Jace Lee (이주은) is a painter based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her practice explores language, materiality, and systems of sense-making in a process similar to translation. She is interested in the biology and neuroscience of vision, and how we perceive and generate meaning from what we see. Her abstract oil paintings negotiate energy, form, and space, drawing inspiration from ecology, the built environment, and her writing practice. Lee graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2021.
Select Exhibits
2025 Beginning at the End, Museum of Creative Human Art at Cuyahoga Valley National Park Gallery, Peninsula, OH
2025 Love is Resistance, Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2024 Birds of a Feather, White Rabbit Gallery, Barberton, OH
2023 Night at the Studios, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2022 All Teeth, Private Offices, Tremont, OH
2022 Rituals, Feinberg Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH
2022 Tiger, Tiger, a Tiger Archive Project with Tony Ingrisano, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH (two-person exhibit)
2022 The Oil Refinery Reeks of Love- Aleatoric Sound and Color, Doubting Thomas Gallery, Tremont, OH (two-person exhibit)
2021 Materials & Media, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2021 A place for everything / and everything in its place, BFA Thesis Exhibit, Reinberger Gallery, OH
2021 The Kids Table, virtual exhibit: www.rejectkids.com/
2020 Handled with Care, virtual exhibit: www.handledwithcareshow.com/
2019 Exhibitionist, Ann and Norman Roulet Student + Alumni Gallery, OH
2019 Spring Show, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
Writing / Publications / Links
2024 “Dream Poem” “3/31/2022 8:27am” “6/10/2022” “7/20/22 dream house” Exacting Clam, p. 83-84, Spring 2024
2022 Tiger, Tiger Exhibit press release http://waterlooarts.org/tiger-tiger/
2022 All Teeth Exhibition at JROC exhibit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkwxPPfdPC8
2021 “to the ocean–” and other poems, Ordinary, a collaborative, queer zine, Summer 2021.
2021 Artwork in interview J’Lyn Chapman by Sarah Minor https://www.full-stop.net/2021/04/28/interviews/sarah-minor/jlyn-chapman/