Kang Seung Lee (b. 1978, Seoul; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2015). Solo exhibitions have been held at Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park (2023); Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2021); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021, 2017, 2016); Hapjungjigu, Seoul (2019); One and J. Gallery, Seoul (2018); and Artpace San Antonio (2017). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Cantor Arts Center (2024); Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis (2024); 60th Venice Biennale (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung (2024); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennial (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2021); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2020); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2020); and LAXART (2017). Lee is a recipient of Angeles Art Fund Artadia Award (2023), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2018). Lee has participated in residencies at MacDowell (2022); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2020); Artpace San Antonio (2017); and Pitzer College, Claremont (2015).

Lee’s work is in the collections of Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong.