Featured Work IL LEE
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    IL LEE, BL-120, 2011, ballpoint pen on canvas, 82 x 117 inches (208.3 x 297.2 cm)
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    IL LEE, WB-111, 2011, acrylic and oil on canvas, 32 x 21 inches (81.3 x 53.3 cm)
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    IL LEE, WR-103, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
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    IL LEE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010-2011.
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    IL LEE, BR-001, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 x 26 inches (91.4 x 66 cm)
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    IL LEE, WBL-002, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 26 x 22 inches (66 x 55.9 cm)
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    IL LEE, IW-1010, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 14 x 14 inches (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
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    IL LEE, WR-101, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
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    IL LEE, BL-094, 2008, ballpoint pen on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
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    IL LEE, BL-115, 2008, ballpoint pen on paper, 43 x 56 1/2 inches (109.2 x 143.5 cm)
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    IL LEE, BL-105, 2008, ballpoint pen on canvas, 28 x 43 inches (71.1 x 109.2 cm)
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    IL LEE, BK-002, 2006, ballpoint pen on canvas, 80 x 127 inches (203.2 x 322.6 cm), San Jose Museum of Art, 2007.
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    IL LEE, Untitled 1504, 2004, ballpoint pen on paper, 60 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (153.7 x 105.4 cm)
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    IL LEE, Untitled 303, 2003, ballpoint pen on paper, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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    IL LEE, Untitled 801, 2001, ballpoint pen on paper, 60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
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    IL LEE, Untitled 978 W, Untitled 978 I, and Untitled 978 Q (1997-98), San Jose Museum of Art, 2007.
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    IL LEE, SMC-097, 2009, ballpoint pen on paper, 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (34.3 x 34.3 cm)
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    IL LEE, SBK-093, 2009, ballpoint pen on paper, 20 x 18 1/2 inches (50.8 x 47 cm)
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    IL LEE, SBLBK-084, 2008, ballpoint pen on paper, 15 x 12 inches (38.1 x 30.5 cm)
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    IL LEE, SBK-085, 2008, ballpoint pen on paper, 20 x 13 inches (50.8 x 33 cm)
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    IL LEE, SBK-082, 2008, ballpoint pen on paper, 10 x 7 7/8 inches (25.4 x 20 cm)
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    IL LEE, SW-096, 2006, ballpoint pen on paper, 16 x 15 inches (40.6 x 38.1 cm)
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    IL LEE, SW-014, 2004, ballpoint pen on paper, 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (24.1 x 39.4 cm)
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    IL LEE, SBK-092, 2009, ballpoint pen on paper, 14 x 19 inches (35.6 x 48.3 cm)

Recent Exhibition: IL LEE: Monoprints, Editions and Paintings

Critically acclaimed and widely exhibited, IL Lee's innovative and historically grounded ballpoint pen work has been the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art and solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, the Vilcek Foundation in New York, and the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas. His work has, also, been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.