Daein Lee About

b. 2000, lives and works in Seoul
His practice drifts between drawing, airbrush, and image fragments.
There’s a recurring figure, but it doesn’t ask for attention—
it just stays, like a feeling you didn’t mean to hold on to.

The works imagine a place where emotions exist as physical matter:
floatable, interruptible, lost and re-found.
There’s no narrative to follow, only moods that linger.
Somewhere between clouds, memory glitches,
and the static noise between “I feel” and “I forgot.”

He doesn't paint answers. He leaves residue.








Shower / 1167 x 803mm / oil pastel, oil stick on canvas, 2025


亂鬪 / 970 x 970mm / oil pastel,airbrush on canvas, 2025




lingered / 420 x 297mm / oil pastel, color pencil, airbrush, cut paper on paper, 2025


Sparkling in crowd / 1000 x 650mm / oil pastel,airbrush on canvas, 2025




brief moment / 135 x 90mm / oil pastel, color pencil on paper, 2025






magic world 2 / 150 x 80 mm / colored pecnil, oil pastel on paper, 2025






magic world 1 / 150 x 80 mm / colored pecnil, ink on paper, 2025






painting for YESEYESEE x Tenga, 2024







painting for YESEYESEE x Tenga, 2024









find my 6 dreams / 460 x 530 mm / Oil pastel, color pencil on canvas, 2024