JooLee Kang’s artistic practice is rooted in the history of drawing as an act of collecting, classifying, and recording observations. Working primarily with ink on paper, her single, short line does not function as a fixed signifier. Rather, it operates as a relational field—overlapping, repeating, and penetrating itself—continually recalibrating density and directional force. Through these accumulative processes, her works generate hybrid formations and emergent narratives structured by proliferation, collision, and sedimentation.
Through painting and installation, Kang explores ways of thinking that dissolve the boundaries between nature and civilization, organic and inorganic, past and present, as well as reality and illusion. The title of her artist’s book, No Arrow of Time, metaphorically reflects her working process, where time does not move in a single direction but exists as moments—where labor that seems to expend infinite time intersects with instantaneous choices. Ultimately, her practice constructs a self-sustaining visual and conceptual world, grounded in the belief that this inward-facing inquiry simultaneously expands not only the field of the self, but also a broader understanding of the surrounding world.
JooLee Kang graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Duksung Women’s University. She was awarded the Artist Award by the Massachusetts Cultural Council(USA) and was selected as the Korean representative for the Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence program(UK).
Her solo exhibitions held at The Reference(Korea, 2026), Space WillingNDealing(Korea, 2025), Gallery NAGA(USA, 2024), Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery at Cuesta College(USA, 2023), Kim Hee Soo Art Center at Soorim Cultural Foundation(Korea, 2021), Gallery Chosun(Korea, 2021), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art(Korea, 2018), Centro Cultural Coreano en Espana(Spain, 2018), and Museum of Art at University of New Hampshire(USA, 2014). She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art(Korea, 2025), Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale(Korea, 2021), Museum of Art at Seoul National University(Korea, 2021), SeMA Storage at Seoul Museum of Art(Korea, 2020), Changwon Sculpture Biennale(Korea, 2020), Amorepacific H.Q.(Korea, 2019), Suwon Museum of Art(Korea, 2018), Fitchburg Art Museum(USA, 2018), and Taipei Fine Arts Museum(Taiwan, 2017).
Kang has collaborated with brands and institutions such as Amorepacific Sulwhasoo, Samsung The Frame TV, Hyundae Munhak Publishing, and Miramar Shopping Centre in Hong Kong. Her works are included in the public collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea: Art Bank, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Facebook Korea, Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University, and Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.