Born 1981 in Seoul, South Korea, lives and works in New York City.
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Education
2012 MFA in Combined Media, Hunter College, NY
2003 AB History of Art and Architecture cum laude, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Exhibitions and Performances
2021 Aurora Performance Biennial, Dallas, TX
2021 Light White, International Waters, Brooklyn, NY
2020 TedTalks iChicken, “MoMA Downtown”, New York, NY
2020 Freeport: Kim Jong Un Liberation Art, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY
2019 Kim Jong Un: Spring Awakening on the Pacific Rim, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Popular Revolt, iRAPE : Ted Kavanaugh SoulCycle Instructor, NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY
2018 Intolerable Whiteness, performance, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2018 On Whiteness, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2018 Kim Jong Un presents Global World Karaoke Championships: Millennial Survivor with Spencer Sweeney, Kembra Pfahler, and Urs Fischer, Performance Program, NADA NY, New York, NY
2018 #themalso?, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
2018 Kim Jong Un presents Global World Karaoke Championships: Impending Nuclear Annihilation, Honeys, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Full Disclosure: A History of Personal Racial Macro and Microaggressions, Highline, New York, NY
2017 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to Internally Smash the Patriarchy, Racism, Ageism, Classism, & Bad Manners to Win Friends, $etc. Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Workout Prototype for an anti-racist, classist, misogynist, Woke New World, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Informed Consent Dual Agency Open House Karaoke, More Art, New York, NY
2016 Price of Admission: Let’s Not Gentrify Chinatown, But Say We Did?, Essex Flowers, New York, NY 2015 Memory Palace, Alisa Baremboym and Seung-Min Lee, Luxembourg and Dayan, New York
2015 Women, Inc. Artists Space, New York
2015 On Discipline, Regina Rex, New York (curated by Carmen Winant)
2015 End Of The Night Café II, Kim Jong Un Hacks Chipotle David Lewis Gallery, New York (curated by Charles Mayton and Lucas Knipscher)
2015 Sing’s Millennium Mart, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
2014 Don’t Forget To Make A left Turn At Albuquerque, Primetime, Brooklyn, NY
2013 TedTalks iTurkey, SVA Theatre, New York
2013 CKTV, 2012, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2012 CKTV, 2012, Brooklyn Pavilion, Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai, China
PRESS
2021 Peter Brock, Seung-Min Lee's Light White, Art Agenda E-flux
2019 Seung-Min Lee, Consumer Reports, ArtNews
2018 Andrea K Scott, Goings On About Town, On Whiteness, The New Yorker, August 3-17, 2018
2018 Ryan Wong, How To Talk About Whiteness, Hyperallergic
2018 The Editors of Art News, 9 Art Events In NYC To Attend This Weekend, ARTNEWS
2018 Sarah Wang, Karaoke with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, VIDA
2015 Elizabeth Patterson, Alisa Baremboym and Seung-Min Lee's Memory Palace, Visionaire World 2015 Martha Schwendener, “Art in Review: Sing’s Millennium Mart,” New York Times, January 30th, 2015. C30
2015 Cecilia Salama, “What Does the Corner Deli of The Future Look Like?,” Opening Ceremony Blog 2014 Kevin McGarry, “Seung-Min Lee: In Profile,” Crane.tv
2012 Dis Magazine, “Discover: Sing Le No More,” dismagazine.com,
2005 "Seung-Min Lee," Interview Magazine, October, 2005
Awards/Honors
2019 Ford Foundation Center For Social Justice Collection
2019 Foundation ForContemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2018 Robert Blackburn Workshop Publication and Performance Commission
2014-5 Franklin Furnace Fund Award Recipient, New York, NY
2003 Harvard-Radcliffe College Arts Fellowship, Cambridge, MA