Minjoo Lee - South Corea
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Minjoo Lee started painting seriously at the high school. She concentrated on Oriental Painting at college.
She is a scholar as she is a painter. She graduated from the most prestigious high school and college of Korea: Kyung-Gui Girls’ High School and Seoul National University. She was evaluated as the best student in both painting and written test from the College Entrance Evaluation Committee of the university. She studied on the scholarly painters of Korea at Seoul National university, graduate school. She took intensive art seminar courses at the University of Michigan, Graduate School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and at Pratt Institute(New York, NY) in Painting and Paper Making. She has had thirty solo exhibitions and more than four hundred group exhibitions in Korea and in other countries including Germany, USA, China, Japan, Russia, Arab emirates, Spain and etc. She has been teaching at universities and has given lectures on Oriental Painting, Art History and Comparative Art.
Minjoo Lee received many awards from Art Competition: Special Prize at Seoul Art Contest; Grand Prize in New Art Competition (Korea); Freeman Alternate's Grant in Vermont Studio Center (USA); International Fan Painting Prize (Japan). She was featured as a ‘Today's Artist’ and was selected in?Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Salon Comparaison and Salon de la Jeune Peinture (France). She also participated in various art exhibitions worldwide: Tokyo Asia Art Exhibition and International Paper Work Exhibition (Japan); Munster City Invitational Exhib! ition and International? Paper Biennale (Germany); Light from the East (Russia); Bangladesh Biennale (Bangladesh); BIAC (Brignol, France). She has been featured many times as one the most creative influential artist on major TV program .art magazines and on newspapers of Korea, New York , Switzerland and etc.?
