Yeonsook Lee (pen name Rita). They write about popular culture and visual arts, with a particular interest in modes of existence of minority subjects. As a member of the editorial and curatorial collective “Agrafa Society,” they published the web journal Seminar and co-organized feminist lectures and criticism under the project name “OFF.” They maintain a blog at http://blog.naver.com/hotleve. Lee received the Excellence Award in Comics Criticism from Critique M in 2015 and the SeMA-Hana Art Criticism Award in 2021. They are the author of The Advancing Low (mediabus, 2023), a book examining visual culture and queer negativity.
As part of the preliminary program for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Yeonsook Lee (Rita) wrote the research essay Museum and Comic World (2025), which revisits the history of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale to reveal moments of contradiction, division and the complex relations between art institutions and subcultural/subaltern subjects in Korea.
