• "Moka Lee: The artist using strangers' selfies to make haunting works of art"
  by Almee Dawson, The Art Newspaper, 2025
• "This South Korean artist is turning strangers' Instagram posts into portraits"
  by Amy Gunia, CNN, 2025
• "Moka Lee's portraits capture the likeness of social media strangers"
  Art Basel, 2023
• "Eight Works to Fawn over at Frieze London 2024"
  Ocula, 2024

b.1996, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea

2022 MFA, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
2021 BFA, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea

Selected Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions

2025
FACE ID, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK

2023
Innuendo, Jason Haam, Seoul, South Korea

2021
Is There Any Place For Us?, This Weekend Room, Seoul, South Korea (two-person exhibition with Jiwon Choi),

2020
Flame in a Small Room, Gallery ANOV, Seoul, South Korea
Glowing Afterimage, Yugiche, Busan, South Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits – Contemporary Art from Korea, 1960s to Today, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, Abu Dhabi
Karma II: Jihyoung Han, Jungwook Kim, Mike Lee, Moka Lee, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London

2024
Deaf Republic, Jason Haam, Seoul, South Korea
Masterful Attention Seekers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
Artificial Tears, Museum Head, Seoul, South Korea

2023
Karma, Jason Haam, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK

2022
jason haam: five years, part one, Jason Haam, Seoul, South Korea

2020
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Chapter II, Seoul, South Korea

2019
4th New Drawing Project, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju, South Korea

Selected Awards

2019
DDP Prize, Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea

Selected Collections

The Seoul Museum of Art