Ruarí Milne

Born in Canada

Lives and works in London, UK

Yeji Sei Lee completed her MFA in Painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024 and a BFA in Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020. Lee’s work explores how spaces retain traces of presence, light, and time. The artist is interested in atmospheres shaped through the accumulation of movement, memory, and sensation, and in how paint can hold moments that remain unresolved or difficult to name. Rather than depicting fixed narratives, Lee approaches painting as a space where images gradually emerge, dissolve, and coexist.

Lee’s work has been recognised with the Oil Award at Jackson’s Art Prize (2026), the Judge’s Award at AATM (2024), the Encouragement Prize at KAMIYAMA ART 10th Exhibition (2024), the O-shi Commemorative Prize (2020), the Ueno Geiyu Prize (2019), and the A-TOM Art Prize (2018). Her work is held in the Ryutaro Takahashi Collection, the Contemporary Art Foundation (Japan), and in the collection of Takashi Murakami.

EDUCATION

2026 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2025 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2024 BA with High Distinction in Art History (minors in Diaspora Studies and Spanish), University of Toronto

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 'London Writes Itself,' LBF Contemporary, London, UK (Group)

2026 'Intersections,' Annex by the Koppel Project, London, UK, curated by Fernando Carri (Group)

2026 'Shine Light,' Indra Gallery, London, UK, curated by the Table and Gallery (Group)

2026 'Salon 0502,' The Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station, London, UK, curated by September Curatorial (Group)

2025 'Preludes,' hARTslane Gallery, London, UK (Group)

2023 'Tonic,' Nuit Blanche Toronto, 401 Richmond, Toronto, Canada (Group)