Juna Lee (b. 1986, South Korea) is a painter based in Seoul. Her work approaches madness as a site where trauma, spirituality, and perception meet, drawing on her life as a neurodivergent person and on a family history shaped by state violence.
Lee borrows images from the margins of history — outsider art, women mystics, psychiatric archives, subcultural imagery — and reworks them through stencils and gestural marks into densely layered, palimpsest-like paintings. She has recently been reinventing the methods of contemporary electronic musicians in painting: art-historical research as digging, the transformation of borrowed images as sound collage.
Lee has held solo exhibitions at WilloW (2024), d/p (2023), and Hakgojae Art Center (2021) in Seoul. Her group exhibitions include SYMBOLIC at Mimesis Art Museum (2026), BVLGARI – Serpenti Infinito at Futura Seoul (2025), and shows in New York, Hangzhou, and Büdelsdorf, Germany. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2018), and an MFA (2015) and BFA (2012) from Ewha Womans University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts at Sungkyunkwan University. She received the Seoul Art Fund in 2018 and 2021.