Born in South Korea, Kakyoung Lee (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based artist with a background in printmaking. Her practice spans printmaking, animation, video, and installation. Interdisciplinary engagement with print and time-based work is central to her research and studio practice.
Lee holds her BFA and MFA in printmaking 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; Hofstra University, Hempstead; Kunsthalle Bremen, DE; Mass MOCA, North Adams; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Bosnia; Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oqbo, Berlin, DE; Queens Museum, New York; and Seoul Arts Center, Korea. She has been invited to numerous artist residencies including Omi, NY; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY; Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; MacDowell Colony, NH; Yaddo, NY. She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, NYFA Fellowship, the Ahl Foundation grant, and the KAFA award. She was the 2017 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letter Purchase Award.
Lee’s works have been featured in the Library of Congress blog, Art in Paper, Hyperallergic, and Printeresting.com. Lee’s prints and moving images have been included in the collections of Asia Society Museum, New York; McNay Art Museum, TX; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Jeju 4.3 Memorial in Jeju, Korea; and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. among others.
At MacDowell in 2003, Lee completed a new animation titled "Sprinkling the Cactus" tobe shown in her solo show at Shinsegae Gallery, Inchon, Korea, in 2004. During her 2005 residency, she focused on her sixth animation, "New City."
