
Jennie Jieun Lee (b. 1973 Seoul, South Korea) has challenged the conventions of ceramic sculpture for over a decade. Embracing the inherent vulnerability of the medium that is often tamed by its practitioners, Lee fires her works in various states of uprightness and collapse, and pours copious amounts of glaze on them. Disrupting ceramic’s historical association with controlled domesticity, Lee creates busts, vessels, and paintings that oscillate between the deliberate and accidental, and the decorative and distorted.
Lee earned her MFA from California State University Long Beach and a studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the recipient of several grants including Art Matters Foundation Grant (2019), The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2017), and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2016). Her work has been exhibited internationally, and recent exhibitions include Cooper Cole, Toronto; AF Projects, Los Angeles; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Martos Gallery, New York; The Pit, Glendale; and Marlborough Chelsea Viewing Room, New York. Lee currently teaches ceramics at New York University and lives and works in Sullivan County, New York, USA.
Jennie Jieun Lee
Marie, Martos Gallery
Marie, 2022
Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Jennie Jieun Lee
Candyland 1981
Candyland 1981, 2015
Glazed stoneware, underglaze pencils
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Ice Cream in Bed
Ice Cream in Bed, 2015
Glazed stoneware, glass, underglaze pencils
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Lost at Sea
Lost at Sea, 2015
Glazed stoneware, glass, underglaze pencils
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Oil-T-zones
Oil-T-Zones, 2015
Glazed stoneware, glass
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Sleighing into Tree
Sleighing into Tree, 2015
Glazed stoneware, glass, underglaze pencils
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Untitled No. 16
Untitled No. 16, 2016
Porcelain slipcast, glaze, underglaze pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, 2017
Slipcast stoneware, glaze
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Untitled No. 30
Untitled No. 30, 2016
Stoneware slipcast, glaze, underglaze pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Stretch
Stretch, 2016
Slipcast porcelain, glaze
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Bear
Bear, 2016
Slipcast porcelain, glaze
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Hell on Earth
Hell on Earth, 2021
Glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Transplants
Transplants, 2021
Glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Signs
Signs, 2021
Glazed porcelain, stoneware, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Some Velvet Zoom Room
Some Velvet Zoom Room, 2021
Glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Anenomes and Sweetpeas
Anenomes and Sweetpeas, 2021
Glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Rocket 8pm
Rocket 8pm, 2021
Glazed porcelain, pencils, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Low and high static
Low and high static, 2021
Glazed porcelain, pencils, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Cut Flower Farm
Cut Flower Farm, 2021
Glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Vessel 1
Vessel 1, 2021
Wheel thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Vessel 2
Vessel 2, 2021
Wheel thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Vessel 3
Vessel 3, 2021
Wheel thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Vessel 4
Vessel 4, 2021
Wheel thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil
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Jennie Jieun Lee
Vessel 5
Vessel 5, 2021
Wheel thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil
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