Kakyoung Lee (she/her) is a Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist with a background in printmaking. Her practice spans printmaking, animation, and installation, with interdisciplinary engagement in print and time-based work at the core of her studio practice.
Lee has exhibited in numerous exhibitions both locally and internationally, including at 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 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (’10, ’23), 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.