About

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 the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Made in LA at Hammer Museum (2023); New Museum Triennial (2021); and Gwangju Biennale (2021). He also participated in documenta fifteen (2022) invited by Jatiwangi Art Factory.

Lee has had solo exhibitions and projects at 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 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 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.

Lee's work is in the collections of Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist, Paris/San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; MASP, São Paulo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; RISD Museum, Providence; Sunpride Foundation; Akeroyd Collection; among others.

He is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, and Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

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