Na Young Lee lives and works between London and Seoul. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She is a painter who explores invisible forces and flows of energy through her work. Rather than depicting fixed forms, her paintings reveal the events, relations, crossings, and intervals that unfold between things. Each canvas is densely filled, layered with translucent glazes, gestures of flow and collision, visualizing a state of “unknowability.”

Her practice is deeply informed by physics and philosophy. Modern physics, even beyond Einstein’s theory of relativity and through paradigms like string theory, has yet to explain the origin or end of all things. This unresolved void becomes a central source of inspiration. Lee’s paintings reflect on the paradox that while we cannot fully know, we nonetheless exist and relate within that very unknowability.

Philosophically, she draws from Alfred North Whitehead’s Process Philosophy, which understands reality not as fixed substance but as process and event. This resonates with Lee’s painterly gestures—marks that are constantly shifting, dissolving, and intermingling. Michel Bitbol’s interpretation of quantum physics as a matter of “observation and relation” rather than mere physical law informs her approach to the viewer’s experience of the work. Likewise, Jenann Ismael’s concept of the Situated Self extends her paintings into ontological questions about the tension between the work and its audience.

Ultimately, Lee’s paintings are less about representing form than about tracing forces, flows, relations, and gaps. They invite the viewer into not a defined origin or end, but into an endlessly entangled “field of encounter.”