1979年出生于韩国首尔，现在生活工作于韩国首尔和英国伦敦。她毕业于首尔诚信女子大学，获得绘画学士学位，后在英国学习，获得伦敦皇家美术学院绘画硕士学位。
李昇爱创作的动画探索线条、图像变化和移动影像之间的关系。作品呈现了一系列铅笔素描图像在纸上无意识自发地重复擦除与重绘的过程。艺术家描绘的对象通常是分离的肢体、自然生物和怀旧物品，它们仿佛拥有自我意识般运动和变化着，然而每一阶段的变化总是留有上一阶段的痕迹。动画通常持续6到9分钟，以投影的方式呈现。
她的作品曾在多个国际场馆展出，包括威尼斯Anima Mundi 2017国际艺术节（2017），第四届广州三年展（2012），美国纽约斗山美术馆（2011），首尔一民美术馆（2009），首尔美术馆（2009）以及首尔高丽雅娜美术馆（2009）。她于2016年获得Valerie Beston艺术家信托奖（伦敦），2013年获得Gucci年轻艺术家奖金，2009年她的作品被选入谷歌线上美术馆。她的作品被包括佳士得在内的多个机构收藏。
Seung Ae Lee (b.1979, Seoul) graduated from Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul with a BA in Painting and obtained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London.
Lee’s sophisticated drawing animations are a series of spontaneous pencil drawings that repeat the process of erasing and redrawing on paper, continuously leaving traces of the previous stage. Each stage transforms into the next, with the new movement (or drawing) inspired by the previous stage. Developed through autonomous ideas and movements, Lee’s drawings often depict segregated parts of the body, natural organisms, and nostalgic items. The sound effects of percussions complement the visual imagery – and at the same time, the drawings also visually respond to sounds, as the percussion becomes the subject of depiction.
Lee’s work has been exhibited at various international venues, including Anima Mundi 2017 International Art Festival, Venice (2017), The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial (2012), Doosan Art Gallery, New York (2011), Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2009), the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2009) and Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul (2009). She is the winner of the Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize 2016 (London). In 2013, she was awarded the Gucci Young Artist Grant (Seoul) and in 2009, her works were selected by the Google Cultural Institute as part of the online Google Arts & Culture . Her works are widely collected by private and public collections including Arario Collection, Christie’s and Doosan Collection to name a few.
