CHANG JIN LEE
BIOGRAPHY
Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born visual artist based in New York City. Her artworks deal with “comfort women,” 9/11, gender, identity, individualism, sweatshops and globalism, North Korea and nationalism, and religion. She has presented nationally and internationally, including at The Queens Museum of Art (NY), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The World Financial Center Winter Garden (NY), Hauser & Wirth Gallery (NY), The Incheon Women’s Artists Biennale (Korea), The Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), The State Museum of Gulag (Russia), The Comfort Women Museum (Taiwan), 1a Space Gallery (Hong Kong), and The Buk Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). She is a recipient of numerous awards, including The New York State Council on the Arts Grant, The Korean Ministry of Gender Equality Award, The Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, The Asian Women Giving Circle Grant, and The Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship. Her work has been featured in Art Asia Pacific, Public Art, Tim
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Title: "COMFORT WOMEN WANTED," The Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea, 2009
Title: “Floating Echo,” Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, 2012
Title: “Re-creation of a Military Comfort Station,“ The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Korea, 2017