Lee Kang-So

Hong Kong | 1943

Lee Kang-So is a Hong Kong Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1943. His work is currently being shown at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tokyo Gallery have featured Lee Kang-So's work in the past.Lee Kang-So's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 134 USD to 380,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 380,000 USD for From an Island-02066, sold at Korea Premier Auction in 2016. Lee Kang-So has been featured in articles for MOUSSE Magazine, Studio International and ArtDaily. The most recent article is How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era written for Hyperallergic in April 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Kang-So Lee, Lee Kangso

From an Island-08011, 2008

acrylic on canvas

181.8×227.3cm

Emptiness-09076, 2009

acrylic on canvas

130.3×162.2cm

From an Island-07206, 2007

acrylic on canvas

162.2×130.3cm

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At Auction

Upcoming Lots

From an Island - 06053

By Lee Kang-So

Seoul Auction

From an Island-02094

By Lee Kang-So

Korea Premier Auction

Recent Auction Results

Cheongmyeong Serenity-17082

By Lee Kang-So

-34%

below mid-estimate

Seoul Auction

From an Island-07240

By Lee Kang-So

-45%

below mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

Emptiness-15016

By Lee Kang-So

Korea Premier Auction

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Current Exhibitions

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s

Hammer Museum

Westwood | Los Angeles | California | USA

Feb 11,2024 - May 12,2024

Past Exhibitions

Lee Kang-So

Tokyo Gallery

Chou-ku | Tokyo | Japan

Feb 24,2024 - Apr 06,2024

Lee Kang-So: Wind / Flow

Locks Gallery

Washington Square | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | USA

Oct 18,2023 - Nov 30,2023

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Articles

How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era

Hyperallergic 09/04/2024

Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.

“Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

MOUSSE Magazine 08/03/2024

“Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” is a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art (silheom misul) and its artists...

The Korean Moment

Studio International 07/03/2024

A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in Korean art. The most compelling is the Hammer Museum’s Only the Young.

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Coverage

“ ..Practicing his own experimental style of expression, free from conventional customs and ideologies, Lee created works in the 70s that are now considered to be the foundation for his paintings and sculptures... ”
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