Education
2005 M.F.A.-Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD, USA
2003 Post Baccalaureate Program, Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
2002 B.F.A-Studio, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, USA
Solo Exhibition
2021 “A memory’s journey”, Noblesse Collection, Seoul
2019 “Walking into a memory”, Gana Art gallery- Hannam, Seoul, South Korea
2017 “Reminiscence”, Invitational solo exhibition, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea
2013 SUNGMI LEE: Empty to Be Filled, Doosan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012 Empty to be filled, Gana Art center, Seoul, South Korea
Young Sculptor of Today, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2010 “Behind My Door”, Gana Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007 “Evanescence”, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
2006 “The Space Between”, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform, DMZ, Uni-Maru, Paju, Ministry of Unification, Inter-Korean Transit Office
Tomorrow’s exhibition ⟨Drag and Draw⟩, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Holding the memory, Sueno 339, Seoul
2020 Art of Love, Total Museum of Contemporary art, Seoul
0n-tact, mica kaa 2020 exhibition, art space connection, Seoul
Dear O, Space OOOJH, Seoul
2018 The show must go on, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
APMAP 2018, Amore pacific Museum of Art, Jeju Osulloc tea museum,
Jeju Island, South Korea
2017 New Permanent Collection Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Sulwha Cultural Exhibition: A fairy tale and a woodcutter, Amore pacific Museum of Art,
Sulwhasoo Flagship Store, Seoul,South Korea
2016 Mindful mindless, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul,South Korea
2015 Artist file 2015: Next doors, Museum of Modern and contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
Artist file 2015, The National Art center, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “The Breath of Fresh”, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ahn-san, South Korea
2011 The Echo of Disappearance, two-person show, Kang Collection, NYC, USA
The Downtown Dinner 2011, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC,USA
2010 “Floating World”, LMCC Arts center, NY, NY,USA
“Plus One”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NYC, USA
2009 “2012+”, THE DROP Urban Arts Infill, NYC, USA
ArtPrize , The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
“Luck of The Draw”, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, USA
“Forever Summer”, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Platform Space, NYC, USA
“Small is the New Big”, SCOPE International Art Fair/New York, New York, USA
“LATITUDE”, Curated by Nico Wheadon, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, USA
2008 “Color/No Color”, Asian Contemporary group show, Onishi gallery, NYC, USA
“The ART In Embassies Program”, Curated by Virginia Shore, Seoul, S. Korea
“WYSIWYG”, Curated by Chris Lew from P.S. 1/MOMA, Jenny Jaskey/ Tower Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
“183rdAnnual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, National Academy Museum,
New York, NY, USA
“Aljira’s Emerge 9”, Curated by Chris Lew from P.S. 1/MOMA, A center for Contemporary Art,
Newark NJ, USA
2007 “Summer Show”, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
“Marquee Ball Annual Art Auction (Invitational)”, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD, USA
“Silent auction (Invitational) for Twentieth Anniversary Masked Ball”,
Curated by Franklin Sirmans, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
“Agents of Change: Women, Art, and Intellect”, The nation-wide Feminist Art Project,
Curated by Leslie King Hammond and installed by Lowery Sims, Ceres Gallery, NYC, USA
2006 “Maryland Art Place’s 25thAnniversary”, Baltimore, MD, USA
“Bringing up”, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY, USA
“Bearable Lightness…Likeness”, Curated by Franklin Sirmans,
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA, Long Island city, NY, USA
“Gallery 10 Sculpture Invitational”, Gallery 10 LTD, Washington, DC, USA
2005 “Washington Square Sculpture Invitational”, Washington Square, Washington, DC, USA
“Gallery Korea Exhibition”, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC, USA
“24th annual Montpelier Invitational sculpture Exhibition”, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD, USA
2004 “(In) visible Silence”, Guest Juror-Sanford Biggers, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
“Surplus: Construction”, Area405 Gallery, Artscape’ 04 Festival for the Arts, Baltimore, MD, USA
“Our Perfect World”, Maryland Art Place (MAP), Artscape, Baltimore, MD, USA
2003 “10”, Fox 3 Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
“23 point of perspective”, Fox 3 Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Awards and Residencies
2019 Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
2014 Artist Grant from Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi, South Korea
2012 Young Sculptor of Today, Kim Chong Yung Museum,Seoul, South Korea
2010 Swing Space / LMCC, New York, New York, USA
2009 The MacDowell Colony, Visual Art Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, USA
2008 S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award, National Academy Museum, NY, NY, USA
2007 Aljira Emerge 9 Fellowship, Aljira A Center For Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, USA
2006 The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NYC, USA
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Visual Art Fellowship/ Studio Residency, Johnson, VT, USA
Amalie Rothchild Award, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Walters Traveling Fellowship Award-Honorable Mention, Guest Juror-Wise Chauluka,
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003 Rinehart Merit scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Post baccalaureate Merit scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art,Baltimore, MD
Cum laude, and Distinction in the field, Emmanuel College,Boston, MA
Collections
Seoul Museum of Art
Doosan Collection
Seoul Royal Hotel
The Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry
RCHN Community Health Foundation, Inc. New York, NY, USA
Biography