Curator

Youngwoo Lee

Lives in Shanghai, Seoul

Yongwoo Lee is an art historian and curator. He was the executive director of the Shanghai Himalayas Museum and the founding artistic director of the Shanghai Project. Lee was the founding director of Gwangju Biennale initiated in 1995, and the president of Gwangju Biennale Foundation. He was the president of the International Biannual Association Press Release (IBA). Lee curated numerous exhibitions, including “Dansaekhwa” (Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice), “Nam June Paik Retrospective” (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul), “Film and Video since 1980s” (Shanghai Himalayas Museum), “The Flower of May” (Gwangju Museum of Art), among others. He was a professor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts at Shanghai University, and of Korea University. He authored books such as “Information and Reality, Nam June Paik, On Video Art”, etc.

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