Kang Seung Lee

Kang Seung Lee

BornNationalityBased In
1978American/South KoreanSeoul, Los Angeles
Biography

Kang Seung Lee’s practice seeks both to illuminate and to create new critical, cross-cultural queer histories. Born in South Korea but having lived in Latin America and the Middle East, Seung Lee is concerned with excavating material – such as artworks, artefacts and publications, from public and private archives, for example libraries, museums and private collections – that sheds light on non-Western marginalised experiences and suppressed histories. Through the artist’s meticulous process of research, hidden narratives and personal accounts, divergent with hegemonic and linear histories, begin to emerge. Expressing his findings with graphite pencil, paintings on transformed canvases, garments, ceramics, film footage and Polaroid images, Kang Seung Lee sees these alternative, counter-narratives as dictating strategies and tactics for the liberation of marginalised peoples. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled (List)
Kang Seung LeeUntitled (List), 2018
353.06 x 363.22 x 91.44cm
Untitled (Goh Choo San 2)
Kang Seung LeeUntitled (Goh Choo San 2), 2018
34.29 x 41.91 x 3.81cm
Untitled (Goh Choo San 2)
Kang Seung LeeUntitled (Goh Choo San 2), 2018
34.29 x 41.91 x 3.81cm
100
Kang Seung Lee100, 2015
172.72 x 172.72 x 5.08cm
and Child (Cat. 131)
and Child (Cat. 470)
and Child (Cat. 1006, 1384)
and Child (Cat. 1297)
and Child (Cat. 1531)
and Child (Cat. 1671)
List
Kang Seung LeeList, 2016
88.9 x 63.5cm
Untitled (SLUTFORART)
Skin
Untitled (Elysian)
Untitled
Kang Seung LeeUntitled, 2024
235 x 34 x 1cm
Untitled (Chairs)
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