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Kang Seung Lee
Born in 1978, Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea, Los Angeles, United States
Overview
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 r...Read more
Selected artworks
Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Peter Hujar, Hall, Canal Street Pier, ), 1983
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar’s Hand, ), 1988
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Goh Choo San 3), 2024
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled, 2024
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Put Badly, Gi Hyeong-do), 2022
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Elysian), 2023
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Small, Quiet Things), 2023
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Kang Seung Lee
Skin, 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (SLUTFORART), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Keith Haring in front of a subway drawing, 1980s), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Juan Dubose, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Keith Haring, with drawings by Keith Haring on the original photograph by Tseng Kwong Chi), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
List, 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. D34, D38, D39, D43, D47, D48, D56, D57), 2015 - 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. D11, D12, D13, D20), 2015 - 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. D1, D5, D6, D8, D9), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 1671), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 1531), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 1297), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 1006, 1384), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 701, 719, 815, 885, 977), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 470), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. D105, D106, D109, D111, D112, D119, D120, D122, D124, D128, D136, D149, D184), 2015 - 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
and Child (Cat. 131), 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
5’ 1”, 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
100, 2015
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (A looter wheels a shopping cart full of diapers), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Aftermath), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Protesters after the verdict), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Korean Merchants on the Rooftop), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (A woman runs out of store), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (A man flees from a looted sporting goods store at Vermont Ave and 1st St), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Sorry we’re empty), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (This is for Rodney King), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (La Revolucion es la solucion!), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Owner of Payless Market throws a bucket of water on the flames at neighboring business Ace Glass), 2017
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (William Yang_The Morning After_1976), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Alvin Baltrop_Untitled_from The Piers series_late 1970s), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (David Wojnarowicz by Peter Hujar_1983), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Peter Hujar_Blanket on a chair_1983), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Martin Wong by Peter Bellamy_1985), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Leonard Fink_Pier 48 Interior_1980), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Robert Mapplethorpe_Self Portrait_1978), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Isaac Julien_Film Noir Staircase_1987), 2016
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Goh Choo San 2), 2018
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Goh Choo San 2), 2018
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (List), 2018
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Untitled (Shawn McQuate 1), 1980), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Younger Sister, Older Brother, 1980s), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi wearing a “SLUTFORART” t-shirt), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 1985), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Bordeaux, France, 1985), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (VISITOR, SLUTFORART, PERMANENT VISITOR), 2021
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Untitled (Shawn McQuate 2), 1980), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Buffalo), 1988-89), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz in Bed, 1983), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar's Hand, 1988), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar's Feet, 1988), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Lake Moraine,Canada_Canoe Mountain, Alberta, 1986), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Kamakura, Japan (Buddha), 1988), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Peter Hujar, Hudson River 3, 1975), 2020
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Kang Seung Lee
Untitled (Peter Hujar, Hudson River 4, 1976), 2020
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