Jae Hoon Lee awarded Cemeti Art House residency

Jae Hoon Lee will travel to Indonesia in the New Year to take up a two-month residency at the Cemeti Art House before moving to New York for a six-month residency under the International Studio and Curatorial Programme.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee in conversation with curator Justin Paton

2014 Wallace Art Trust Paramount Art Award announced

The 2014 Wallace Art Trust Awards were announced in Auckland last night by the Governor General, Sir Jerry Mateparae. The Paramount Award - a six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme in New York - went to Korean-born, New Zealand-based artist Jae Hoon Lee.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee's winning entry, Dry Valley (2012), duratrans on lightbox

ANTARCTIC CONVERGENCE at the Audio Foundation

Auckland's Audio Foundation presents ANTARCTIC CONVERGENCE  Part 2 this weekend. Curated by Australian sound and intermedia artist Philip Samartzis, it is the second and final evening of presentations of work responding to the uniquely evocative and geophysical attributes of Antarctica. The programme features presentations by Phil Dadson, Jae Hoon Lee, Rosy Parlane and Philip Samartzis. You can catch it at the Audio Foundation on Saturday 13 July, starting at 7.30pm.

Image: Phil Dadson, Terra Incognita, installation view

Rethinking the stories we tell of the future

A new exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery challenges 13 artists from New Zealand and Australia to document a 21st-century in which machines, humans and nature have come together. AMONG THE MACHINES provides a setting to rethink the stories we tell of the future and the kinds of images that will help get us there. Each artist presents two works: one selected by curators Su Ballard and Aaron Kreisler, and the other a new work that creates a response to or counter to the original work. The lineup of artists includes Stella Brennan, Jae Hoon Lee and Ann Shelton. Read more...

Image: Haydon Fowler, The New World Order (12013), video still

21st-Century Collecting at the Adam Art Gallery

Billy Apple, Phil Dadson and Jae Hoon Lee are represented in 21st-Century Collecting at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery. Curated by Christina Barton, the exhibition raises questions about contemporary art practice and the challenges facing those who are its custodians.

Image top to bottom: Billy Apple, From the VUW Collection (2005), Phil Dadson, Aerial Farm (2006) video still, Jae Hoon Lee, Muriwai (2008), digitally manipulated photograph 

FInalists for Asia's largest prize for contemporary art announced

The Sovereign Art Foundation has announced the thirty finalists for this year's Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Jae Hoon Lee is in the lineup of contenders for the US$30,000 prize to be judged by David Elliott, director of the 17 Biennale of Sydney; Emi Eu, director of Singapore Tyler Print Institute; Lars Nittve, director of M+, Hong Kong; Tim Marlow, director of White Cube and Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Becoming, (2002)

Auckland Art Gallery patrons centre stage in a suite of collection-based exhibitions

The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is highlighting the role of patronage in collection-based exhibitions drawing on works gifted by its patrons group and the Chartwell Collection, which is on long term loan to the gallery. The shows include works by a number of Starkwhite artists: Grant Stevens features in Whiz Bang Pop; Phil Dadson, Gavin Hipkins and John Reynolds are in Partner Dance: Gifts from the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, both curated by Natasha Conland; and the evolving downstairs show Toi Aoteroa includes a new section, also curated by Conland, with works by Martin Basher, David Hatcher, Gavin Hipkins and Jae Hoon Lee.
Image: David Hatcher, The Simplest Surrealist Act (Andre Breton), 2002, silkscreen on plexiglass, 2000 x 1430 mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Gavin Hipkins, Dunedin (Landscape), from The Homely series, 1997-2000, C-type colour photograph,  600 x 400 mm collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Phil Dadson, Echo-Logo, 2003, DVD, 7 mins, collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Final Day for Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever closes today at 3.00pm.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Blue Glacier (2012), duratrans on lightbox, 950 x 1330 mm

Finalists for 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize announced

Jae Hoon Lee has been selected as a finalist for the 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. The jury for this year's US$30,000 award is David Elliott, director of the 17 Biennale of Sydney; Emi Eu, director of Singapore Tyler Print Institute; Lars Nittve, director of M+, Hong Kong; Tim Marlow, director of White Cube and Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing.  

Image: Jae Hoon's Ganga View Guesthouse (2011)

This week at Starkwhite

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever continues this week at Starkwhite.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Waiting for your call (2012), video still

This week at Starkwhite

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever continues at Starkwhite to 13 October.
Image Jae Hoon Lee, Blue Glacier (2012), duratrans on lightbox, 995 x 1330 mm

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever opens tonight

Jae Hoon Lee's Antarctic Fever opens tonight at 6pm and runs to 13 October.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Blue Glacier (2012), duratrans on lightbox, 950 x 1330 mm

Coming up at Starkwhite

We are currently installing a new exhibition by Jae Hoon Lee, which includes digitally collaged images from a recent trip to the Antarctic. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 18 September at 6pm.
Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Pressure Ridge (2012)

Final night of Move Towards the Light on Auckland's waterfront

Move Towards the Light, a series of video and laser projects and light sculptures running after dark on the Auckland waterfront, ends tonight at midnight. The lineup of artists includes Jae Hoon Lee, Clinton Watkins and Hector Zamora.
Image: Clinton Watkins' Continuous Ship #1 at Shed 10 Queens Wharf

Artists light up Auckland's waterfront

Over the next few days, visitors to Auckland's waterfront will encounter a series of video and laser projections and light sculptures staged at locations between Brittomart and the Wynyard Quarter. The lineup of artists in Reflect: Move Towards the Light includes Jae Hoon Lee, Clinton Watkins and Hector Zamora. The event runs after dark from 26 to 29 July.
Image: Clinton Watkins' Continuous Ship #1 at Shed 10 Queens Wharf

Jae Hoon Lee in Aotearoa Baroque at MUCA Roma, Mexico City

Jae Hoon Lee's installation Tree Roots is part of El Barroco de Aotearoa at MUCA Roma, Mexico City. Co-curated by Richard Reddaway and MUCA Roma director Gonzalo Ortega, the exhibition runs to February 2012 (closing date yet to be announced).
Image: Installation view of Jae Hoon Lee's Tree Roots at MUCA Roma, Mexico City

Jae Hoon Lee on the frozen continent

Jae Hoon Lee is at Scott Base under the Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellowship Programme. Each year Antarctica New Zealand invites artists to become honorary Arts Fellows and travel to the frozen continent to undertake specific projects that will help raise awareness of the scientific, aesthetic and wilderness values of Antarctica. Lee follows in the footsteps of Phil Dadson who was there in 2003, a visit that culminated in Polar Projects.
Image: Scott Base Antarctica

Jae Hoon Lee bound for Antarctica

Each year Antarctica New Zealand invites artists to become honorary Arts Fellows and travel to Antarctica to undertake specific projects. Jae Hoon Lee is one of four artists invited to travel to the frozen continent this year. The others are musician Dave Dobbyn, photographer Laurence Aberhart and sculptor Joe Sheehan.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Annapurna (2011), archival pigment ink on Ilford paper, 800 x 1200 mm

Jae Hoon Lee and Justin Paton in conversation

Artist Jae Hoon Lee and curator Justin Paton discuss his works in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2011 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Play video

Image: detail from Jae Hoon Lee's installation in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, to 12 July 2011

Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts

The Anne Landa Award exhibition opened last night at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Selected by Christchurch-based curator and author Justin Paton, the artists in the Unguided Tours exhibition lineup (and contenders for the video and new media award of AUD25,000) include Auckland-based artist Jae Hoon Lee.

Here is a short introduction to the show from the AGNSW website:

'Where to'? From a plane halfway round the globe, to a poetic walk through suburban backstreets, to a virtual voyage through a digitally constricted world, the 2011 Anne Landa Award offers a series of 'unguided tours' through some rich imaginative territory. Using video, computer animation, kinetic sculpture and even an immersive game environment, the seven contemporary artists in Unguided Tours explore the lure of other places, the anxieties and pleasures of travel, and the unexpected rewards of getting lost.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Becoming (2002), archival pigment ink on Ilford paper