Claire Sunho Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London and Seoul. Lee’s practice engages with seeing various meanings within one “reality” by questioning acceptable norms. She sees “normal” as what one knows based on the perspective(s) they have rather than being defined in one way or another, thus having multiple meanings at the same time. She often thinks about the ways of “being” and how we exist in the world individually and collectively. Lee experiments with this idea through the concept of “control and surrender” in everyday life settings and suggests new perspectives to look at the familiar. Through the means of rules, logic, and algorithms, she examines psychological complications, human conditions, trauma, and more.
Lee received her BFA degree in Photography and Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (New York, NY, USA) in 2017 and received her MA degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2021. Her recent achievements include a group exhibition at Noorderlicht Photo Festival (Groningen, Netherlands), V.O Curations (London, UK) and Cromwell Place (London, UK), features on ArtDoc Photography Magazine, TOFU Magazine, VOGUE Italia and Musée Magazine, Grand Prix from IMA-Next, and shortlist from Lumen Prize. She recently gave artist talks at Southbank Centre and online both hosted by Arts & Health Hub.
clairesunholee@gmail.com