Juna Lee is an artist who mainly works with acrylic and spray paint, focusing on madness. She believes madness is the holiness embedded in human mentality, which dramatically expresses the transcendental nature of the human mind. To address this, she often works on large-scale paintings that contain complex symbols and expressive bodily gestures within multiple layers. She tries to evoke the awe and chaotic energy that one can feel when one faces human insanity through her painting practices, in which those symbols and gestures are destructively combined on an overwhelming scale.
Lee has had one-person exhibitions in multiple spaces in Seoul, including WilloW ‘The Worship of The Mad Snake’ (2024), d/p ‘I Am Walking In The Dark Woods, But The Stars Do Not Shake’, and Hakgojae Art Center ‘W/O.’ She has had numerous group exhibitions in Seoul, New York, Hangzhou, and Büdelsdorf, Germany.
Lee earned her MFA in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2018), her MFA in Painting at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul (2015), and her BFA in Painting at Ewha Woman’s University (2012). She received Seoul Art Funds in 2018 and 2021.