Known for a distinct style influenced by analog television screens, Yoora Lee explores quotidian moments through recreating images from the television and the internet. Using wavering, horizontal brush strokes to mimic video tape distortions and glitches, Lee explore themes of nostalgia, voyeurism, intimacy, and self-reflection. Inspired by cinema, Lee’s subjects and compositions often stem from hazy memories that she alters and exaggerates to emulate scenes in a drama.

Yoora Lee was born in 1990 in South Korea and lives in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in Painting from Gachon University in South Korea (2015), a post-baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2017), and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2020).

She has mounted solo exhibitions at T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy (2022), Another Place in New York City, NY (2022), and Jude Gallery in Chicago, IL (2021).

Lee has participated in group shows such as High Voltage 4 at Nassima Landau in Tel-Aviv, Israel (2023); Briefly Gorgeous at PhillipsX in Seoul, Korea (2023); Ripe at Harper’s in Los Angeles, CA (2023); DISEMBODIED at Nicodim in New York City, NY (2023); Minutiae at Galerie Mighela Shama in Geneva, Switzerland (2022); and others.

Her work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, It’s Nice That, Booooooom Magazine, Artmaze Magazine, and elsewhere.