Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan is a Korean-born artist, philosopher, and writer who is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in contemporary Asian art. Born in Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea, in 1936, he attended Seoul National University before moving to Japan in 1956, where he studied philosophy at Nihon University. He emerged as the leading theorist and practitioner of the Mono-ha (School of Things) movement, Japan's first internationally acknowledged contemporary art movement, which emphasized the encounter between natural and industrial materials.

Lee Ufan was active born in 1936. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga and Experimental Print movements.

Lee Ufan's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga and Experimental Print traditions 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. Experimental Print: Experimental print is the loose movement-category used to describe the strand of postwar Japanese printmaking that broke decisively with the inherited conventions of sōsaku-hanga to pursue abstraction, mixed media, photographic and material experimentation, and conceptual approaches — a strand that took root in the late 1940s and 1950s, peaked in the 1960s and 1970s, and continues in contemporary Japanese print practice.

Lee Ufan's prints frequently feature abstract, lithograph, urban scenes, seascapes, landscapes.

Original prints by Lee Ufan can be found in collections including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Art Institute of Chicago, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.