S O Y O   L E E is an artist whose interest is to preserve and look through orderly picture clues in certain biological samples. She observes and applies procedures for transforming nature into a variety of visual cultures by means of hands-on participation in contemporary scientific research. Through this practice, she attempts to take part in the fusion and tension among quantitative, qualitative and imaginative modes of speculation. She is currently a resident artist at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, making extreme close-up photographs by shooting electrons through thinly sliced insects.

CONTACT

soyo[a]vegetablelamb.org

2113 Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180



SHOWS

Corpus Extremus (Life+), Exit Art, New York, NY, 2009

Transient Creatures, Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, 2008

Light of Reason and Dead Butterflies, CBIS-RPI, Troy, NY, 2008



MEDIA/ PUBLICATIONS

The mechanical properties of ‘Drosophila’ jump muscle expressing wild-type and embryonic
myosin isoforms, Biophysical Journal, Catherine Eldred et al., 2009

Corpus Extremus (Life +), Leonardo Reviews, Boryana Rossa, 2009

The BioArt Initiative - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lab Project Id:81,
Ad!dict, Kathy High, 2008

The BioArt Initiative : An Experiment, The BioArt Initiative, Kathy High et al., 2008

Transient Creatures, Microwave, Joel Kwong et al., 2008



OTHER

Resident Artist, Center for PostNatural History, Current

Resident Artist, CBIS-RPI, Current

Fabrication Coordinator, Large Sculpture Spring by Coosje Van Bruggen
and Claes Oldengburg, 2006

Production Designer, Korea National University of Arts, 2002-2006

Researcher, Vision Lab, Yonsei University, 1996-1998

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY, Current

MFA, Department of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008

BFA, Department of Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, 2006

BA, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 1998

SKILLS

Photography / Scenography / Histology & micrography / Digital imaging