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Ailyn Lee, Dreaming Jar, 2026: dark framed panel with yellow and pink painted figures, red organic shapes, and a small black handle below.
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International Residency

Ailyn Lee

United States

United States

South Korea

South Korea

Season II, 2026

Image: Ailyn Lee, 'Dreaming Jar', 2026.

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Ailyn Lee. Counting the Wings, 2026. Photographed by Max Yawney. Image description: A wooden stool on a patterned pink rug holds an open wooden cabinet with small objects and a pink ribbon inside, set on a gray gallery floor.
Ailyn Lee, 'Are You Decent?', 2023, Engraved wooden coat rack, stone clay, acrylic, wood stain, epoxy, jute twine, 80x20x15". Image description: A tall wooden coat rack hung with sculpted body parts: a pale face with dark hair, arms holding a cigarette, a bare torso, and legs in dark stockings.
Ailyn Lee, 'Dream Sipper', 2025, Stone clay, wooden stool, fur fabric, gemstone, wooden table leg, wooden mannequin finger, wooden shoe expander, acrylic, string, IV line, glass bottle, and ribbon, 35×20x70". Image description: A small wooden stool with fur trim supports a long sculpted leg ending in a wooden shoe form, with a mask hanging above on a thin line and glass bottle.
Ailyn Lee, 'Last Cigarette', 2025, water soluble pastel, colored pencil, wood stain, nobang silk, drawer handle, lock and key on engraved panel, 16 × 20 × 2". Image description: A dark wooden panel framing a pink-toned drawing of a bed, a figure in bunny ears, a moon in the window, and a heart-shaped lock hanging below.
Ailyn Lee, 'Love Jar', 2026, water-soluble pastel, acrylic, colored pencil, wood stain, drawer handle, lock, wood screw on engraved panel, 16×20×2". Image description: A dark panel with a drawn glass jar glowing orange and filled with red heart shapes floating above a pale figure, with a drawer handle at the bottom.
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Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and video. Rooted in childhood memories of her grandmother’s antique shop in Busan, Lee explores the human body and found objects as vessels of memory, longing, and desire.

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Ailyn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, and video. Rooted in childhood memories of her grandmother’s antique shop in Busan, her work explores the human body and found objects as vessels of memory, longing, and desire. She transforms discarded furniture and curious fragments into uncanny, dreamlike forms. Her ideas emerge organically from the objects she encounters, her dreams, and her daily practice of automatic drawing.

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Ailyn Lee (b. 1994, South Korea) received her MFA in Fine Arts and BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited her work at A.I.R. Gallery, Latitude Gallery, and the Busan International Art Fair, among others. She has completed a residency at ISCP in New York City.

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Exhibitions

Ailyn Lee, Counting the Wings, 2026: an open wooden box holding a small dresser with a pink fleshy figure draped over it, an oval pink form above, and a key hanging below.
International Residency Exhibition

Toward a Sentence

June 5, 2026

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June 16, 2026