About

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Kang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in South Korea and now lives and works in Los Angeles. His work frequently engages the legacy of transnational queer histories, particularly as they intersect with art history. Lee’s work has been included in international exhibitions such as Singapore Biennale (2025); 60th Venice Biennale (2024); New Museum Triennial (2021); and Gwangju Biennale (2021). He also participated in Made in LA at Hammer Museum (2023) and documenta fifteen (2022) invited by Jatiwangi Art Factory.

Lee has had solo exhibitions and projects at Alexander Gray Associates, New York (2025); MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), São Paulo (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2021); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021, 2017, 2016); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2020); One and J. Gallery, Seoul (2018); Artpace, San Antonio (2017); Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles (2016); and Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont (2015).

Selected group exhibitions have been held at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2026); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2026); Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington (2025); Wallach Gallery at Columbia University (2025); Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2024); Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2024, 2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); de Appel, Amsterdam (2023); Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (2023); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2021); Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju (2020); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2020); Palm Springs Art Museum (2019); PARTICIPANT INC, New York (2019); LA><ART, Los Angeles (2017); and Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador (2016).

He is a recipient of Trellis Art Fund Stepping Stone Grant (2025); Artadia Award (2023); LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, LACMA (2022); MacDowell Fellowship (2022); 18th Street Arts Center Artist Lab Residency (2020); apexart New York International Open Call (2019); California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019); Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2018); and Artpace San Antonio International Artist-in-Residence program (2017). He was a finalist for Korea Artist Prize 2023.

Public Collections
Akeroyd Collection
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Busan Museum of Art, Busan
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), São Paulo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MAC3)
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Galleries
Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Alexander Gray Associates, New York