Seulgi Lee is a South Korean visual artist born in Seoul in 1972 and based in France since 1992. After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she developed a practice spanning sculpture, installation, painting and collaborative craft. Everyday objects, folk expressions and systems of language become geometric structures and saturated fields of colour. Rather than treating vernacular traditions as fixed heritage, Lee works with artisans to test how knowledge shifts through materials, repetition and translation.
Her projects often begin with a phrase or embodied technique. She has collaborated with nubi quilt makers in Tongyeong, basket weavers in Mexico, potters in Morocco and practitioners of Korean dancheong decorative painting. These exchanges connect formal economy with humour, rhythm and collective making. Lee received the Korea Artist Prize in 2020, and her work belongs to institutional collections in Korea and abroad.
In 2026, the Musée Guimet commissioned DAL DARI, The Moon and the Legs, a monumental façade installation shown from May 2026 to February 2027. Her exhibition GORU GORU at Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA in Bordeaux runs from 9 October 2026 to 25 April 2027, bringing together twenty-five years of work in her first large-scale institutional survey in France. It is conceived alongside YOMO JOMO, a solo exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art opening in November 2026.