Timothy Hyunsoo Lee

“I really wanted to highlight how we are all in different parts of Boston, yet we remain connected to the shared experience,” Lee said. “Kintsugi became a really great narrative with the idea that we’re not separated, we’re not bound by these borders; that we’re all together.”

Born in Seoul and raised primarily in Queens, New York, Timothy Hyunsoo Lee creates work that explores his identity as Korean-American and the cultural displacement he experienced during childhood. While studying neuroscience and biology at Wesleyan University, art became an outlet for Lee to process his anxieties and childhood traumas. Although he ultimately decided to pursue studio art, his years of scientific training heavily influenced his artistic language. This is illustrated by the DNA-like forms present in Lee’s watercolors, which are composed of what he refers to as “cells.”

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee is an korean-american artist based in Brooklyn. Inspired by themes of psychological disorders, spirituality and religion, his troubling sculptures mix several artistic techniques like realistic paintings, folding-paper and cut. To discover.

The personal and creative story of Timothy Hyunsoo Lee is so special that he could be a fictional character created by Paul Auster or Haruki Murakami. The newspaper El Mundo describes all those perceptions colected at Hyunsoo’s studio in Carabanchel, Madrid.

Gold-covered nails, neon signs, watercolor—the spectrum of materials that artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee employs reflects the young artist’s fluency across mediums. In his new show at Madrid’s Sabrina Amrani Gallery, titled “No one dies alone,” and in a current presentation at the India Art Fair, the artist moves deftly between a range of media to address such timeless themes as death and the possibility of spiritual transcendence.

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee was in his final year of pre-med studies at Wesleyan University in 2012 when he realized his life’s work was in the studio rather than the clinic.

What happens when we die? According to the book by the English philosopher Simon Critchley: "Very Little… Almost Nothing". This feeling of nothingness that lurks over the human existence inspired Korean artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee to create artworks for his No One Dies Alone exhibition.

Thibaut Poutrel discovered Timothy Hyunsoo Lee at ArtBo, the contemporary art fair in Bogotá. The artist showed a surprising work, made of copper and Korean cloth, which evoked a mountainous and nocturnal landscape, with rounded and dreamy shapes. The piece recalls the classical art of the Orient, in a resolutely contemporary composition and technique.