Chang-Jin Lee is a Korean-born visual artist and lives in New York City. Her multicultural background and experiences are reflected in her investigations of diverse cultural and social issues. Her artworks deal with subjects that include “Comfort Women,” 9/11, gender, identity, individualism, sweatshops & fast fashion, North Korea, religion, Korean seawomen. Her art involves multimedia installation, video, sculpture, drawing, and public art.
She is a recipient of numerous awards including The New York State Council on the Arts Grant, The Korean Ministry of Gender Equality Award, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, Asian Women Giving Circle Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s MCAF & Council Creative Engagement Grant, International Video Art Festival Prize, AHL Foundation Award, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York City Artist Corps Grant, Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship andSocrates Sculpture Park Fellowship.
She has presented nationally and internationally in the USA, Europe, and Asia, including at Queens Museum of Art (New York), The World Financial Center Winter Garden (New York), Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (Korea),Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), Buk Seoul Museum of Art (Korea), Comfort Women Museum (Taiwan), Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), Floating Cinema (Italy), 1a Space Gallery (Hong Kong), Busan Sea Art Festival (Korea), The Museum of Sex (New York), The Chinese American Arts Council (New York), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York), Asian American Arts Centre (New York), Van Brunt Gallery (New York), Elizabeth Heskin Gallery (New York), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), The Bronx River Art Center (New York), Boston Center for the Arts (Boston), Spaces Gallery (Cleveland), Three Rivers Arts Festival (Pittsburgh), and as Public Art at major sites (Times Square, Chelsea, Lincoln Center, etc) in New York City, in collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program.
Her artworks have been reviewed including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time Out NY, The Daily News, Public Art, NY Arts, The Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The World Journal, Metro, NY Press, Tribeca Trib, The Korea Times, The Taipei Times, Washington Journal, San Diego Union Tribune, Dazed & Confused Magazine, The Associated Press, andArt Asia Pacific.
Her artwork received national and international broadcast media attention from NPR’s Art on Air (New York), NY 1 TV (New York), KBS TV News (Korea), Yue-Sai Kan’s World (Shanghai), Tokyo FM (Tokyo), Morning Brew (Hong Kong), SBS TV News (Korea), PTS TV Evening News (Pittsburgh), and The BBC.
She has been invited as a guest speaker including at Columbia University, The Korea Society, The City University of New York, Wellesley College, Brandeis University, Emory University, The University of Arizona, The China Institute,Georgia State University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation, The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, USC Shoah Foundation, UC Riverside, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.
She has participated in artist residencies internationally including Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), Brandeis University (Boston), Youkobo Art Space (Japan), Bamboo Culture International (Taiwan), and Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan).