The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2025 Spring Visual Grant to Juyon Lee for her upcoming exhibition Weighing of the Light,

at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York.  In this new multimedia series ,Images are sculpted and integrated into materials that hold memory within their making process, such as glass and metal, Alongside moving elements like light emitted from neon tubing and water.

 In Juyon Lee’s new multimedia series Weighing of the Light for the two-person exhibition at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, images are sculpted and integrated into materials that hold memory within their making process, such as glass and metal, alongside moving elements like light emitted from neon tubing and water. Lee begins the series by hand-weaving photographs exchanged with her family abroad during her grandfather’s funeral in the fall of 2023. The ongoing process of grief and the anticipated loss of her grandmother in the wake of her grandfather’s passing have led Lee to reflect on mortality as a human condition. Oscillating between the human desire to cling to life and a contemplation of the inevitable experience of death, Lee explores the instability of existence and memory through this new body of work.

Through the use of line, morphed surfaces, and elements like water and light that move and circulate with the passage of time, Lee interweaves and collapses multi-dimensional elements to explore what it means to exist in and outside the body, to connect with another being through the mediation of a screen, and how memory morphs and extends the experience of existence.

Juyon Lee is a South Korea-born artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up between Seoul and the greater Boston area, Lee developed her interest in dissonance in space and time and ephemeral nature of being. She explores the idea of transience and fluidity in perception and meaning-making process by weaving images into multidimensional works composed of architectural elements, functional and nonfunctional objects with ethereal materials like light and air.

Lee has exhibited widely, including Tufts University Art Galleries, New Bedford Art Museum, TCNJ Gallery, Jewett Arts Center, and NARS Foundation. She is the recipient of notable fellowships and awards, including the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, The Café Royal Cultural Foundation Grant,Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass Visionary Scholarship,St. Botolph's Emerging Artist Award, and Pilchuck Glass School Fellowship. She participated in artist residencies at LMCC Arts Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Lee holds her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BA from Wellesley College (summa cum laude).

Please visit Juyon’s Website and Instagram for more information.