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Minjae Lee a.k.a GrenoMJ

Born 1989.  Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea

 

 

Worked with 

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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”

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