The artist’s poetic visual language explores emotion, time, and memory in her U.S. solo debut with the gallery

NEW YORK — May 20, 2025 — Whispers, a solo exhibition by Korean artist Jin Han Lee, opened on May 6 and is currently on view at Gallery Hyundai’s New York Project Space, located in Chelsea, Manhattan. The exhibition runs through June 7, 2025, and marks the inaugural presentation at the gallery’s newly launched New York venue.

Based between Seoul and London, Lee is recognized for her dreamlike canvases that translate subtle emotional states and “untranslatable” moments—those that fall between language, culture, and memory—into a visual lexicon. Following her acclaimed 2024 solo show at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, Whispers brings a new series of introspective, metaphor-rich works to New York audiences.

Highlights include They are There (2025), greeting visitors with a quiet sense of absence and presence, and Midnight Blossom (2025), where nocturnal flowers bloom within invisible time. In A Night of Waiting (2025), the artist visualizes the solitude of longing through moonlit grasses and ethereal florals.

Other works, such as Pong Dang (2025) and Dancing Notes (2025), reflect fleeting sensations and rhythms of nature, continuing Lee’s practice of layering metaphor and emotional resonance. Her familiar motifs—sun, moon, feet, trees—reappear throughout the show in organic arrangements that suggest memory and transformation.

Earlier works like The Real Place (2024) and Buds and Flowers for Two (2024) are also on view, revealing a shift in Lee’s practice from physical intimacy to botanical symbolism. Her newer paintings invite viewers to see through the perspective of a blade of grass, as petals and celestial bodies coexist across a luminous horizon.

With Whispers, Jin Han Lee invites viewers into a contemplative visual space where painting becomes a language of feeling—evoking presence through absence, and stillness through movement.

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