Lee Chae-Young (b. 1984) is a Korean painter specializing in traditional East Asian ink painting. Working primarily with hanji (Korean paper) and ink, she captures overlooked urban peripheries and forgotten sites of memory. Her works often depict leafless trees, abandoned buildings, and silent alleyways—ordinary scenes transformed into poetic spaces through delicately layered brushwork that hovers between figuration and abstraction. Rather than attempting to recreate nature, she uses the density of ink and a restrained compositional style to quietly observe the passing of time, preserving emotions and experiences that might otherwise fade. Her paintings offer viewers a contemplative space in which to encounter memory in silence.

One of the defining characteristics of Lee’s practice is her use of large-scale formats. By expanding scenes of often-neglected everyday spaces into theatrical dimensions, she invites viewers to physically engage with the painting—moving slowly through the shifts in tone and texture across the ink-washed surfaces. This embodied encounter with space and time has become a key element in her recent work and is particularly suited for exhibition in museum or institutional contexts.

Lee holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in traditional Korean painting from Duksung Women’s University in Seoul. She has held solo exhibitions at major venues including SOMA Museum of Art, POSCO Art Museum, Gallery Sejul, and Jaha Museum, and has participated in numerous domestic and international group exhibitions such as the Jeonnam International Ink Biennale, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, and the National Museum of Kazakhstan.

Her works are part of prominent public and private collections, including the Seoul Museum of Art, Korea Art Bank, POSCO Art Museum, ETRO Korea, Jongkundang, Incheon Cultural Foundation, and Gana Art Center. Lee Chae-Young continues to explore the sensory and temporal dimensions of ink painting, grounding ephemeral memories in the tactile and meditative depth of her medium.