About

As an artist, Kang Seung Lee has challenged the mainstream historical narrative and its focus on a First World white male heterosexual narrative, creating artwork that visualizes minorities who are forgotten or excluded in that narrative. While producing his work, Lee has been a historian of sorts, tenaciously scouring public and private archives such as art and craft collections, art college libraries, and the collections of LGBTQ groups. In his exploration process, he rediscovers material about historical events (AIDS epidemic, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising) and figures (including artists …