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
2003, MFA in Studio Arts, SUNY Purchase College, New York
1999, MFA in Printmaking, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea
1997, BFA in Printmaking, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea
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.
Teaching Appointments
Full-Time Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Art, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, Fall 2025 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Department of Art / Art History, Hunter College; Courses: Projects in 2D, Spring 2024 – Present
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Temple Univ.; 8 Teaching Courses per Academic year, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
Visiting Critic, RISD Printmaking Graduate Program, RISD; Course: Critique1 & 2, Spring 2020
Adjunct Professor in Printmaking, School of Art + Design, SUNY Purchase College, NY; Course: Animated
Artist Talks / Appointments / Lectures & Symposiums
Panel Discussion, Shaping Identity moderated by Youmi Efurd, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, September 2025
Artist Talk, Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema, Swarthmore College, September 2025
Instructor, Reductive Woodcut Course, Lower East Side Printshop, Fall 2024
Visiting Artist & Workshop, 2D Animation Workshop, Lafayette
Grants, Redidencies, & Awards
Puffin Foundation Grant, 2024
PS 122 Project Space Program, 2024 – 2025
Artist Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fall 2023
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2023
Artist Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), VA, Fall 2023
Exhibitions & Screenings
Selected Solo / Two - Person Exhibitions
2025, Transitions: Recent Prints and Animations by Kakyoung Lee, List Gallery / Swarthmore College, PA
2025, Layers of Invisibility, Two-Person Exhibition, curated by Hyewon Yi, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
2020, Picture Time: Two-Person Exhibition, curated by Sun You, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025, Shaping Identity, curated by Youmi Efurd, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, Sept – Dec.
Systems of Becoming: PS122 Project Studio Artists Exhibition, curated by Hyewon Yi, PS122 gallery, NY, July
Echoes of Han: Fragments of Self, Memory, Identity, and Transformation, AHL Foundation gallery, NY, June - July
Where Stares Stay, Lower East Side Prinshop gallery, New York, June - August
2024, And They make Us Poor, For our Only Wealth Is Seeing, Episode Gallery, Brooklyn, Oct – Dec
Making a Good Impression: Art on Paper from Japan, China, and Korea, Hammond Museum, NY, July – Nov
There Is No Sincerity Without Irony, curated by Joyce Chung, AHL Foundation gallery, NY, May – June
Artists Collecting Artists, Richardson Family Art Museum, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, Feb - May
2023, The Dream Salon, Art Mora, NJ, Dec – Jan 2024
Shift: Artists Explore the Complex Condition of Human Migration, Tremain Art Gallery, Hotchkiss High School, CT, Jan – Mar
The Circle of Life, Art Mora Gallery, NJ, June – July
2022, Ricepaper Airplane: Korean Diaspora, directed by Taeho Lee, Inchon Art Platform, South Korea, Sept – Nov (Catalogue)
Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, April - Oct
Artists Draw Their Studios, curated by Michelle Weinberg, Hewitt gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, April-May
2021, Place, Memory & Identity: Contemporary Korean-American Women Artists, Richardson Family Art Museum, Wofford College,Spartanburg, SC, Sept-Dec
Out Loud, a virtual exhibition benefiting AAAJ, curated by Jiha Moon, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, May-Aug Gupo Media Art Festival: Connection/Disconnection, Busan, South Korea, May-June
2020, Old Ponies :: New Tricks :: 2020 A Spring Meeting of Animations, Lines Fiction (online), Germany, April
2 0 1 9 Stillness/Movement: Contemporary Works from the Korean Cultural Center, AHHA Tulsa Museum, OK, June-July
More information is available in CV.