{"product_id":"kyungseo-lee-sphinx","title":"131. Kyungseo Lee - Sphinx","description":"\u003cp\u003e2021\u003cbr\u003eOil on canvas\u003cbr\u003e15 x 15 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyungseo Lee is a Korean artist whose work explores the conflicting emotions and values that shape contemporary human experience. Through erotically charged imagery, Lee examines the ambiguities surrounding body image, desire, intimacy, and emotional contradiction. Her paintings inhabit unstable territory — between celebration and objectification, attraction and discomfort, right and wrong — deliberately refusing resolution in favour of sustained tension. Rather than directing the viewer toward a fixed moral position, the work invites self-reflection, asking audiences to confront their own responses, assumptions, and complicities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2021–2023). She previously studied both Painting and Visual Communication Design at Hongik University, Seoul (2014–2020), and undertook an illustration exchange programme at Paris College of Art, Paris (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected exhibitions include \u003cem\u003ePhosphenes\u003c\/em\u003e at Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); \u003cem\u003eDemian\u003c\/em\u003e at Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland (2024); and \u003cem\u003eLove Me\/Love Me Not\u003c\/em\u003e at LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, Lee won ART MATTERS 15 at Galerie Biesenbach and was longlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize and the Jackson's Art Prize. She was also longlisted for The Waverton Art Prize in 2022 and was a semifinalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer work is held in a private collection by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nike.com\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003eNike\u003c\/a\u003e in Seoul, Korea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AOAP Projects","offers":[{"title":"No insurance (+£0)","offer_id":57733095555446,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"UK insurance (+£15)","offer_id":58013651992950,"sku":null,"price":615.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Europe insurance (+£25)","offer_id":57987663692150,"sku":null,"price":625.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Rest of World insurance (+£35)","offer_id":57987663724918,"sku":null,"price":635.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2714\/0060\/files\/131.KyungseoLee-Sphinx.jpg?v=1779285410","url":"https:\/\/aoapprojects.com\/products\/kyungseo-lee-sphinx","provider":"AOAP Projects ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}