Jaehyo Lee (Korean, b. 1965) is a Korean sculptor who has exhibited extensively in his homeland and in Europe. He makes free-standing sculptures and reliefs from humble, almost mundane, materials, principally logs and steel nails. These are transformed with great skill and hours of industrious toil into lustrous and refined objects. Their highly polished and burnished surfaces express an attention to detail and a painstaking concern for disclosing the innate beauty of the material. These unique forms are derived from the interdependence of man-made and natural. Their structural integrity relies on the contrasting combination of steel and wood.

Permanent collections include: Emaar Properties, Dubai, UAE, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Moran Museum, Korea, Ilmin Museum of Art, Korea, Busan Municipal Museum of Art, Korea, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea, 63 City Tower, Korea, W-Soeul. Walker Hill, Korea, Osaka Contemporary Art Center of Japan, Japan, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan, Sculpture in Woodland, Ireland, Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum, USA, Phoenix Island, Korea, Pusan National University Hospital, Korea, Industrial Bank, Taiwan, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, Daegu Bank, Korea, Lotte World Tower, Korea, Art Sella Sculpture Park, Italy, Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Sweden.