1 of 5 Stephanie S. Lee Email Website [email protected] www.stephanieslee.com www.koreanfolkart.org www.garageartcenter.org
Education 2018 Master of Science, Pratt Institute, NY Major: Museums and Digital Culture with Distinction Advanced Certificate in Conservation & Digital Curation Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement
2011 Korean Traditional Folk Art Painting, Pusan National University, South Korea
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications Design, Pratt Institute, NY Major: Graphic Design Certificate of Excellence Award for Outstanding Merit in Graphic Design Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement President’s List 2000 & Dean’s List 1997 to 2000
Workshops & Teaching Experience
2021 Virtual Group Workshop: Minhwa, Korean Folk Art Workshop, Stonybrook University, Stonybrook, NY Virtual Group Workshop: Minhwa Coloring Workshop, KoreanFolkArt.org 2020 Group Workshop: Bring Your Own Korean Tiger Home, Touro College, Forest Hills, NY Group Workshop: Tiger & Magpie: Good Luck Painting from Korea, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY 2019 Group Workshop: Making a Korean Tiger Ornament, Korean Cultural Center DC (워싱턴 한국문화원) Public Talk: Introduction to Minhwa, Korean Cultural Center DC (워싱턴 한국문화원), Washington, D.C. Group Workshop: Make Your Own Minhwa Fan, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Group Workshop: Bring Your Own Korean Tiger Home, Touro College, New York, NY Public School Workshop: Tiger and Magpie, Northern Valley Regional High School, Dermarest, NJ Public School Workshop: Minhwa for the Lunar New Year, Northern Valley Regional High School, Old Tappan, NJ 2018 Panel Discussion: K-Wave: The State of Contemporary Korean Fashion, Art and Music, Newark Museum, NJ Public School Workshop: Rooster Coloring for the Lunar New Year, P.S. 150, Sunnyside, NY 2016 Group Workshop: Making my own Book bag with Korean Chaekgeori Painting, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University Group Workshop: 18th Century Tiger Painting, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont,NY Korean Folk Art Class Teacher, Manhattan Korean School, at The NYC Museum School, NY Family Workshop: Make Something for Mom, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY 2015 Public School Workshop: Korean Tiger & Magpie, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
Judging & Panelist Experiences
2021 Voting panelist for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs - Percent for Art (PS 41Q)
2019 Panelist for the 2020 Queens Arts Fund at Queens Council on the Arts
2018 Panel Discussion: K-Wave: The State of Contemporary Korean Fashion, Art and Music, Newark Museum, NJ
2016 The 26th Complex Medical Art Show at Weill Cornell Medical Library
The 40th Annual Children’s Art Contest at the Korean Times
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2014 The 36th Annual Children’s Art Contest at the Korean Times
2013 The 14th Annual Young Adult’s Art Contest at the Korean Times
The 35th Annual Children’s Art Contest at the Korean Times
Press & Publications Chung, Byungmo and Kim, Sunglim. “Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens”. Dahal Media, SUNY Press, 2017.
NY1 News Asia Week NBC News KOFICE 한국문화사업교류재단 The Wall Street Journal Radio 1660 News, 이슈로 만난 사람들 The New York Times Blasting News US Art Minhwa Magazine The Record Musee Magazine The Suffolk County News The Korean Times Examinor.com, Artist Spotlight Korea Daily Newspaper The World Ilbo Examinor.com, Artist Spotlight Mom & I Magazine TKC-The Korean Channel, TKC News Queens Ledger Newspaper Queens Chronicles News Rho NewYork Ilbo It’s Queens Flushing Fantastic medium.com S CASA magazine
Awards 2019 New Work Grant, The Queens Arts Fund (QAF), Queens Council on the Arts, New York Certificate of Commendation, County of Bergen, New Jersey Hornor & Recognition, Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, New Jersey
2018 Distinguished Achievement Certificate, Korean American Contemporary Arts, Ltd., New York
2015 Special Honor Prize, The Traditional Culture Arts Promotion Association, South Korea Winner, Call for Chelsea 2015, NY
2014 Artist Award for Exceptional Work, The 46th International Public Collection (新院展), Japan Special Honor Prize, Hyung Sang Fine Art Grand Conetst, South Korea New Artist Prize, The 36th International H.M.A. Art Festival, South Korea
2013 Three Distinguished Works Award, The Traditional Culture Arts Promotion Association, South Korea
2012 Special Honor Prize, Contemporary Women Fine Art Association, South Korea Prize of Selection, The Traditional Culture Arts Promotion Association, South Korea
Affiliations Founding Director of Garage Art Center, Inc. | www.garageartcenter.org Founder of Korean Folk Art Organization | www.koreanfolkart.org The Korean Folk Painting Association (Director of NY Office) 사단법인 한국민화협회 (뉴욕지부장) | www.folkpainting.net Curator of The Drawing Room New York | www.thedrawingroomnewyork.org 3 of 5
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Teaching Artist & Visual Arts Member at the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts | www.flushingtownhall.org The Godwin-Ternbach Museum | www.gtmuseum.org Member of the New York Society of Women Artists | www.newyorksocietyofwomenartists.com Artist member of the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center | www.edwardhopperhouse.org Marketing & Engagement Working Group at Queens Rising 2022
Solo Exhibitions 2019 Modern Virtue in Pigment & Ink, Closter Public Library, Closter, NJ 2016 Echoing Roar, Art Mora, Chelsea, NY 2016 Back to Circle, Piermont Public Library, Piermont, NY 2016 Books Vs. Pocket Books, Ridgewood Public Library, Ridgewood, NJ 2016 Roar, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY 2016 Artist of the Month - February, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY 2015 Wish, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
Selected Art Fairs
2017 K-MINAF, 제 1회 민화아트페어, SETEC 서울무역전시장, Seoul, South Korea 2017 Affordable Art Fair, The Metropolitan Pavillon, New York 2016 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong 2015 Affordable Art Fair, The Metropolitan Pavillon, New York, NY 2015 Scope New York Art Show, New York, NY 2014 Spectrum Miami Art Show, Miami, FL 2014 Affordable Art Fair, The Tunnel, New York, NY 2014 Shenzhen Internaional Art Fair, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China 2014 Fountain Art Fair - 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions 2021 Communicating Beyond Words, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY (forthcoming) Chaekgeori: Today, Centre Culturel Coréen 프랑스한국문화원, France (forthcoming) Minhwa: The Color of Korea, The Belskie Museum of Art, Closter, NJ (forthcoming)
Chaekgeori Today, Centro Cultural Coreano en España, Mádrid, Spain (forthcoming) Our Planet, Queens College Art Center, Queens College, Online exhibition, Flushing, NY (forthcoming) K-Art Recollection, The Korean Cultural Center DC 워싱턴 한국문화원, Washington, D.C. (forthcoming)
Women on the Edge of Time, Taller Boricua Gallery, Online exhibition , New York, NY Chaekgeori: Today, National Library of Korea 국립중앙도서관, Seoul, South Korea
Community Art Exhibition - Call and Response: Grief, Resiliency, and Hope, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Edward Hopper House Museum Artist Member Show, Online exhibition, Nyack, NY
Red Envelope Show, Online exhibition , Brooklyn, NY 4 of 5
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2020 Interweaving, Alfred Van Loen Gallery, South Huntington Public Library, NY Minhwa: Painting of the People (民 畫 백성의 그림), Zen Art Gallery, Catskill Zendo Monastery, Summitville, NY
Female Gender Identity and Equality, Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona College Arts Center, New Rochelle, NY Edward Hopper House Museum Artist Member Show, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY USPS Art Project, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020 Red Envelope Show, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA A Good Beginning, Here, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2019 Threads and Pigments, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY NJSeoul: New Art from the Korean Diaspora, Bergen Community College, NJ Visual Arts Members’ Exhibition, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Chaekgeori Today II, Indang Museum, Daegu, South Korea Recall, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY Between the Lines, Blue Mountan Gallery, Chelsea, NY Chaekgeori Today, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Korea Society of Exhibition Design Studies|KOSES 국제초대전, National Museum of Korea 국립중앙박물관, South Korea
Mono Prismatic Wave, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY LIC Arts Pop Up 2019, NYSWA & NLAPW group exhibition, Long Island City, NY Minhwa Gangsan(민화강산), Korean Artist & Artisan Gallery 한국문화정품관, Seoul, South Korea Edward Hopper House Artist Member’s Exhibition, Bell-ans Center of Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY 2019 Red Envelope Show, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2018 Insight in Sight, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY
Korea Society of Exhibition Design Studies| KOSES 국제초대전, National Museum of Korea 국립중앙박물관, South Korea Art & Soul, Prince Street Gallery, SOHO, NY East Meets West, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Archipelagos of the Creative Mind, Pratt Institute Library Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art As Sanctuary II, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ Parthibition, Space Ciel Gallery, Pompton Lakes, NJ Saehwa (세화전), Gallery IS, Seoul, South Korea Visual Art Member’s Annual Group Exhibition, The Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2017 Queens: Envisioning Habitats, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Evolving, The Korean Cultural Center DC 워싱턴 한국문화원, Washington, D.C. Dynamic Dimensions, Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ City Bites III, Alessandro Berni Gallery, Chelsea, NY Korea Society of Color & Form 한국색채조형학회 국제전, Busan Art Center 부산예술회관, Busan, South Korea Going Places, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
Five Person Exhibition, 빛맑은 바람 전-박물관 수 별관오픈전, Museum Soo, Daegu, South Korea Multi-Lane II, Demouzy Contemporary Gallery, Rockville Center, New York Five Person Exhibition, 현대민화의 길을 찾다-월간민화 창간 3주년 기념 특별전, 나락실갤러리, Seoul, South Korea Saehwa (세화전 - 안녕, 당신을 위한 새해 인사), Gallery Hanok, Seoul, South Korea 5 of 5
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2016 The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook Univ., NY The Primacy of Color, George Bills Gallery, Chelsea, NY Aspects: Works by Korean Artists in America, Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts, Western Kentucky University, KY Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu Expo Convention Center, South Korea Suwon Hwasung Project(수원 화성 프로젝트), Complex Art Space Haenggungjae 복합문화공간 행궁재, South Korea Syncretized, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY 2016 3 Generations, Palidades Park Public Library, NJ
2015 Yeon Mal Yeon Si (연말연시전), Nabi Museum of the Arts, Teaneck, NJ Call for Chelsea, (Re) envisioning art’s aura in the age of turbo-capitalism, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro, Chelsea, NY Solstice, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Pieromnt, NY KACAL16, Hutchins Gallery, Brookville, NY Re-illumination, SIA NY gallery, Chelsea, NY Heart - Center of Life, Weil Cornell Medical College Samuel J. Wood Library, New York, NY Replenished, Hutchins Gallery, Brookville, NY Happy Minhwa (행복한 우리민화전), Gallery Min, Pusan, South Korea
Who am I? What do you see?, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Common Interests, Nabi Museum of the Arts, Teaneck, NJ Youth Art Award & Invitational Art Exhibition, Jersey City City Hall, NJ Size Matters - Small but Significant Works, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, NY 20 Artists, Piermont Flywheel Gallery, NY
2014 Inernational Public Collection (新院展), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Happiness through Minhwa (꿈과 행복으로 소통하는 아름다운 우리 그림), Gyeonggi Provincial Museum 경기도미술관, Gyeonggi, South Korea Emerging Scape, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Nature within Us, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY The 36th H.M.A. International Art Festival (H.M.A.국제 예술제), Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea Distinguished artist exhibition (2014 우수작가 신춘기획 초대전), Gallery La Mer, Seoul, South Korea Passion 15, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ Community Art Project, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2013 Winter Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY Happy Together, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Chelsea, NY Community Art Project, Yegam Art Space, Flushing, NY
The First Sextet, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ