"Imprints" on view at Griffin Museum of Photography

I'm happy to present "Imprints", an intimate selection of my personal works and studies, which often set the stage for larger, ambitious projects, at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. The works chosen highlight my evolving role as an image-based artist, and the relationship my practice has with image translations and photosensitive processes.

On view April 23 - June 29th, 2025

About the exhibition:

"The works presented in this collection of works are imprints of experiments, exercises, and works that serve as formative reminders and cues to Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s large-scale practices in image capturing, transferring, preservation and deterioration. His works in image transfer techniques highlights a rebellion to, and rejection of, the manic archival practices of photography in the era of smartphones and the Cloud, and how the deterioration of the image through each subsequent transfer process mirrors the natural deterioration of memories. He is particularly interested in the significance of meaning-making when referential points in representation get increasingly obscure, and how it affects our relationship to the original image, and original memory. Within his works in cyanotype printing – an attempt that documenting the ritual of performance, iterations, and endurance that defines Timothy’s practice in the visual arts, he is particularly interested in how the lexicon of this photosensitive process mimics those of immigration, and thinking about the terminology of exposure as assimilation. His abstractions in cyanotype utilizes exposure lengths to capture time-based documentation of whitening, erasing, and ultimately the invisibility that comes with the transience of constant migration – something that he has deeply felt as a child immigrant in the United States. "