Seung-taek Lee

Seung-taek Lee was born in 1932 in Gowon, Hamgyeongnam-do (currently a province in North Korea).

Part of a generation that was deeply affected by the Korean War, he was exposed to works by Russian Constructivist and Realist artists at school and was trained in realistic depiction.

As a refugee settled in Seoul, his determination to be an artist of the time was super-ordinary, exploring the possibilities of formless art or site-specific installation works in the 1960s, when no such concept had yet been introduced to the Korean art scene.