Biography
Kyong Won Lee is an American artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of Basic Training Program B in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The MI-LAB program provides international artists with intensive instruction in traditional mokuhanga tools and materials under Japanese master printers, offering immersive training in the water-based woodblock printing technique. Lee's participation in the Echizen program reflects the growing international interest in mokuhanga as a contemporary art medium, with artists from diverse backgrounds seeking to learn the traditional Japanese printmaking methods preserved in Japan's historic papermaking regions.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Kyong Won Lee is an American artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of Basic Training Program B in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The MI-LAB program provides international artists with intensive instruction in traditional mokuhanga tools and materials under Japanese master printers, offering immersive training in the water-based woodblock printing technique. Lee's participation in the Echizen program reflects the growing international interest in mokuhanga as a contemporary art medium, with artists from diverse backgrounds seeking to learn the traditional Japanese printmaking methods preserved in Japan's historic papermaking regions.
Kyong Won Lee's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.