ARTIST

M'cube

이경하

M’cube는 새로움에 대한 열정으로 실험적 영역을 탐구하고 그 한계에 도전하는 영아티스트를 발굴ㆍ지원하는 프로그램입니다.
M’cube is a program to discover and support young artists who explore experimental territories with a passion for novelty and challenge their limits.

ABOUT

Lee Kyoungha 이경하

Educations

The Department of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Korea, BFA

The Department of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Korea, MFA

Korean literature& language, Ewha women’s University, Korea, BA

Solo Exhibitions

2023 GalleryMEME

2020 GalleryMEME

2014 Apr, Salon de H gallery

2012 Oct , Ujung art center

2011 Aug , Pyogallery south

2009 Jan , Gallery LaMer,

Mar extended exhibition, The street gallery, GS gangnam tower, Seoul

Group Exhibitions

2019

gallery GURU

<11 Pleasures>, gallery chung

gwangju lotte gallery

2018

Baekhak museum

Lee Kyoungha, Lee Manna Duo show, Make gallery

Lee Kyoungha, Kim Jeimin Duo Show, GalleryMEME

Known Ulgiro

2017

Seoul museum

superior gallery

2016

< SOMA Drawing: Mindfull, Mindless>, SOMA Museum

Miboo Art center

2015

Boklim building

Ilwoo space

Pyogallery L.A.

nonbat gallery

GalleryMEME

2014

duo exhibition, gallery fourwalls

duo exhibition, gallery chung

2nd new artist project, 63 Sky art museum

2013

janghung art park

gold coast art gallery, Gold coast, Austrailia

Hangil gallery

artspaceH

gallery eppoch

2012

Ujung gallery

Bookhouse gallery

bentz auto gallery

2011

gallery art factory

st party> ujung gallery

126st. mansion

white block gallery

Hyundai Motors&Pyogallery

vit gallery, Seoul

2010

guemsan gallery

Hakgojae gallery

duo exhibition, Gallery Eon, Seoul

Kepco Plaza gallery, Seoul

trio exhibition, Gallery LVS, Seoul

2009

IYAP 2009 IYAP2009(Interalia young artist promotion,

inter-alia art company, Seoul

Leekyoungha&Oheunjung ,duo exhibition, Pyogallery Seoul

Sempyo Space, Icheon, Kyungkido

Avenual Lotte Art gallery, Moonwha ilbo gallery, Seoul

Awards

2013 Selected for Exhibition ‘Sky Art New Artist Project’

2012 Janghung artelier residency

2011 Ujung residency

2010 Soma drawing center archive registry artist

2010 Pyo gallery new&rising artist award prizewinner

Collections

National museum of modern & contemporary art, korea

Eulji Universiy Medical Center

POSRI, Samsungdong, Seoul

Rafarge halla cement

Tomato Mutual Savings Bank

Artist’s Note

There is a fear I sometimes face as I live on. As I sit on the sea shore alone gazing at the waves endlessly breaking against the land, or when I suddenly discover that there is no one around me in a summer forest and I hear all sorts of noises from nature amidst the silence, I feel this fear. When I was very young, there was a time when I was playing in the sea floating on a rubber tube. There was this moment that I had went a little further out, and could see nothing but water around me. Thinking that no one would know even if I just disappeared, I rushed back to the beach shivering in terror. I wanted to paint the waves, which had completely overwhelmed me at the time.

I wanted to paint the waves as an endlessly moving and alive, but never changing existence, rather than something with specific shape, direction and temporality. The characteristics I wanted to reveal could only be represented by extracting a certain essential aspect of the object called waves. It seemedthat if I represented the waves with a certain kind of blue, or depicted them realistically, they would no longer move, but just become fixed in the appearance of an instant. My objective was not to paint the waves at a particular beach of the East Sea, but to paint the waves themselves, which have been there since the beginning of Earth. Charcoal was the appropriate material to reveal such intention. The image created by endlessly repeating the process of rubbing on and erasing acquired the properties of drawing, making the object less stationary. Moreover, by eliminating colors, I thought I could capture the more essential appearance of the subject, making particular aspects of time or concreteness disappear. I use charcoal to draw the spaces forming the backgrounds of my works, such as the sea, grass fields, forests, sky, trees and land. The work is then completed by arranging human figures or objects on this background with color painting, to create a certain narrative. The stories I create through the positions, sizes and acts of the human figures in the works have gradually changed since 2008.

The people in the paintingsblankly gaze at gigantic nature,appearing as little dots on a vast land spreading out endlessly, or silently walk along their given paths, undaunted by the fierce storm. Sometimes I would paint construction workers building something on the background of nature, or paint workersapplying a very artificial colors to an empty space filled with clouds. By creating a sense of difference on the picture-plane, made by the clash between the human figures and nature, I intended to show the stark contrast between the artificial and natural, the finite and infinite, eternity and moment. Since 2014, I have minimized the contrasting effect of humans and nature, significantly reducing the size of the human figures, while increasing the proportion of the background. Rather than striving to make the figure stand out against the background space, I let itget absorbed in the space. The figures were very small, but portrayed to have individuality and each engaged in his/her activity.I wanted to show even if life has given itself to gigantic cosmic order and the flow of time, the life of an individual goes on with its own independent narrative, no matter who it is.

Recently I have been paying attention to the grass sprouting from the land, growing, disappearing and growing back. Rather than theindividual grass leaves themselves, it was the endless loop of circulationthat touched my heart—the way new sprouts would emerge from the soil, grow for a while, and then become dry pieces of straw. For me, nature is eternity, immortality and infinity. By making a barren ground and coloring in new sprouts and dead leaves, I wanted to reveal the immortal energy being repeated eternally in nature and the universe. The grass symbolizes humans and all finite things that disappear. But as they are endlessly reborn, they will eventually become one with the nature in the background, which is immortal.

Lee Kyoungha 이경하 

2009 서울대학교 서양화과 대학원 졸업 
2005 서울대학교 미술대학 서양화과 졸업
2000 이화여자대학교 국어국문학과 졸업 

Solo exhibition 
2023  <땅을 보고 걷는 사람>, 갤러리밈
2020  <공터>, 갤러리밈
2014  <보통의 풍경>, 살롱드에이치 갤러리
2012  <부표들>, 유중갤러리
2011  , 표갤러리 사우스
2009  , Gallery LaMer, 신진작가 창작지원전시 
       ,The street gallery, GS 강남타워 

Group exhibition
2022  <경계조건>, mM아트센터
2021  <포스트 휴먼 앙상블>, 아시아전당 ACC
2021  <식물이 있는 풍경>, 이경하, 노경희 2인전, 서울대학교 병원 대한외래갤러리
2021  <풀, 잎>, 김제민, 이경하 2인전, 청화랑
2019  <검은 회화전> 갤러리 구루지
2019  <11가지 즐거움>, 청화랑
2019  <마음산책>, 광주 롯데 갤러리
2018  <광주신세계미술제 선정작가전>, 광주 신세계갤러리
2018  <몽테소사이어티: 오늘을 그리다>, 백학미술관
2018  <벽과 땅>, 이경하, 이만나 2인전, 메이크갤러리
2018  <이 바닥에서 살아남기> 김제민, 이경하 2인전, 갤러리밈
2018  , 아는 을지로
2017  <회화에서 회화로>, 시안미술관
2017  <공감의 공간, 위로를 나누다>, 슈페리어갤러리
2017  <까페-소사이어티>, 서울미술관
2016  <소마 드로잉:무심>, 소마드로잉센터
2016  <부산한 전시>, 미부아트센터, 부산
2015  , 복림빌딩
2015  , 일우스페이스
2015  , Pyogallery L.A.
2015  , 헤이리 논밭갤러리
2014  , 이경하,권인경2인전, 갤러리포월스
2014  , 이경하,임태규2인전, 청화랑
2014  <낯선공간, 낯선풍경>, 63스카이아트 미술관 뉴아티스트 프로젝트 전시
2013  , Gold coast city gallery, Austrailia
2013  , 장흥아트파크
2013  북하우스갤러리 
2013  , artspaceH
2013  ,갤러리 에뽀끄
2012  <六感>展, 유중갤러리
2012  展, 북하우스 갤러리, 헤이리
2011  <어떤 연극2>展, 아트팩토리
2011  <경계집단>展 인터알리아 아트스페이스
2011  ,유중갤러리 개관전
2011  展, 126st. mansion 
2011  展, white block gallery, 헤이리
2011  展 현대자동차&표갤러리, 부산 
2011  展, 빛갤러리, 사간동
2010  展, 금산갤러리, 헤이리
2010  <직관intuition> 展, 학고재 갤러리
2010  展, 이경하, 박상희 2인전, Eon gallery
2010  展, 한전아트갤러리 공모당선전
2010  , 이경하, 신소영, 김미정 3인전, gallery LVS
2009  , 이경하&오은정 2인전, Pyogallery Seoul
2009  展인터알리아 아트스페이스 
2009  <이인이각>展, 샘표 스페이스 
2009  <삼각형 드라마코드-현실과 이상의 간극>展,  애비뉴엘 롯데 아트 갤러리, 문화일보 갤러리 
 
수상 및 선정
2019 광주신세계미술제 1차 선정작가
2013  63스카이아트미술관 New Artist Project 신진작가 선정. (주)한화63시티
2012  장흥아뜰리에 입주작가
2011  유중재단 레지던시 입주작가
2009  Soma drawing center 4기 archive등록작가 선정
2009  IYAP(Interalia young artist promotion)
2009  New&Rising Artist Award by Pyo gallery seoul prizewinner
 
작품소장
국립현대미술관
Goldcoast city gallery, Austrailia
을지병원
라파즈 한라시멘트
포스코 경영연구소​
갤러리밈

SELECTED WORK

EXHIBITIONS