LEE KwangHo

Kwangho Lee has always enjoyed making things with his hands, which comes from living with his grandparents in the countryside when he was little. He remembers watching his grandfather making all sorts of tools out of seemingly everyday things found in and around the house and nearby woods. The house was full of his grandfather’s handcrafted inventions, and this became the inspiration for lee’s future work as an artist and designer. In remembrance of his grandfather (who passed away in 2005), Kwangho lee began to find, look and approach things in the way his grandfather would have done; giving new meaning and function to everyday objects and materials.
He has shown his work at Commissaires, Johnson Trading Gallery, Victor Hunt, Karena Schuessler, Clear Gallery & Edition, Gallery Seomi; participated in group projects and international exhibitions such as Design Miami/, Design Miami/ Basel, and Design Days Dubai.
His work is kept as a permanent collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and his work has been featured in many major design publications worldwide.

LEE KwangHo 
Born in    1981, Guri, Korea

EDUCATION
2007    B.F.A, Hongik university, Fine arts department of metal art & design, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2013    Kwangho Lee, Design Museum – de sign de, Osaka, Japan
2012    Medium, Clear Edition & Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011    Kwangho Lee, Karena Schuessler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010    Life Like Design, Victor Hunt, Brussels, Belgium
Extension, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
2008    Like a Forest of Wire, Commissaires, Montreal, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    Young Craftsman of the Year, Yeol Hanok, Seoul, Korea
2013    Funiture 2013,Johnson Trading Gallery, New York, USA
New Wave, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
DNA, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2012    Design Miami/ 2012 – Johnson Trading Gallery, Miami, USA
The Threads that Bind Us, Plus Design Gallery, Milan, Italy
Design Days Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2011    Design Miami/ 2011 – Johnson Trading Gallery, Miami, USA
Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Gwangju, Korea
Superba, If Chen, Los Angeles, USA