Artists in residence
Each year, the Cité internationale des arts welcomes more than 1,000 artists from around the world, offering them a space for creation, research, and exchange in Paris, in the Marais and Montmartre districts. Open to all artistic disciplines—visual arts, music, literature, film, design and architecture, performing arts, and curating—it enables artists to develop their projects in an environment that fosters experimentation and meaningful connections.
Sinae Lee
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Visual arts
Born in Seoul (KR) in 1989, Sinae Lee has been living and working in Paris for nine years. As a foreigner herself, she explores the life of a foreigner in France, questioning the physical and psychological distance between France and Korea.
Through videos, installations and performances, she questions notions of identity, belonging, displacement and rootedness. Nine years ago, Sinae Lee left South Korea for France. The tug of war she felt, “not quite here but not quite there”, became her playground.
The links to the other are explored through the various postures she adopts, both as a director and as a performer. Different degrees of intimacy and distance are humorously observed through the prism of tourism and the media.
Using postcards, Skype videos, replayed childhood memories and games, Sinae Lee probes time and space and examines our interactions in terms of these two coordinates. The artist exposes the strangeness born of exile, and attempts to unravel the mechanisms of metamorphosis.
Sinae Lee graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2021 and was awarded the Prix Contemporain 2022 by the Point Contemporain magazine. The artist has shown her work in numerous exhibitions and collective events in France and abroad, including the most recent in 2022: the Biennale de la jeune création at La Graineterie (Houilles), the Hors pistes festival at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Silver is the Back of the Mugwort at 55ooofff (Seoul, KR), the Nouveaux Rêves festival at Méliès Saint-François (Saint-Etienne) and the 3rd edition of the SICINEMA festival at Café des Images (Caen).
Siyeon Lee
Year/s of residence : 2018, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
Visual arts
So Youn Lee
Year/s of residence : 2026, Gana Art Center
Visual arts
Sora Lee
Year/s of residence : 2017, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Sun Ju Lee
Year/s of residence : 2009, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Sun-A Lee
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
Sungmi Lee
Year/s of residence : 2019, Gana Art Center
Visual arts
Tom Lee
Year/s of residence : 2009, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
Tzyy-Sheng Lee
Year/s of residence : 2007, Taiwan Cultural Center in Paris
Music
Woo-Whan Lee U Fan
Year/s of residence : 1977, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Won Hee Lee
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2009, 2016, Gana Art Center, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
Xu-Tong Lee
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institute for Acoustic/Music Research and Coordination
Music
Yejin Lee
Year/s of residence : 2025, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
Visual arts
Yeul Lee
Year/s of residence : 2015, 2016, Hongik University, South Korea
Visual arts
Yong-Jin Lee
Year/s of residence : 2017, Gana Art Center
Visual arts
Yongbom Lee
Year/s of residence : 2024, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Music
YongHoon Lee
Year/s of residence : 2015, Samsung Foundation for Culture and the Arts, South Korea
Visual arts
Yoon Ji Lee
Year/s of residence : 2021, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
Visual arts
You Mee Lee
Year/s of residence : 2010, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
Young Joo Lee
Year/s of residence : 2025, 2–12
Visual arts
Young Joo Lee is a South Korean multidisciplinary artist who recently relocated to Paris after living in Germany, the United States, and Canada. She examines and reimagines her experiences of immigration, motherhood, and cultural heritage by creating narrative worlds using drawing, digital media, performance, and installation. She is currently working on a practice-based doctoral thesis (SACRe) at the École Normale Supérieure on matrilineal and matrifocal societies as critiques of the present and guides for the future. Lee has exhibited and held artist residencies internationally, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul) and The Drawing Center (NYC), Curitiba Biennial, and was a Harvard College Fellow, Macdowell Fellow, Fulbright, and DAAD scholarship holder.
© Kristen Joy Mack
