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    “The fabric is a small still life and a vast ocean all at once."

    Leeah Joo is a Korean-American painter based in Connecticut. Born in 1971 in Seoul, Leeah was raised by a sculptor father and an illustrator mother. At age ten, her family moved to Indianapolis, where she spent her youth. She studied painting and art history at Indiana University in Bloomington and received her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art.

    Her paintings have exhibited widely in U.S. and South Korea and recognized with awards from Pollock Krasner, George Sugarman Foundation and Connecticut Commission on Arts. Since 1996, she has taught and served as visiting artist at many institutions including the Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Hartford Art School and Fairfield University. She lives and paints in Middlebury and teaches at Southern CT State University.

  • New In Leeah Joo Paintings
    • Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 48, Meandros, 2024
      Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 48, Meandros, 2024
    • Leeah Joo, Parrhasius Verso No. 44, 2023
      Leeah Joo, Parrhasius Verso No. 44, 2023
    • Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 46, Venus, 2023
      Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 46, Venus, 2023
    • Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 26, Steel, 2022
      Leeah Joo, Parrhasius No. 26, Steel, 2022
  • Buying and Selling Leeah Joo Paintings Through Guy Hepner

    Buying and Selling Leeah Joo Paintings Through Guy Hepner

     
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