Kang Seung Lee

2025 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Kang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist born in South Korea and based in Los Angeles. His work has been included in international exhibitions such as Singapore Biennale (2025), 60th Venice Biennale (2024), New Museum Triennial (2021), and Gwangju Biennale (2021). Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Alexander Gray Associates, New York (2025); MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), São Paulo (2024); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2023). Lee’s work is held in the collections of Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; MASP, São Paulo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.

Untitled (Constellation), 2024Graphite, watercolor, antique 24K gold thread, Sambe, indigo dyed sambe, pearls, 24K gold leaf, brass nails, goatskin parchment, walnut frame, dried plants and seeds from Elysian Park and Fort Road Beach in Singapore, pearls, feathers, silver wire, fossilized leaves from Pennsylvanian to Eocene eras, meteorite, fossilized copper, pebbles, wood, paper, mulberry paper, lacquered mulberry paperappro×. 6 × 118 × 295 inches, installation view at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia : Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere