In Copper and Bone, Lee brings together a series of mixed-media sculptures reflecting intersections of natural and built environments. Discarded electronic components are paired with geologic minerals—materials extracted to drive technological advancement—creating a dialogue between progress and its environmental toll. White plaster structures, reminiscent of scaffolding, both frame and obscure these elements, evoking the impermanence of construction and the complexities of development. Lee reflects, “Moving across the land, images and sensations developed into a reflection on the wounded landscape, considering cultural memory, development narratives, and future ecology.” Through her combinations of industrial remnants and natural materials, Copper and Bone invites viewers to contemplate the intricate connections between humanity’s pursuit of progress and the landscapes left in its wake.

"I began sensing varying speeds and rhythms while living between cultures over the years, urban and rural."

Read the interview here

Read the interview here

Artists Sandra Eula Lee and Kristen Neville Taylor, along with curator Heather Moqtaderi, met to discuss Lee’s exhibition The Walking Mountain at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The conversation was recorded, transcribed and edited for clarity. The exhibition is on view through May 25, 2024. This interview was conducted in partnership with Past Present, a bi-annual journal of artistic practices, and will appear in Issue 5 in August 2024.

The Walking Mountain, curated by Mark Stockton and Heather Moqtaderi

The Walking Mountain continues-- the drawings and ten other works are traveling to Philly for a new installation. It's a beautiful industrial space just minutes from the ICA and train station. Opening reception is Thurs April 11, 5-7:30pm. Presented as part of the Philadelphia re(FOCUS) Festival, recognizing women artists.

...A Korean-American artist and daughter of immigrants, Lee’s exhibition centers on Portable Pond, a large installation referencing East Asian gardens, which traditionally provide a central reflective space to mirror back the view. Other works complement the “pond” in mixed media materials drawn from the confluence of the constructed and natural environments. In Seeds in a Wild Garden for example, Lee reflects on living and working in Seoul and Beijing, where she observed mountains of building materials accumulated as buildings were demolished. Yet occupying spaces in between were impromptu gardens created by neighborhood residents, signaling care and resilience...

The Walking Mountain, curated by Kristen Evangelista

...This exhibition showcases selections from The Walking Mountain series, which primarily consists of over 80 drawings created since 2014...Lee’s varied compositions feature meticulous mounds of rocks, outlines of rock formations, and geometric shapes with radiating lines. Lee was inspired to create these drawings after encountering piles of stones in the mountains of South Korea, while she was living in Seoul. She explains, “I [saw] this form repeated in daily life–piles of rubble from demolished buildings, piles of brick and concrete waiting to be used for construction, simultaneous states of orientation, deterioration and becoming...

Opening Reception: Friday September 29 alongside concurrent solo exhibitions by Elana Herzog and Samanta Batra

Had a fantastic time as Visiting Artist, Critic and Panelist:

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY: Visiting Artist in Andrea Bell's course 'Ecology, Activism, and the Image of Nature'

Parsons, The New School, NYC: Visiting Critic in Selena Kimball's course 'Advanced Projects in 2D'

College Art Association, NYC: Panel on Cultivating Reflective Space with Digital Tools, chaired by Chung-Fan Chang

Three works available at Peepspace, a fantastic artist-run space. They include relief print on paper, and stitching on Korean fabric. All works in the flatfile are $500 each.

The source of these drawings was a pile of stones I encountered in the mountains of South Korea, a familiar sight in the rural landscape. I see this form repeated in daily life--piles of rubble from demolished buildings, piles of brick and concrete waiting to be used for construction, simultaneous states of orientation, deterioration and becoming. The group includes over 80 drawings to date, which I've exhibited at The Phillips Museum of Art, the Martin Art Gallery, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and Inside-Out Museum in Beijing. The title is inspired by Dogen’s Mountain and Waters sutra.

Open the web version here
Issue on change + transformation: Featuring Abraham Cruzvillegas, Julia Crabtree & William Evans, Niamh O'Malley, Liz Larner, Marianne Berenhaut
Edited by Twylene Moyer

I've been added to the Archive, a project of the AHL Foundation, NYC
See my page here and the archive here

Group Exhibition curated by Lu Solano, featuring my work alongside artists in residence from Brazil, Poland, France, Belgium, and Switzerland
May 25-June 15, 2022

See the video trailer here
Pictured Above: Day in/out, stack of work shirt sleeves made with hand and machine stitching. I created each sleeve from a single sheet of office paper, folded and stitched, featuring hand-drawn patterns, and buttons; cast concrete

Feminism and the work of women artists for generations have presented distinct perspectives regarding the environment, inviting a more respectful coexistence with our natural surroundings and the resources and wisdom they offer. These concerns are ever more relevant today in the context of the crisis of climate change and the urgent need for alternatives to economic and political models based on the exploitation of both natural and human resources.

In this roundtable, three artists participating in “Off the Cloth”-- Eva Petrič, Isolde Kille, and Sandra Eula Lee--will address the ways in which their work takes up concerns with nature and the environment, and the ways in which this focus is tied to issues of gender and transdisciplinarity. The panel will be moderated by Karen Cordero Reiman, co-curator of “Off the Cloth”, and a scholar of feminist art and theory. The event will also feature Eva Petrič's video-performance "On the Day of my Birth" created for World Water Day 2022 in Dubai.

Exodus VIII: Off the Cloth
March 25 – May 4, 2022

The Road Less Traveled was reviewed in WhiteHot Magazine by Anthony Haden-Guest, see here

The show will present an intergenerational dialogue between thirteen women artists whose work refers to their transcultural heritage through the use of or reference to textiles as material and metaphor. The goal of the exhibit is to establish a sense of communion between the artists’ practice and the audience’s sense of identity, as a consequence of shared cultural, gender-bound or social experiences. Off the Cloth will also include panel discussions with the artists, performances and other activities that will contribute to an active interchange with the community.

These artists use aesthetics as the ultimate weapon of political resistance in the face of a fragile and tumultuous world, stitching together our differences. In their work, textiles, combined with other disciplines and media, become a vehicle or reference point for exuberant narratives. The selection highlights the diversity of the participants’ cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and engages in and broadens the timeless dialogue between craft and art. Women’s artistic deployment of skills such as sewing, knitting, and weaving, that are traditionally relegated to the status of domestic craft and separated from “high art”, are celebrated and embraced here without condition.

Slow Burn
February 1-April 28, 2022

Featured in ArtDaily, see here

Catalog with essays by Karen Patterson, Curator at the Fabric Museum and Workshop in Philadelphia, and Christopher Bennett, Associate Professor of Art History at UL Lafayette

A Map is Not the Territory
Sept 9-Oct 30, 2021

Catalog with essays by Paul Nicholson, Martin Art Gallery Director and Kristen Hileman, Former Head of Contemporary at the Baltimore Museum of Art and inaugural Curator-in-Residence at the Delaware Contemporary

Voices and Visionaries, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia
Oct 29-Jan 17
Curated by Philadelphia Sculptors
Syd Carpenter, Eiko Fan, Lucia Garzon, Mei Ling Hom, Sandra Eula Lee, Taji Ra'oof Nahl, Jermaine Ollivierre, Henryk Tomassini, Clifford Ward

Mobilizing the Landscape, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, New Hampshire
Sept 9-Dec 17, 2021
Curated by Emily Noelle Lambert
Barry Hazard, Claudia Peña Salinas, Eric Aho, Erika Ranee, Fei Li, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, James Kao, Kristen Schiele, Letha Wilson, Maureen Cavanaugh, Paula Wilson, Sandra Eula Lee, Virginia Inés Vergara, Zachary Fabri

Conference Web Site, UNC Charlotte College of Arts and Architecture

MAKE/SHIFT: IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS

Brittany Webb is the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

James Claiborne is the Public Programming Manager for the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

Carolina Kitagawa
Sandra Eula Lee
Monika Plioplyte
Nirmal Raja
Kathryn Shriver
Anders Zanichkowsky

Selected for the Curator's Award by Kristen Hileman and Leslie Shaffer

Ken Biedler, Ava Blitz, Agathe Bouton, Caroline Brown, Susan Casey, Andrew Chalfen, Delna Dastur, Phoebe Grace, Cat Gunn, Nanci Hersh, Sarah Hunter, Sandra Lee, George Lorio, Maeve McCool, Kathran Siegel, and Renqian Yang.

Curated by Jamie Martinez
with Cecile Chong and Snow Yunxue Fu

Above: Gypsum, bismuth, and sulphur, welded base, chicken wire

Curated by Courtney Puckett and Colin O'Con
EXHIBITION LINK

Nicole Antebi, Sandra Eula Lee, Matt Frieburghaus, Laura Kaufman, Ashley Lyon, Ian McMahon, Jason Mitcham, Patrick Paine, Lisa Schilling, Katie Shulman, Elisa Soliven, Christina Tenaglia, Gabriela Vainsencher, Patrice Renee Washington

Amy Brener, Rachel Klinghoffer, Sandra Eula Lee, Chris Mahonski, Aurora Robson, Paul Simmons, Jessie Unterhalter & Katey Truhn, Agustina Woodgate, Dustin Yellin

Exhibition Link

Article Link: Discover Jersey Arts, by Shen Shellenberger

Above: The Walking Mountain, 7x7", 53 pages, Edition of 3

Exhibition Link

Group exhibition and museum publication
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September 13-November 15, 2015
Curated by Tang Zehui
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December 13-March 1, 2014
Curated by Tomas Vu and Yuan Zuo
Exhibition Link

Albert Weaver, Buckminster Fuller, Tuguldur, Yondonjamts, Tomas Vu, Beka Goedde, Hanneline Rogeberg, Valerie Hammond, Feng Lianghong, Gregory Amenoff, Mark Dion, Eric Ramos Guerrero, Yun-fei Ji, William Kentridge, Emily Henretta, Ghada Amer, Gandalf Gavan & Jack Warren, Sandra Eula Lee, Alyssa Piro, David Altmejd, Mark Perlman, Fred Liang, Yuan Shun, Yuan Yunfu, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Daniel Touff, Megan Foster, Luis Silva, Lisa Sigal, Corey Riddell, Richard Ryan, Benjamin Zawalich, Brian Novatny, Predrag Dimitrijevic, Aurelien Couput, Tammy Nguyen, Bruno Pogacnik, Jennifer Nuss, Kurt Kemp, Riaki Enyama, Jesse Weisse, Peter Wayne Lewis, Shahar Yahalom, Sarah Sze, Yuan Zuo,Nicola Lopez, Paula Wilson, Chris Jehly, Kayla Mohammadi, Hedya Klein, Jessica Segall, Sam Messer, Jen Sturgill, Miguel Cardenas, LeRoy Neiman, Kambui Olujimi, Cecily Brown, Nathan Catlin, Kiki Smith, Sanford Biggers

Dien Aye, Karin Häll, Petra Koch, Sandra Eula Lee, Paula Ross, Bignia Wehrli
October 20-November 11
Nordbahnstrasse 10, 13409 Berlin
Exhibition Link

An article on my project at Pool: magazyn

HomeBase Project Exhibits at VOLTA New York Booth #P-02
March 8 - 11, 2012
Adrian Brun (Argentina/Netherlands/ HB co-curator), Peter Dudek (Poland / HB I), Bas Kools (Netherlands / HB Team), Sandra Eula Lee (USA/China / HB VI), Anat Litwin (Israel/USA / HB founder), Antonia Low ( Germany / HB V), Loudwing van Ludens (Luxemburg / HB BUILD II), Matthias Neumann (Germany / HB II), Shony Rivnay ( Israel / HB BUILD II), Abby Robinson (USA / HB VI), Adi Shnidermann (Israel / HB I), Merav Ezer Shniderman (Israel / HB I), Edouard Steinhauer (Haiti / USA / HB V), Jennifer Moronr (USA / HB V)

Curated by Jin Hwang and Hyewon Yi with catalogue essay by Linda Norden (See PRESS link)
Art Gate Gallery

Panelists: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dongyeon Koh

www.greenpointnews.com/entertainment/36…
August 5 - September 18, 2011
Curated by Ginger Cofield, Lauren Haynes, and Sarah Thompson
With Sami Ben Larbi, Robin Cameron, Sophie Beatrice Grant, Langdon Graves, Charles Koegel, Sandra Eula Lee, Theresa Marchetta, Alisa Ochoa, Julie Quon, MiYoung Sohn, and Adam Taye

The house at 196 Guernsey Street was constructed as a multi-family home for the workers of the USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship that was used in the Civil War, built on the East River in Greenpoint in the early 1860s. The most recorded event in the history of the home was the 1904 fire on the East River on the passenger ship General Slocum, which killed over 1200 people. One of the few hundred survivors was a resident at 196 Guernsey who lost nine family members in the disaster. The house has been a residence for both multi-families and single families over the past century and a half and has undergone - and continues to undergo - considerable renovations. Traces of the original interior architecture are evident in some areas, such as the entry-level closet space where Sami Ben Larbi’s work is installed.

196 GUERNSEY is curated by Ginger Cofield, Lauren Haynes and Sarah Thompson.

June 4-July 24, 2011
Curated by Karen Shaw with Rob Carter, Emily Feinstein, Chuyen Huynh, Olivia Kaufman, Jongil Ma, and Junko Sugimoto
Islip Art Museum

March 8-June 5, 2011
PRESS:
Time Out New York Critic's Pick
Interview with Artslope
Culturecatch
Yahoo Network
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
World Journal|
Korea Times
Asian Cultural Council Featured Artist

I was selected to participate in this workshop with Creative Capital

February 19-March 19
Feature on trendbeheer.com
Celebrating the opening of
CEAC's new space!
Group exhibition with works by Klitsa Antoniou, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Li Yang, Marlene Dumas, Huang Xiaoqin, Ronny Delrue, G.J. de Rook, Cecile van der Heiden, Yun-fei Ji, Kan Xuan, Pieter Holstein, Mira Sanders, Jia Zhixing, Zeng Huanguang, Collette Hosmer, Chloe Morrison, Qin Jian, Jonas Ohlsson & Jennifer Tee

Exhibition slated for March 2011

Featured artist in the ScopeMIAMI catalogue

Haixiadaobao daily newspaper
Haixiashenghuo News
Xiamen Commerce Newspaper
Blog and photos posted by Gerrit Jan de Rook

CultureCatch

10 December-25 December 2010
CEAC press release and images

November 30-December 5, 2010

DADA POST
Booth A10
Nordbahnstrasse 10
13409 Berlin
Germany

Exhibiting Artists:
Anders Hellsten Nissen
Sandra Eula Lee
Sebastian Mejia
Youn Hee Yang
Howard McCalebb
Sadie Weis

Location:
The SCOPE Miami Pavilion
The Miami Midtown Arts District
Midtown Boulevard (NE 1st Avenue)
between NE 30th & 31st St

The Social Sphere and the Post-Economic Landscape
November 13-December 31st, 2010
Opening: Friday, November 12, 6-8pm
Curated by Darren Jones / The Phenomena Project
ArtCat

I'm now at CEAC for a 3-month residency in Xiamen, China with a solo exhibition scheduled for December 2010.
See "Portfolio", "2010" for more info and a couple pics--
October-December, 2010

October 3, 2010
Pool

Concrete garden
September 1-12, 2010
Opening September 2, 6pm
neolook.net/archives/20100904g
www.akive.org/space/exhibitInfoView.do?…
SeMA

Residence Parade
September 3-26, 2010
IAP

September 2010
Ewha University

July 3-31, 2010
neolook.net/archives/20100704b
Cafe Daum
Curated by Arlupin

May-September, 2010
seoulmoa.seoul.go.kr/global/information…

January-March, 2011
BBG

January 2010
Exhibition at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai, India

"Artists express their visions of home" by John Zeaman, December 27, 2009 (image)
North Jersey Arts
New York Times

Department of Design, Cheonan, Korea
December 2009

October 30-December 14
Curated by Jackie Klempay
Opening: Friday, October 30, 7-9pm
Nurture Art

October 23-25, 2009
Artist Talk, Saturday, October 24, 2pm
Goyang

September 5 - October 10
Curated by Howard McCalebb
Opens September 5, 2009
Dada Post

Wolgan Misul, September issue (image)

July 25-September 26, 2009
Curated by Sara Reisman
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 25, 2-5pm
Aljira

Organized by Alternative Space Loop
Opening: August 18, 2009
Gallery Loop
Dukwon Gallery

July 8-August 16, 2009
Curated by Eun-Young Choi
Opening Reception: July 10, 7-9pm
Gallery Satori

New York Times

American Artists and Museum Professionals in Asia Fellowship Program
Support for travel and research in North and South Korea
ACC

The National Art Studio Goyang
May-November 2009
Goyang
NMoCA

Curated by Elizabeth Duffy & Brian Miller
March 8-April 30, 2009
RAC

Winter Space, NY
Curated by Anna Lise Jensen

The first show at Winter Space, A Lot of Possibilities, is curated by Host and
mirrors one room’s view of a communal garden. This formerly abandoned private lot was taken over by the City and neglected until locals decided to organize and turn it into a garden. The work of the participating artists represent various aspects of the garden's and are presented in the exhibition's interior “lots."

Curated by Eun Young Choi
March 7-March 29, 2009
Lumenhouse, Brooklyn
Anaba

The Greenwall Foundation helped fund The Book of Stamps. Here they have a great excerpt of the text by George Pendle and a few large file images of the stamp designs, including the one I contributed

From the stamp experiments of Fluxus mail artists like Robert Watts to fantasy stamps issued by fictional countries, this humble canvas has been home to all manner of free expression. The Book of Stamps is at once an homage to and continuation of this tradition.

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: Postmasters Gallery, Sat Sept. 13th, 6:30-8:30pm
Available through D.A.P. and through Cabinet Magazine

Walead Beshty, Melissa Brown, Dubbin & Davidson, Spencer Finch, Car Michael von Hausswolff & Leif Elggren, Jonathan Herder, Mikhail Iliatov, Emily Jacir, Julia Jacquette, Vandana Jain, Sandra Eula Lee, Line Up, Frank Magnotta, Michael Oatman, David Shrigley