Jiyong Lee: Artist & Professor
Jiyong Lee is a Korean-American glass artist and professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, known for the Segmentation series—complex interior structures in solid glass, precisely segmented and reassembled. His work holds that we never see anything, or anyone, wholly: translucency as a material limit, sight always partial.
A finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Lee is represented in collections including The Corning Museum of Glass, and presents new work in Homo Faber: An Island of Light in Venice in 2026.
A finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Lee is represented in collections including The Corning Museum of Glass, and presents new work in Homo Faber: An Island of Light in Venice in 2026.
Selected Exhibition Views
Thoughts on Thickness — Korean Craft Exhibition, Milan, 2024
“Jiyong Lee’s intricate interplays of color and light could be rigid and stiff, but their execution and balance make them seem effortless, balanced, and unburdened.”
— William V. Ganis, "The Tao of Glass" Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, 2023
— William V. Ganis, "The Tao of Glass" Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, 2023