Minjae Lee a.k.a GrenoMJ
Born 1989. Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Worked with
2011 E.N.I(Croatia) Album Cover & illust
2011 DenAri of Sweden
2011 Epicase of South Korea
2012 UltraEar of USA
2012 Street Art Project from Castro of Israel
2012 CaseMate of USA
2012 Snupped of Singapore
2013 Caseable
2013 The KASE
2013 White Studio of Russia
2013 Album Cover For Anomie Belle
2014 WaterPlus Campaign from ElevenPlus
2014 Fashion King Korea 2 of SBS in South Korea
2015 iCanvas
2015 Art Licensing Company
2016 Watsky Album Cover
2017 Mural project of Westminster High School, LA
Exhibitions
2011 - Epicase, Nseoul tower
2012 - Castro"Street Art Project", TelAviv
2013 - Notefolio "Small Wave", Seoul
2013 - "Immerse Yourself" ,Tokyo
2013 - "Artworks for the cure", LA
2013 - "A's Gathering in Insadong", Seoul
2014 - Exhibition for Copic Marker Awards, Seoul
2019 - Drawing Friends, Seoul
The cover artist for Art Business News, "30 under 30"
-ABN’s Summer 2013
“Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril. Or are we, the viewers, in fact, the ones who are in danger? Whatever the case, we are drawn in, interacting on an emotional level, surprised, looking for something
– Tuija Seipell”