Lee Kyu-chul (1948-1994, Incheon) graduated from Hongik University in 1974, majoring in sculpture. In 1975, he left for Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an administrator and videographer for the Vinnell Company in the United States. In 1983, he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, but returned home after three semesters. He had his first solo exhibition, Space and Visual Perception (Kwanhoon Museum of Art, 1988), which he spent time researching alone, and later participated in group exhibitions such as The Triptych of Kim Sung-bae, Kang Ha- jin, and Lee Kyu-chul (Gallery 81-10, 1988) curated by Jung Deok-young, and Photography, 새시좌 Exhibition (Walkerhill Art Museum, 1988) curated by Koo Bohn-chang. He was a lecturer at the Department of Sculpture, Chung-Ang University and the Department of Photography, Seoul Institute of the Arts, until his death in a car accident in 1994. Since then, his works have been presented in major photography exhibitions at Korean museums, including Four Photographic Sculptures (Kumho Museum of Art, 1996), 60 Years of Korean Contemporary Photography: 1948-2008 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2008; Gyeongnam Provincial Museum of Art, 2009), Very Private, Very Public (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2016), and Frame after Frame (Daegu Museum of Art, 2018). His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Moran Art Museum, and Bess Gallery (Nagoya).
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