Kakyoung Lee (b. 1975, Korea) specializes in print animation, with most of her works being time-based and installations that utilize traditional and contemporary print media and drawings. Her themes include both non-historical repetitive everydayness through short print animations by overlapping hundreds of prints and drawings on a single plate, as well as nature and social/political contexts through the combination of prints, drawings and mixed media.
SmartSpaces presented Kakyoung Lee’s Walk-2009 (2009) in the Framed: Drawings in Motion group exhibition in the windows of 200 Lafayette Street in New York City.
Lee received her BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University, as well as an MFA from SUNY-Purchase College, NY. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions internationally, including at the Drawing Center, New York, NY; Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Kunsthalle Bremen, DE; Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Bosnia; Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Oqbo, Berlin, DE; Queens Museum, NY; and Seoul Arts Center, Korea. She has held residencies at Omi, ISCP, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, NYFA Fellowship, the Ahl Foundation grant, and KAFA award. She was the 2017 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letter Purchase Award.
Lee’s works are in the collections of Asia Society, New York, NY; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio,TX; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Jeju 4.3 Memorial in Jeju, Korea; and Library of Congress, Washington D.C. among others.
- Project: Framed: Drawings in Motion
- Artist Website: http://kakyounglee.com