Date: Oct. 29

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: CalArts Campus; A207

About:

A Community of Artists: The Lives and Afterlives of CalArts series presents Kang Seung Lee, Art alumnus, on Millie Wilson and a queer history of CalArts.

A visiting artist and scholar series exploring the history and influence of CalArts from 1969 to the present.

*Co-presented by the School of Art Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics

Poster for a CalArts visiting artist and scholar lecture on “The Lives and Afterlives of CalArts,” Thursday, October 29, at 4:30 p.m. in A207 and online.

Kang Seung Lee is a Korean artist living in Los Angeles. Working across drawing, embroidery, video, sculpture, and installation, Lee’s work frequently engages the legacy of transnational queer histories, particularly as they intersect with art history. His work has been presented in international exhibitions, including Singapore Biennale (2025), 60th Venice Biennale (2024), New Museum Triennial (2021), and Gwangju Biennale (2021). He also participated in Made in L.A. at Hammer Museum (2023). Recent institutional solo exhibitions have been held at MASP, São Paulo (2024), and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023). Lee’s work is in the collections of Hammer Museum, LACMA, MASP, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. A survey exhibition of Lee’s recent works, featuring a site-specific commission, will open at South London Gallery in December 2026.