- Sandra Eula Lee
SANDRA EULA LEE is a Korean American artist and educator whose work spans sculpture, installation, and drawing. The daughter of immigrants, her perspective is shaped by lived experiences across cultures, spanning both urban and rural contexts, with migration stories deeply informing her worldview. Through her work, she responds to the changing pace of built environments and their cyclical impermanence. Moving across the land, images and sensations gather into reflections on landscape--shaped by cultural memory, narratives of development, and future ecology.
Working through material transformation and process, she creates works that invite contemplation of how histories of labor, memory, and place are carried through form and gesture into the spaces of everyday life.
Lee is Associate Professor at Montclair State University, where she previously served as Head of Visual Arts. She formerly directed the Expanded Sculpture programs at Kenyon College and Franklin & Marshall College.
Her artwork has been featured internationally in solo exhibitions, including a 10-year survey at The Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, LA; Drexel University in Philadelphia; Oresman Gallery at Smith College; Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College; Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Art Space Pool in Seoul, South Korea; and CEAC in Xiamen, China.
Group exhibitions include Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College; Inside-Out Museum in Beijing; Incheon Art Platform in South Korea; DadaPost in Berlin; Goucher College in Baltimore; The Delaware Contemporary; Ethan Cohen KuBE; Smack Mellon in Brooklyn; The Border Project, WhiteBox, and Chashama in New York, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
Lee has presented artist talks and panel discussions at Smith College, WhiteBox, Phillips Museum of Art, Pace University, AHL Foundation, UL Lafayette, Parsons The New School, Art Space Pool (Seoul), Ewha University (Seoul), Alternative Space Loop (Seoul), Xiamen University (China), Tellus Art (Mumbai), and recently at New Jersey City University. Presentations on her teaching and pedagogical approach include College Art Association and FATE Infrastructure: UNC Charlotte College of Arts and Architecture.
She has been awarded grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and NJ State Council on the Arts, and residencies at Elizabeth Foundation (NYC), Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn), and Seoul Museum of Art, among others. She has an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY and a BFA from Cornell University School of Architecture, Art, and Planning.