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Interview / Film
Transitions: Recent Prints and Animations by Kakyoung Lee
“Kakyoung Lee explores a world where everyday movement becomes a profound act of expression. Through her prints, drawings, animations, and video projections, she elevates overlooked identities and celebrates the subtle power of daily life. Inspired by her experience as a first-generation Korean immigrant in the United States, Lee’s work reflects personal journeys of self-realization, empowerment, and transformation. From walking through a city to gazing out a train window, she turns simple gestures into meaningful narratives, revealing the beauty hidden within routine moments..”
Video Production by Colibrí Workshop, Published on the List Gallery website, 10/03/2025
Review
The Phoenix / Alex Coley
“In her artist talk on Sept. 17, Kakyoung Lee described her work — mainly a collection of print-making works turned frame-by-frame animation — as “exploring the layers [of the] ignored moments of everyday life.” Layers are key to her work, as Lee doesn’t clean her inking surface between printing images. Instead, each image she creates has remnants of the scene that came before, creating a nostalgic connection between past, present, and future.”
Published on ARTS / The Phoenix, 09/25/2025
News
Art Daily
SWARTHMORE, PA.- The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, is presenting Transitions: Recent Prints and Animations by Kakyoung Lee. The exhibition is being presented September 10—October 26, 2025. On Wednesday, September 17 at 4:30 PM, Lee will give a public lecture about her artistic journey and creative process in the Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema. The List Gallery reception will follow 5:30–7:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesdays–Sundays, Noon-5:00 p.m. In addition, the List Gallery is publishing and displaying Practice, a limited-edition artist’s book by Kakyoung Lee. More information about the exhibition and a video about the artist’s creative process will soon be available on the List Gallery website.
Published on Artdaily, 09/11/2025
Review
BTR / Tanya Silverman
“The rigorous, repetitive tracing method is crucial in Lee’s mission to maintain an “objective” and “nonfiction” approach. Each piece takes about two and a half years to finish, and the artist compares the tedious process to everyday life: “tiring, boring, but sometimes meditating.”
Published on BTR, 11/25/2014
Interview
Debora Ando Print Workshop / Debora Ando
“Lee’s animations are laborious and sensitive translations of moving images (video footage of everyday life) into the graphic language of drypoint on Plexi (perspex).”
Posted on deboraando.de, 08/28/2014
Studio Visit
Printeresting / Yoonmi Nam
“…So, when I recently made a trip to New York City for a few days, I called her up and spent an afternoon with Kakyoung in her studio in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn...”
Published on printeresting.com, 12/01/2013
Review
Art in Print / Sarah Kirk Hanley
“Kakyoung Lee’s mesmerizing install-ations, comprised of stop-action animation accompanied by the draw-ings or prints used to make the video, call attention to the daily rituals of street life—those formless periods of time in which we absent-mindedly travel from one place to the next.”
Art in Print, Jan-Fab 2012 (print)
Review
Huffington Post / Anne Couillaud
Review of Drawings in Motion organized curated by Rachel Liebowitz and Joanna Kleinberg at The Drawing Center in New York
Published in the Huffington Post 05/25/2011
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