Lee Yong Deok was born in Seoul, Korea in 1956 and graduated from the sculpture department of Fine Arts College of Seoul National University in 1982 and that graduated from School of Seoul National University in 1989, as a master's degree. In 1997 he finished the artists' research class in the Berlin University of the Arts (the major of sculpture). At present, he is a professor in the sculpture department of the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University.

Since in individual exhibition in 1988 in the Fine Arts Center of Seoul Arts & Literature Development Institute, up to now, Lee Yong Deok has launched individual exhibition and joint exhibition for many times, of which, including his individual exhibition of "Transfer- Backward" launched in 2003 by Pyo Gallery, after that, he participated in the exhibition cosponsored by Pyo Gallery and COEX in Korea International Art Fair in 2004, thus he has attracted great attention from the artistic circle. In the 3rd International Multimedia Biennial Exhibition, Korea in the same year, under the joint efforts of Pyo Gallery and Seoul Sejong Center, his individual exhibition stirred up the sensation again. Over the two years, he has successfully launched individual exhibition in China National Museum of Fine Arts and Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.

Lee Yong Deok's sculpture works have developed his own style and formed his unique style. His contribution to expansion in sculpture ideology and renewal of sculpture language has made him a new cotemporary artistic master. His works have broken through the common understanding about traditional sculpture and the expression way and artistic language of traditional sculpture. Through sculpt ing and copying of real figure combining technique of the intaglio carving, he makes the integrant sunk part requiring expression producing the visual effect similar to the negative film in photography. Looking into the distance, the body looks so solid, full and vivid, but looking near, you would find it just a plane undergone sinking treatment; it is very easy for people to have an illusion. Meanwhile, in his works, artistic creation in different means has contained a distinctive orient aesthetic interest and orient aesthetic philosophy, meanwhile, tallying with the orient style of complementation between yin and yang, bright and dark, virtual and solid.