Il Lee is best known for his pioneering works using ballpoint pen since 1980s. He recently draws public attention as his works were collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

In this exhibition, the first solo exhibition in Korea since 1996, he presents paintings in various sizes and methods, which are paintings drawn by ballpoint pens on paper and canvas. Furthermore, some paintings, scratched with an empty ballpoint pen on canvas painted with acrylic and oil, are newly introduced for this exhibition.

As he constantly drws lines with ballpoint pens, which are not traditional paint method in art history, Lee discovers the borders between abstract and figurative art, performance and conceptual art, and Eastern and Western philosophy. Especially from his recent works, we are able to witness the accumulated traces of orchestrated and intuitive movements, instead of simple lines drawn by the ballpoint pen itself. 

Il Lee has been critically acclaimed and highly regarded as the next generation artists after his solo exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Crow Collection of Asian Art. His works have also been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and the National Museum of contemporary ARt, Korea.