Private Studio & Salon
A space for art, tech/AI-informed coaching, and material research — for making, conversation, and border-crossing.
A private studio and salon in Seoul for coaching, reflection, creative practice, research, prints, and experimental forms of dialogue.
Five Pillars
Together, these pillars shape the studio's research, practice, and evolving programs.
Jay Lee's ongoing studio practice across materials, artworks, prints, and research.
Intimate events by invited artists, coaches, designers, and practitioners — talks, performances, and conversations brought to the studio from around the world.
A coaching layer for people moving through borders, transitions, and layered questions.
Multi-session group workshops on AI-era practice — for artists, solopreneurs, and open call applications.
A research strand exploring material archives, biomaterials, and region-specific sources.
Studio Calendar
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Past Events
About the Studio
Material Memory Studio is a private research studio and salon exploring material culture, artistic practice, and border-crossing conversations across art, technology, and lived experience.
Material Memory Studio was founded by Jay Lee as an extension of his ongoing artistic practice — a space built to share material research, coaching, and creative inquiry with others. Based in Seoul, it operates across artistic practice, coaching, and material research rather than within any single field. It welcomes artists, designers, founders, practitioners, researchers, and professionals drawn to careful thinking and the kinds of conversation that resist easy resolution.
Coaching, artist studio sessions, group workshops, and guest host salon gatherings are now running by appointment, alongside an evolving material research library. Material Memory Studio continues to open gradually, with new formats added as they take shape.
Jay Lee's personal art practice and archive: jayartmaking.com
From the Material Archive
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Private 1:1 coaching for people moving through transition, reinvention, leadership, and layered personal or professional change. A space for reflection, clarity, and movement across identities, roles, geographies, and life chapters.
Not in Seoul? Online coaching, a free 30-min chemistry call, reflective essays, and newsletter are available at whywhatmatters.com
Intimate, appointment-based exchanges in the studio. Not coaching or consulting — a carefully held dialogue for coaches, artists, designers, researchers, practitioners, and professionals who resist easy categorization.
Original artworks and photographic prints from Jay Lee's ongoing studio practice and nomadic archive. Spanning painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics, bioplastics, beeswax, alternative photography, and print-based works, each piece explores how materials hold memory across time, place, and transformation.
For selected works and extended archive: jayartmaking.com/works
Workshops led by Jay Lee through evolving collections of natural, historical, and locally hand-selected materials gathered across different regions. Rooted in processes of making, cooking, transformation, and experimentation, these workshops explore how materials carry memory, place, and time.
AI as an execution tool — not a subject. Two tracks: Artist Practice (group workshop — brand language, channels, open call applications) and Solopreneur (private session — domain clarity, business planning, growth strategy). Hands-on and systems-focused.
Artist Practice Workshop for the AI Era (Online · Jul 18 / In-Person · Aug 8) →
Artist Private Session in the AI Era (1:1 · By Appointment · Online & In-Person) →
Global Open Call & Residency Workshop (Group · By Appointment · Online & In-Person) →
Solopreneur Workshop (Private · By Appointment · Online & In-Person) →
Global Launch Session for the AI Era (1:1 · By Appointment · Online & In-Person) →
An evolving archive of material references, regional and historical sources, biomaterial experiments, pigments, binders, found forms, and artistic research. Part studio library, part working index — shaped by questions of memory, time, transformation, and place.
Special workshops, talks, gatherings, and events developed with an international network of professional coaches, artists, curators, designers, and AI/tech industry experts. A space for shared inquiry, cross-disciplinary exchange, and new forms of conversation.
"Material Memory Studio is a space for making, conversation, and border-crossing — where art, coaching, and technology meet. Open by appointment."
Seoul — Spring 2026
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