Jungjin Lee

b. 1961
South Korea

"I try to make a perfect print, but that is a contradictory and impossible aspiration. There is no ‘perfect,’ there is only what I think is perfect at that moment. Sometimes I make a mistake, by chance, and what comes of that is very unique and thus perfect."

– Jungjin Lee

Available Works
Unseen, #55

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #55, 2024

Archival pigment print
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Unseen, #65

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #65, 2024

Archival pigment print
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Unseen, #67

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #67, 2024

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Unseen, #83

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #83, 2024

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Unseen, #49

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #49, 2024

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Unseen, #10

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #10, 2024

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Unseen, #62

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #62, 2024

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Unseen, #70

Jungjin Lee

Unseen, #70, 2024

Archival pigment print
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Biography

Jungjin Lee’s work forms meditative depictions of her contact with the elemental world, capturing spaces of slow, quiet reflection. Foregoing darkroom editing while creating prints on traditional mulberry paper hand painted with emulsion, Lee transforms image into object with the physicality of her process—each a palpable testament to endurance, patience, and rumination.

Jungjin Lee received her BA in Ceramics From Hongik University before graduating with a Masters in Photography from New York University. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Goeun Museum of Photography (Korea, 2023), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea, 2018), Musee Des Beaux-Art (Switzerland, 2017), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland, 2016), Andrea Robbi Museum (Switzerland, 2013), Santa Fe Art Institute (USA, 2008), The Museum of Photography (Korea, 2002), among others. Her works are held in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (California), Houston Museum of Art (Texas), and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). She has received the 2013 Dong Gang Photography Award (Korea), the 2011 Anonymous Was A Woman Awards (New York, USA), and the 1990 Photography Award from the Camera Club of New York. 

Jungjin Lee currently lives and works in New York.

Exhibitions

Unseen

June 6 – July 7, 2025

Unseen