Hoon Lee

Hoon Lee is a Korean-born artist who mainly creates performance based installations. He earned his MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a Master's degree in ceramic art and industrial design from Seoul National University of Technology. He is currently the coordinator of the Ceramics program at Grand Valley State University's Department of Art and Design in Michigan.  He has several pieces on his website; a few more traditional sculptures, a series where he paints slip on the floor, and a series of broken dishes. Honestly, I don't really quite understand his concept since much of the site is written in Korean. However, in his artist statement he says, "In the work, the clay and human body are not mere objects but rather subjects. That is, both I as an artist, and the clay are subjects and are objects. Concepts on the clay and the human body and the results of these concepts yield my work, and this is shown in the expressional form of performance and installation."