interaction (Anthony Dunne) at the Royal College of Art in London, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art, and St Hugh's College,University of Oxford.

His doctoral thesis was titled Empty Garden: A Liminoid Journey to Nowhere in Somewhere (2020), which manifested as a 10-meter-long scroll that mixes East Asian garden aesthetics with existentialism, poetry and autoethnographic research addressing a new theoretical perspective on virtual and augmented reality.