Haejung Lee is a Korean artist currently based in Chicago, United States, whose work focuses on storytelling that connects cultural memory, material experience, and imagination.

Central to her practice is an attention to material intelligence, especially with paper. Lee explores the essence of paper as a neutral surface that absorbs, resists, stains, and hardens over time. Her work functions as a mode of sensemaking and translation. By transforming cultural memory and suppressed emotional layers into tactile and spatial experiences, she creates reflective spaces where material itself carries the tension between life and dissolution.

In her art, the primary sources of inspiration revolve around three key words: reincarnation, mythology, and identity.

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