Heyo Lee (b. 1983, Jeju, South Korea) is a painter based on Jeju Island, where he maintains a daily painting practice. Working primarily in acrylic on linen, his work moves fluidly between portraiture, landscape and still life, treating every element on the canvas as an object carefully arranged within a quietly theatrical composition.
Since 2024, Lee has focused on still life as a way of rethinking the conventions of painting. Bringing together fruit, plants, books, vessels and everyday objects with figures and fragments of landscape, his compositions dissolve the traditional boundaries between genres. Through a restrained visual language and careful attention to colour, form and spatial relationships, ordinary subjects take on an unexpected presence, inviting viewers to look again at the familiar.