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Moka Lee: Persona Works

David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles · Mid-City

Exhibition on view: Jul 10, 2026 - Aug 22, 2026

400-character summary:

Moka Lee’s Persona Works features meticulously layered paintings that transform social media images into psychologically charged portraits and still lifes. Exploring identity, digital culture, and self-presentation, her works contrast the polished surfaces of online life with subtle signs of vulnerability, memory, and mortality, questioning the boundaries between person and persona.

Artist

Moka Lee

Moka Lee (b. 1996, South Korea) has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2025); Jason Haam, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Gallery ANOV, Seoul, South Korea (2020); and Yugiche, Busan, South Korea (2020). Notable group exhibitions include Second Body, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); MOSS : The Damp and Shaded Green Mass, Seoul Museum, Seoul, South Korea (2025); SeMA Omnibus: At the End of the World Split Endlessly, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2024); Masterful Attention Seekers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea (2024); and Artificial Tears, Museum Head, Seoul, South Korea (2024). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; and Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway. She lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.