In Conversation with HyunHee Lee

Join Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2024 Residency Winner, Sydney-based, Korean-Australian visual artist, Hyun Hee Lee for insights into her residency experience and award-winning arts practice. Artist Bio: Hyun Hee Lee is a Korean-Australian visual artist whose work traverses the traditional Korean and Western art practices. Her aim is to establish a spiritual and cultural connection with her country of birth. She achieves this by recreating and re-contextualizing traditional rituals, cultural practices and customs in a contemporary context. She has graduated with a BFA (Honours) from the National Art School with an Honours Fine Art Scholarship. Also, she has a MFA (Research) from the UNSW Art and Design. She was awarded the Redgate Residency in Beijing and La cite International des Arts Paris Residency. Also, winner of the Blake Prize for the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award and an acquisition award in JADA. She has had many solo exhibitions in South Korea and Australia and is represented by Artereal Gallery in Sydney and Kara's Gallery in Seoul. Recently she was the winner of the Artist in Residency Prize in the 2024 Sunshine Coast National Art Prize. Light refreshments will be provided.