Kakyoung Lee
Assistant Professor of Art
Biography
Kakyoung Lee is a South Korean-born, New York-based artist with a background in printmaking. Her current practice spans printmaking, animation, and installation, with interdisciplinary engagement in print and time-based work at the core of her studio practice.
Area of Expertise
Both Traditional Printmaking and Contemporary Printmaking
Print Animation
Video Installation
Degrees
BFA / MFA in Printmaking, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
MFA in Studio Arts, SUNY Purchase College, New York
Additional Information
Lee has participated in numerous exhibitions both locally and internationally, including at the List Gallery/Swarthmore College, the Drawing Center, Museum of Modern Art, Queens Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, Ryan Lee Gallery, Tiger Strike Astroid Gallery (New York), Kunsthalle Bremen, Deutscher Bundestag Berlin, Seoul Arts Center, and Space C in Jeju, Korea. She has participated in many artist residency programs, including the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Omi, ISCP, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Brandywine Workshop where she was able to concentrate on developing time intensive print animation projects. Lee has received several grants and awards, including two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, the NYFA Fellowship, the AHL Foundation grant, and the KAFA Award. Lee’s works have been featured in Art in Paper, Hyperallergic, Art in America, the Huffington Post, Printeresting.com, and in many magazines internationally. Her prints and animations are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Asia Society Museum, New York; the McNay Art Museum, TX; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; the Jeju 4.3 Memorial in Jeju, Korea; among others.