Education
2021
Master of Fine Arts
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts
concentration in painting
Washington University in St. Louis
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Mess
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
2019
Good Fight
Insa Art Plaza Gallery, Seoul
2018
Oh, the things that I do out of spite
BINCAN gallery, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2024
Spring Break
Steve Turner gallery, Los Angeles
Killing me softly
Yiwei gallery, Los Angeles
2023
A Comfortable Violence
Blahblah gallery, Philadelphia
2021
Now and at the hour
HOT•BED, Philadelphia
Integral Influx
Rutgers University, Camden
Future Ecologies
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
Summerhouse
HOT•BED, Philadelphia
Graphic content
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia
Double Feature
icebox project space, Philadelphia
2019
12x12x12+Nature
Geumgaang Nature Art Center, Gongju
Freak, Seoul
Frottage Gallery, Seoul
Selected Artists Exhibit
Insa Art Plaza Gallery, Seoul
2018
SEEA 2018
Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam
Dark Room
BINCAN gallery, Seoul
Youth #3
CICA Museum, Gimpo
Korean Contemporary Artists Exhibit
Chosunilbo Museum, Seoul
Art Works Holiday
Atelier Gustave, Paris
New Thinking, New Art
LeeSeoul Gallery, Seoul
Coda
Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2017
For Play
Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Experience
Lecturer (2021 - )
University of Pennsylvania
- Drawing 1 - FNAR 123 201 (Spring 2021, SpRING 2023)
- Painting Practices - FNAR 231 401 (spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
Rutgers University, Camden
- Drawing 1 (Fall 2021)
PennPraxis Design Fellow
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021 | University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Assistant
Jul 2020 | University of Pennsylvania
Studio Assistant
for Andrea Hornick, Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
- Figure Painting (Jotham Malavé Maldonado)
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
- Drawing I (Rod Jones)
Jan 2020 - May 2020
- Hand-Drawn Animation (Joshua Mosley)
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Freelance Graphic Designer
2015 - Present
Freelance Visual Artist
2014 - Present
Collaboration
2022
DKNY X Tennis Collection
with The Handsome Corp.
2019
Eine Hörbare Austelung Young Composer Series
with Emsemble Sonor XXI Naru Culture & Arts Center, Seoul
Awards & Honors
2021
Illuminate the arts grant, The City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE)
2021 AAPI Artist Grant, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
Christopher Leland Lyons Memorial Fund Award, University of Pennsylvania
2020
Faculty Discretionary Award, University of Pennsylvania
2018
Eda. L and Clarence Cushing Prize, Washington University in St. Louis
2017
Eda. L and Clarence Cushing Prize, Washington University in St. Louis
2016
Work of Excellence (Two Dimensional Art), Naomi Winston Scholarship Competition
Publication
2021
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, “Hell Mural”
https://sachsarts.org/grant-awards/hell-mural/
Harvard Urban Review, “SICK SPACE”
https://harvardurbanreview.org/artwork-kay-lee/
Weitzman News, “Making art in a Pandemic: Kay (Seohyung) Lee”
https://www.design.upenn.edu/news/post/making-art-pandemic-kay-seohyung-lee
Penn Today, “Graduate student artists persevere during pandemic and find new inspiration”
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/graduate-student-artists-persevere-during-pandemic-and-find-new-inspiration
2020
Seoul Auction Blog, “공간에 대한 새로운 시선을 제시하는 작가, 이서형”
(An artist who presents a new perspective of space, Seohyung Lee)
https://blog.naver.com/s_auction/221951861043
2018
XMag Issue III: Spring 2018, “Body; Broken Things”
https://xmagwashu.weebly.com/body-broken-things.html
Feminist Consciousness by Maisie Heine
https://issuu.com/katiejehrlich/docs/feminist_consiousness_final_book_co
2017